I'm running DCC for the first time, starting with the "funnel" adventure in the core rulebook, and the lethality is... a bit less than I expected.
My players have been very careful (i.e., sending in one guinea pig/character at a time, etc.), such that the room with the barbarian statue (which as written is supposed to kill several characters), only killed one. AND that character succeeded on his Luck roll when the party rolled over the body.
And that same character died again. (Since he had a -4 penalty to rolls, he became the go-to guinea pig.) And the "roll over the body" rules don't seem to place a limit on how many times the same character can wake back up. He succeeded the 2nd time. At this point, I house-ruled that the same character could not recover in this fashion more than 1 time during the same adventure.
Am I running this right? Thanks in advance.
Can you "roll over the body" with Level-0 characters?
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Re: Can you "roll over the body" with Level-0 characters?
0-level characters are dead when they reach 0 hp. There is no chance to roll over the body....except to loot their stuff!rotgrub wrote:I'm running DCC for the first time, starting with the "funnel" adventure in the core rulebook, and the lethality is... a bit less than I expected.
My players have been very careful (i.e., sending in one guinea pig/character at a time, etc.), such that the room with the barbarian statue (which as written is supposed to kill several characters), only killed one. AND that character succeeded on his Luck roll when the party rolled over the body.
And that same character died again. (Since he had a -4 penalty to rolls, he became the go-to guinea pig.) And the "roll over the body" rules don't seem to place a limit on how many times the same character can wake back up. He succeeded the 2nd time. At this point, I house-ruled that the same character could not recover in this fashion more than 1 time during the same adventure.
Am I running this right? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Can you "roll over the body" with Level-0 characters?
Yeah, can't recall the page, but it specifically says Zeroes that reach 0 hp are dead, period.
The Funnel is sort of a game within a game as part of character creation...
The Funnel is sort of a game within a game as part of character creation...
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