Off the wall player actions

garhkal · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject:

Wow... A tpk from a pair of ties that were thrown in for suspence. I know i let the dice fall where they may, but even i am not that cruel.
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Lostboy · Commander Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 384

That stikes me more as making the players deal with the consaquenses of your own stupidity.

Orion · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 16 May 2008 Posts: 146

Too me also, which is why I have a standard speech for all new players in my games. Part of it goes like this, "I run a deadly game, I have no problems killing your character. Having said that, understand that I am never out to kill the characters, but I will most certainly allow you to get your character killed."

Yak Face · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject:

It's a shame that TPK was involved, but players need experiences like that. They lose respect for the dangers of adventuring if they can blow off threats. Sometimes it's helpful if a PC gets whacked by a seemingly low-risk enemy - it maintains tension and makes them keep their heads. If it were a "real life" situation they would not have ignored the representatives of the Imperial establishment like that. It's only reasonable that they be blown up for their arrogance.
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garhkal · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject:

Chandra Mindarass · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

garhkal · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject:

The 'worst' death i have had, was when a trio of stormies shot a wookie player.. 2 had light repeaters and one a heavy pistol (taken from a knocked out pc). Between the 3 hitting, the damage was at the high side, 76, and at the low side 48. The wookie had 30 max for his 3 soaks even with character points.
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atgxtg · Rear Admiral Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 2460

For me, it was probably the time when one of the players didn't trust the rebel contact who supplied the group with a sample of the Empire's new biological weapon, and decided he wanted to open the container and "check it out" for himself.

madterryk · Cadet Joined: 20 Apr 2009 Posts: 7

I was running a mission for two friends, both experienced players. There was one jedi and a farghul explorer. They had flown to this planet to check for some jedi artifacts and the poor farghul got captured by a group of Stars NoVa Mercs that were targeting the Jedi. The mercs threatened to kill the Farghul if the jedi didnt surrender. The standoff went on for a littlebit and finally the Jedi player blurted out "He isn't gonna kill you ---". Well Quell Tepine (in a fit of game master irritation) shot the farghul in the head killing him on the spot. I intended just to seriously hurt and injure the guy but the player wouldn't spend more than two character points.

Well the Jedi learned his lesson and the players from that point on knew I would kill their characters. The jedi and others had a long campain hunting down the stars nova mercs after that.

I also had a player kidnap another players pet bird (Redbird the parrot) in the game, freeze the bird in carbonite, and kick it out of a freighter as a joke. This same guy also tried to get his picture taken with every unique looking alien in the game. I also am slightly ashamed of the absurdity of this particular mission, we were all very very drunk that night.

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