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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6605718" data-attributes="member: 13107">Both Game of Thrones and the Walking Dead are curious examples.Both have large casts, and are quite gritty.&nbsp; One expects, in an extended post-zombie-holocaust story, for there to be many deaths, some quite random.&nbsp; I'd say there is a need for enough random misfortune, or the story wouldn't work, or wouldn't come off as fitting the defined scope.In other stories, a major character death could be quite a problem.A problem with there being many deaths is that you can end up with complete replacements of the party.&nbsp; Even in GoT and WD, there are characters remaining from the beginning of the story.&nbsp; I've found that players have a hard time of keeping with a story when they have cycled through all characters.&nbsp; The new characters gradually migrate away from the initial story, if there was one.In WD, at least, there is no danger of walking away from the primary plot, which is surviving zombies and the current theme of non-zombie danger (often just as bad).Thx!TomB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6605718, member: 13107"] Both Game of Thrones and the Walking Dead are curious examples. Both have large casts, and are quite gritty. One expects, in an extended post-zombie-holocaust story, for there to be many deaths, some quite random. I'd say there is a need for enough random misfortune, or the story wouldn't work, or wouldn't come off as fitting the defined scope. In other stories, a major character death could be quite a problem. A problem with there being many deaths is that you can end up with complete replacements of the party. Even in GoT and WD, there are characters remaining from the beginning of the story. I've found that players have a hard time of keeping with a story when they have cycled through all characters. The new characters gradually migrate away from the initial story, if there was one. In WD, at least, there is no danger of walking away from the primary plot, which is surviving zombies and the current theme of non-zombie danger (often just as bad). Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]

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