Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[Drieddead]

So I have been running a homebrew setting, I'm not gonna bore you with the details but its baisicly a modern day Rippers.
The first session i had a TPK. The party died to an encounter with 5 cultist and 1 wild card caster. Only 2 mooks were left when they killed the party.
Second session no one died. Third session TPK again . They had to kill 3 creatures.... the first two were killed in one round of combat. The third was a wild card with the same stats except he had 2 more toughness.
The fourth session no one died. Just got done playing the fifth session and I killed 2 PCs, but this adventure was pretty tough.
The worst part is I love it . The players enter every room like it could be their last. Every strange sound they hear they wonder what horrid monstrosity is waiting in the darkness to make them re-roll their characters.

So what do you think? Everyone always says their haveing a blast. Too fatal, or just right for a setting where your job is to hunt down evil not meant for man to know?

[sablemage]

1. I think the casualty rate is fine for the setting, personally. Although with it that high, I'd be urging players to use archetypes for their characters for speed of generation.

2. It might get old after a while.

3. As long as everyone is having fun, you're doing it right.
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Andy
Halfway Station

[Khonger]

Agreed. If your players are still having a good time, keep doing what you're doing.

[Dracones]

It'd be interesting to know what stats your throwing up against your players. That seems like a pretty high TPK rate.

Is it random wild dice explosions that are taking them out(random 5 wound hits) or are you just wearing down the player bennies until they fall?

[Drieddead]

The first TPK was just pure dice failure. The party couldnt hit anything and I was aceing like crazy with double tapping mooks. The mooks had D6 in all attributes and a d6 shoot and notice with glocks, and the caster was the novice mage out of the fantasy companion but was a wild card.

The second TPK was even worse as far as dice rolls went. The first two encounters with the creatures (baisicly the Licktors from Resident Evil 2) were both 1 shot kills for the party. They seen them and killed them. The last one finaly got to use his special abillty and one shoted a player. I fudged dice for 4 rounds after that to give the other 2 pcs a chance but they couldnt hit or injure the thing. I dont remember the exact stats but i remember their pary was 6 and toughness was 6, but the wild cards was 8 toughness.

This last session I am responsible for the deaths. It was a giant zombie. I used the giant stats from the fantasy companion but reduced the size from +5 to +3 ( So it was like an 8 foot tall zombie and not a 20 foot tall zombie) and gave the giant the undead abillitys. They were kinda at fault though. Had 2 guys in melee range with it that didnt need to be there and he had improved sweep.

[ValhallaGH]

You're using good tactics (i.e. Double Tap). Are the players? Because if they aren't then you're probably playing too hard against them. Sometimes known as "the school of hard knocks" method of instruction.

[CitizenKeen]

Darn. An example of when grammar matters.

I was really excited when I saw "Setting to fatal" and I thought "Setting Savage Worlds to fatal? I have to read that - I already thought Savage Worlds was really fatal!"

Alas.

[Drieddead]

[Drieddead]