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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5473371" data-attributes="member: 42582">Just for the record - in Andy Slack's "Expanded Universes" supplemental rules for Traveller in an early White Dwarf, the nuclear weapon mechanics included "ground zero: dead". I think the same is true for Meson Accelerators in Book 4: Mercenary.More generally, the point is well-taken. The way that HeroWars/Quest responds to this issue is via the scene-framing rules - the GM has final authority over scene-framing, and if a player wants his/her PC to do something which the GM is sceptical of (such as surviving a ground zero nuclear burst) the burden is on the player to explain how this is genre-appropriate. Only once it's clear what the player envisages happening in the situation, and how it can work within the (genre-appropriate) reality of the gameworld, are the action resolution mechanics then able to be engaged.I think that page 42 of 4e's DMG depends upon some sort of similar constraint, although the rules text doesn't clearly articulate it.</blockquote>