On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Fred Kiesche <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Me: … Your ship explodes, creating a brief nova in front of the enemy ship as each of you and those you got off the planet are instantly vaporized.

[If this were not a convention game but the above still happened . . . ]

Me (as GM): And then your characters all snap awake from this same horrible daymare as the ship is still climbing for orbit. The enemy ship is closing in, but running the number seems to say you have enough time before achieving minimum safe distance to make sure that all the lates updates have been made to your nave equipment. What do you do?

[If they still fail to jump out, then the players get a chance to "surrender at the dramatically appropriate moment" . . . and each gain an extra Benny thereby (I run Savage Worlds these days).]

Richard Aiken

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