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<blockquote data-quote="Rika" data-source="post: 3197712" data-attributes="member: 29100">Actually I think the better thing to be asking is how story driven are your games. Sure if you're characters can easily be replaced you're going to be more willing to kill them, but if the tone and story of the game would be seriously disrupted by a new character you'll be less likely too. That said our games are generally low character death, but the characters are tied very tightly to the central story. They are hard to replace. In that situation if I had to miss a game and came back to find out my character was dead, I'd be pissed. Now I have to figure out how to deal with the situation and work a new character in. That's not fair since I had no say in what happened. (Let's assume that raising the dead isn't a possibility.) I might even decide not to play in that game anymore. Now if I'm in a game where the characters are dropping like flies I might not care as much. Now given I won't really care about the game or the character either so . . .Oh! For the record we usually don't play without people, we have an Marvel game for when people can't make it. If we do play our main game without someone they get nothing in terms of xp and such and their character does pretty much nothing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rika, post: 3197712, member: 29100"] Actually I think the better thing to be asking is how story driven are your games. Sure if you're characters can easily be replaced you're going to be more willing to kill them, but if the tone and story of the game would be seriously disrupted by a new character you'll be less likely too. That said our games are generally low character death, but the characters are tied very tightly to the central story. They are hard to replace. In that situation if I had to miss a game and came back to find out my character was dead, I'd be pissed. Now I have to figure out how to deal with the situation and work a new character in. That's not fair since I had no say in what happened. (Let's assume that raising the dead isn't a possibility.) I might even decide not to play in that game anymore. Now if I'm in a game where the characters are dropping like flies I might not care as much. Now given I won't really care about the game or the character either so . . . Oh! For the record we usually don't play without people, we have an Marvel game for when people can't make it. If we do play our main game without someone they get nothing in terms of xp and such and their character does pretty much nothing. [/QUOTE]

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