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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Takeda" data-source="post: 1309221" data-attributes="member: 6977">I have played Combat-Heavy GURPS games, ... but it was a do or die and we had the advantage of better armour and gear than most of the Picts that we were fighting.I've played LOWWWWWW-Tech, Looooowwwwwww Magic and Low-Level games at times.  I started the party as 0-level apprentices when their village was overrun by a goblin army, ... the palatable terror characters had knowing that they wouldn't survive even one hit was brilliant! ... The campaign went on a few levels of the party fighting a guerrilla (sp) war.  By the time they were 3rd level most of them had armour and a few superior quality weapons but nothing magical.I've played in games where the average player had 500,000 experience points!  That was AD&D of course, ... and it was silly in my opinion.  But that might have been the DM?!The 'Everyman Syndrome' appeals to me very strongly.  I am not interested in playing Bruce Wayne, King Arthur, Peter Parker, Conan.  I'd rather be 'The Mouse' (played masterfully by Mathew Broderick) in Ladyhawk or Christian Slater's character in Name of the Rose, the 'Wolverines' in Red Dawn, Rand in the Wheel of Time.  An otherwise ordinary or at least not extraordinary person in extraordinary circumstances.  Alternatively I like movies/books/graphic novels/etc. where someone is not 'quite' your average 'Joe Shmoe' but not the King's Champion either.  Having your character be the most notoriously dangerous duellist in the Empire can be droll after awhile unless you have a very good supporting cast and a great DM/Director/Screenwriter/Editor.Having someone who has some advantages and the potential to be a hero, yet still having to struggle in a gritty way to survive let alone shine as the Arthurian Knights of the Round Table did is more my thing.  "You have fought your way past the bandits that were trying to keep you away from the pallisade around the village.  You can feel the slick film of sweat all over your body and the sticky heat of blood on your face.  You don't know how much of the blood is yours as your head begins to pound.  The sword falls limply from your hand as your numbing fingers loose all strength.  You collapse to the ground unconscious." DM to player: Well fought.  You totally ran out of Vitality and you took a few minor Wounds aside from the Serious scalp Wound.  It is nasty and was bleeding badly as you were dragged over the all.  You have the sense that someone is pressing something firmly against the gash above the hairline as you fade to black.Player to DM: Wow!  That was brutal! ... Do I wake up eventually?  What do I see?!DM rolls dramatically!  ...  Etc.</blockquote>

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