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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1742533" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well, that wasn't the whole story.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh&nbsp; &nbsp; :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> The whole story is that this was the first session of a new campaign, but also the last session for awhile for one of our players, who's taking some night-school classes and won't be around for awhile.&nbsp; We were already ready to have the first session, and then he announced that he could make it this one last time -- so it was decided by general agreement that his character would get killed sometime during that session.&nbsp; (The player gets his guys killed all the time through good roleplaying -- he's a tactical genius, but will say things like, &quot;Well, if I tumbled past these guys, opened the door, and then used Heroic Surge to fire a single shot at the computer system, I think I'd be fine... but that's not what my character's 8 Int and 9 Wis tell him to do.&nbsp; So I'm gonna charge.&quot;)He was supposed to hold off the charging guardsmen (this is a Renaissance game, 3-Musketeers-ish, with d20 Modern rules) and get the riflemen to concentrate on him while the rest of the party fled.&nbsp; But the rest of the party also engaged the guardsmen, and then a few unlucky crits brought a couple people down, and you know how that goes... &quot;Oh, Bill's down, we must run back through the withering rain of rifle shots to rescue him while massive guards with claymores swing at us up-close!&quot;Just enough unlucky crits for everyone to go, &quot;Gosh, it's easy to die when we're using VP/WP...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1742533, member: 5171"] Well, that wasn't the whole story. :heh: The whole story is that this was the first session of a new campaign, but also the [b]last[/b] session for awhile for one of our players, who's taking some night-school classes and won't be around for awhile. We were already ready to have the first session, and then he announced that he could make it this one last time -- so it was decided by general agreement that his character would get killed sometime during that session. (The player gets his guys killed all the time through good roleplaying -- he's a tactical genius, but will say things like, "Well, if I tumbled past these guys, opened the door, and then used Heroic Surge to fire a single shot at the computer system, I think I'd be fine... but that's not what my character's 8 Int and 9 Wis tell him to do. So I'm gonna charge.") He was [b]supposed[/b] to hold off the charging guardsmen (this is a Renaissance game, 3-Musketeers-ish, with d20 Modern rules) and get the riflemen to concentrate on him while the rest of the party fled. But the rest of the party also engaged the guardsmen, and then a few unlucky crits brought a couple people down, and you know how that goes... "Oh, Bill's down, we must run back through the withering rain of rifle shots to rescue him while massive guards with claymores swing at us up-close!" Just enough unlucky crits for everyone to go, "Gosh, it's easy to die when we're using VP/WP..." [/QUOTE]

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