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Originally Posted by Simlasa
There are plenty of games out there with 'cinematic' rules where the precious PC doesn't have to worry about getting wacked... but for me BRP is my game of choice for rules where the default is a reasonable likelihood of character death as a penalty for doing something stupid.
But then our group like games where you're not guaranteed the starring role... just for showing up.
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There's no need to play the dozens on people who don't happen to like sudden death. Its not like doing everything right is a guarantee of survival (or even makes it exceptionally more likely) in some BRP sets; in RQ one critical hit from a longbow arrow in the wrong place was sufficient, and there could sometimes be next to nothing you could do about that. This is particularly true with lower powered characters where simply fighting someone with a shortspear had a relatively high risk of this sort of thing over the course of multiple combats.