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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nivenus" data-source="post: 4665153" data-attributes="member: 71756">I'm with Mouse. I don't have a problem with the idea in principle - after all, isn't it often said that without risk there isn't any fun? But, to me, doing this sort of thing in what is literally the first third of the campaign seems anticlimatic to me. Maybe you're trying to get across the impression that everyone is expendable. That's fine - but at this point in the story I'd follow the typical Hero's Journey route instead - have a mentor figure kick the bucket instead as an example for the heroes to follow later.Star Wars did it (twice!). Lord of the Rings did it (though it cheated in bringing him back later <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />). It works. Or at least, it works so long as you have a mentor figure to whom the players are genuinely attached. That may not be the case.I don't think killing PCs is a bad idea necessarily. I'm thinking about doing something similar to you in the last tier of my campaign. But, so early on, even if it is the end of the Heroic tier, seems off-key to me. I don't think it will get the reaction you're looking for. Save the epic "go on without me, I'll hold off the ten thousand demons" sort of stuff for the epic tier (that is why it is called that, after all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). For now - leave the sacrifices up to NPCs. I think, narrative-wise as well as gameplay-wise, it will work better overall.</blockquote>

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