Death of high level characters

Gronan of Simmerya · January 20, 2018, 01:24:39 PM

Quote from: S'mon;1020661I think losing a PC every session or so, or just "regularly", can be discouraging.

Depends. If you keep charging ogres with your 1st level PC, you're going to keep losing PCs.

Bren · January 20, 2018, 04:22:10 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1020777Depends. If you keep charging ogres with your 1st level PC, you're going to keep losing PCs.

How discouraging.

Gronan of Simmerya · January 20, 2018, 05:17:06 PM

Quote from: Bren;1020793How discouraging.

"Learn anything yet?"

S'mon · January 20, 2018, 07:34:52 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1020777Depends. If you keep charging ogres with your 1st level PC, you're going to keep losing PCs.

I had a GM who had an adventure all set up for our 1st level PCs.

GM: "Approaching the castle, you see the Ogres on the battlements."

Players: "We leave."

GM: ""

He really did expect us to attack an ogre fortress at 1st level. :rolleyes:

Gronan of Simmerya · January 20, 2018, 08:05:36 PM

I would have given you a couple hundred XP each for using your brains.

Did he say how he expected you to win?

S'mon · January 20, 2018, 08:29:56 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1020811I would have given you a couple hundred XP each for using your brains.

Did he say how he expected you to win?

I think he expected us to attack and kill the ogres (this was in 3.0 BTW where ogres do something like 2d8+7 per hit against 12 hp Fighter-1s). He seemed to have no concept of threat level. Later on we found he'd throw ridiculous overwhelming attacks at us then fudge massively to not kill us.

Gronan of Simmerya · January 20, 2018, 09:19:13 PM

Oh, okay. "Not familiar with the system" explains a lot.

Bren · January 21, 2018, 12:24:50 AM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1020798"Learn anything yet?"

Not yet.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1020818Oh, okay. "Not familiar with the system" explains a lot.

If only there were some sort of instruction manual he could read that explained the system.

RPGPundit · January 23, 2018, 10:02:21 PM

I know for sure that my PCs really hate those kinds of no-save situations that might kill off a high-level PC. But ultimately they more or less recognize the fairness of it.