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Anthony · 09-27-2012, 04:24 PM

The thing about suppression fire is that in the real world people are (a) poor at estimating the real risk of low probability occurrences, and (b) significantly more risk averse than PCs, as getting shot is considerably worse than losing a favorite RPG character. Neither effect is particularly easy to represent in an RPG.

09-27-2012, 04:24 PM	#46
Anthony Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Berkeley, CA	Re: What use is Suppression Fire? The thing about suppression fire is that in the real world people are (a) poor at estimating the real risk of low probability occurrences, and (b) significantly more risk averse than PCs, as getting shot is considerably worse than losing a favorite RPG character. Neither effect is particularly easy to represent in an RPG.