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Originally Posted by Enpeze
There is alot you can do against the "sudden death syndrome" like arrows in head or chest. 
One (and maybe the best) of the things you can do is to evaluate if conflict can be solved in another way than getting in a fight. Another one is to put better armor on vital locations. Third you can do is to kill your enemy first. |
Unless you avoid combat entirely--and that's an odd choice in most campaigns--that isn't always an option. Armor does nothing against RQ style crits. And as long as dice are involved, killing your enemy first is at least in part as dependent on luck as getting the damage in the first place.
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In other more cinematic and forgiving systems a warrior has to pretend to live with one foot in his own grave. In RQ he really does. This I call authenticity and realism and it is one of the things I love in BRP. Its direct. A warrior kills
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And that's fine, but most people _don't_ like that degree of hazard; its offputting. Now, you can always say "Play another game", but then no one should be wondering why BRP is a corner of the hobby.