Characters Dying and/or Killing Characters.

[Aries Bachen]

I my early days as a player I was shot in the face by a bounty hunter.This could of meant the end for my character, but the GM ultimately decided that I would live to fight another day. Ofcourse my character was horribly disfigured. This led to me wearing a mask and taking up a new identity.This I believe is much more interesting than simply killing off a character. A deabillitating or disfiguring injury can ad alot of personallity to a character. If the time comes for a character to make the final jump, so be it. As long as it is at the dramatically apropriet moment.

[TheDoctor]

[l0mathon]

In general I try not to kill my players unless they are really asking for it and/or ruining the game ... but even then I try to give them a warning or talking to first. When bad rolls end up with characters deaths, I am pretty blatant in asking if they want to spend character points and smile or nod or offer some other encouragement to keep spending until I am satisfied they won't die.

For one of my players, who has a good sense of humor and doesn't take the game as personally as some, I set up what I call 'The Bid Red Die of Fate' which as you might guess is a large red die that I roll to see if things for his way or not when the fit and the shan look like they are about to collide. He usually gets to pick even/odd or high/low and whether or not he is right determines how bad the bad stuff is that happens to him. Last night when we gamed he correctly guessed high and because it my groups Duros pilot with a very difficult first aid roll, a med pack, and some healthy swearing kept my players Jedi Mystic from fading away after he took two heavy blaster shots to the stomach. First shot took him to wounded thanks to his armor and character points, but the second shot took him well past mortally wounded. Since the group was in the top floor of an office tower and their ship's medical bay was too far away to get him to before he ran out of luck with the 2D rolls to see if he survives his time as mortally wounded, I let the pilot stabilize him long enough to get him to the medical bay of the ship. I like The Big Red Die of Fate!
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[TheDoctor]

I think it might make sense to let the dice kill the characters for the first few times in a beginning group, just so the players and the GM can get a feel for how lethal the SW Universe is.
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