How deadly do you like your games /tg/? How many player characters

>>55122230
Plan each encounter as if you meant to kill all the players. They'll usually survive. Obviously don't dump Orcus on the level 1 party, but have your Goblins equip shields or bring molotov cocktails. It's more fun for the players if they have to counter an enemy plan than it is to just get into a slugfest with them.

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I average about 0.25 characters per session.

All from the same player. He doesn't learn from his past mistakes and his response to plan A failing is always "I shoot it with my Ruger Super Warhawk." Maybe Shadowrunning isn't for him.

>>55122230

I run very low lethality games as a matter of course. Players can generally only die at specific dramatic moments, although I'm lucky enough that I have a group who will sometimes willingly spend their characters life if it feels right and there's a reason for it at the time.

That doesn't mean I run an easy game without challenge or danger, though. I'm lucky enough to have players who care enough about the setting and the characters in it that I can set up extremely high stakes situations with a lot on the line, and make victory a real struggle, without needing to threaten the lives of player characters to do it.

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Forgot to say pic related to his response to dying so often but also not changing his approach.

>>55122230
I tend not to kill anyone as long as they play smart. It's not fun to get invested in a character just to have them die to a shitty dice roll even when you're playing smart.

That being said, don't ever turn plot armor so high that the players can Leeroy Jenkins everything.