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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3202098" data-attributes="member: 198"><p>I think you're mixing up two very different things. I would say that without consequences the game is likely to lose its thrill. But dying is only one among a large number of possible consequences, and arguably the least long-term one of all. After all, once a PC is irrevocably dead, he's not being affected in any way.</p><p></p><p>As mentioned earlier in the thread, I've been running a game for nigh on 2 years (and, partly concurrently, ran one of the same duration earlier) where the use of action pts effectively takes death out of the equation. That has not made the campaign or combat in it any the less thrilling, mainly because there are still a very large number of consequences for defeat. And the regular presence of death wouldn't make things the least bit more thrilling, IMNSHO.</p><p></p><p>Remember - when a PC is permanently dead, that means you're not hurting him any more <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 3202098, member: 198"] I think you're mixing up two very different things. I would say that without consequences the game is likely to lose its thrill. But dying is only one among a large number of possible consequences, and arguably the least long-term one of all. After all, once a PC is irrevocably dead, he's not being affected in any way. As mentioned earlier in the thread, I've been running a game for nigh on 2 years (and, partly concurrently, ran one of the same duration earlier) where the use of action pts effectively takes death out of the equation. That has not made the campaign or combat in it any the less thrilling, mainly because there are still a very large number of consequences for defeat. And the regular presence of death wouldn't make things the least bit more thrilling, IMNSHO. Remember - when a PC is permanently dead, that means you're not hurting him any more :] [/QUOTE]
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