How do you feel about it? How do you handle it?
I've seen it work great in some actual plays of dungeon
crawls that have been posted on the Yahoo group for Mythic. After a while, I
got the impression that all of those dead characters added a backdrop, and a
sense of emerging history to the dungeon.
Still, I try to avoid player character death in my own
solo games. Often, I find myself fudging results so that the story can go on,
rather than come to an abrupt stop. I'm not worthy enough to kiss Hitchcock’s
shoe soles, so I won't even try to pull a trick like he did in Psycho by
killing the Heroine early on.
With that pre-amble, I wanted to share an idea that I've
been playing around with.
I have been calling it Consequence and Repercussion tokens interchangeably as
the mood strikes me, but I think "Pick Your Poison" captures the feel
better. Here’s how it works:
