How to avoid killing your player characters as GM

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Originally Posted by Inky

Yeah, I'm not sure whether Colonel_Klink has done any test combats yet - there seems to be a lot of arguing back and forth "it would play out like this" "no it wouldn't play out like this" about his scenario, so doing a few test runs, if they haven't yet, might clear up some of that rather than argue about what might hypothetically happen.

He did do a test combat, in which a couple of skill 10 mooks accidentally headshot a test PC, in part due to two rules errors: treating skull as -5 instead of -7, and allowing 3 to crit succeed even with an effective skill below 3. On learning about the first error, the good Colonel said that assuaged some of his discomfort; he did not comment on the second error, which should have made the headshot impossible even if it were armed at the face. (Because there was a -3 range penalty.)