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Dealing with death in heroic fantasy TTRPGs

Henrikki Soininen
Room 206, – (45Β min)
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Content warning: This presentation discusses death, violence and other such gruesome topics in TTRPGs

What happens when your beloved player character meets an unexpected death? How to enable heroic last stands? What about resurrecting player characters? How about the dreaded TPK, does it have to end campaigns?

I discuss the topic of player character death, potential issues caused by it in games and present some practical solutions for consideration. The discussion will be focused on heroic high fantasy typical of D&D new and old versions, as well as L&L, but parts of the lecture might be system neutral and broadly applicable.

Program category: PresentationLanguage: EnglishTarget audience: Directed at adultsProgram topics: Roleplaying games