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<blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2639552" data-attributes="member: 36150">A very dramatic scene which reads well, but I may have done a few things differently.1) I would have pulled the player aside earlier that session and asked him if he would be willing to die for the betterment of the story.&nbsp; Assure him that Resurrection would be available and other than the humiliating bone-fragmenting head shot, no real damage would happen to his chatacter.&nbsp; This way, the PC is expecting the shot but the OTHERS aren't, which gives the DM a back door if the PCs cry foul.2) If the PC refused (or I didn't want to ask in the first place), I would have had the shot kill a waitress or other random patron in the vicinity of the PC, and then continue to bump off bystanders at regular intervals.&nbsp; Once the population at large catches on that being near the PCs equals a painful and messy death, the PCs will no longer be the &quot;heroes of legend&quot; but &quot;dead men walking&quot;.&nbsp; And no one in their right mind wants to be around a dead man walking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herobizkit, post: 2639552, member: 36150"] A very dramatic scene which reads well, but I may have done a few things differently. 1) I would have pulled the player aside earlier that session and asked him if he would be willing to die for the betterment of the story. Assure him that Resurrection would be available and other than the humiliating bone-fragmenting head shot, no real damage would happen to his chatacter. This way, the PC is expecting the shot but the OTHERS aren't, which gives the DM a back door if the PCs cry foul. 2) If the PC refused (or I didn't want to ask in the first place), I would have had the shot kill a waitress or other random patron in the vicinity of the PC, and then continue to bump off bystanders at regular intervals. Once the population at large catches on that being near the PCs equals a painful and messy death, the PCs will no longer be the "heroes of legend" but "dead men walking". And no one in their right mind wants to be around a dead man walking. [/QUOTE]

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