How to avoid killing your player characters as GM

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Originally Posted by whswhs

Well, okay, I was using "dungeon crawls" as synecdoche for fighting to the death as a play style.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Originally Posted by whswhs

As for prospectuses, here's an example entry from my 2020 prospectus:

_____ Demobbed. Streetlevel supers. GURPS. Source material: Astro City, JSA: The Liberty File, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Planetary, Top Ten: The Forty-Niners, Wild Cards, The Defenders (Netflix series).
It’s 1945, and the boys (and girls) with special powers are coming home from the war. How will they fit into civilian life in a world at peace? Player characters will be streetlevel supers—not necessarily “superheroes,” but generally inclined to obey the law, protect the innocent, and help the helpless. The focus of play will be partly on the usual superheroic combat and partly on inventing a role for people with strange powers and abilities. There won’t be a generic category of “superpowers”; rather, many different types of special abilities will be available, from ancient mystical rituals to superscientific inventions. Combat will be realistic and death will be possible, as will legal consequences for going too far with your abilities.
You may enjoy this campaign if you like streetlevel superheroes or pulp adventurers; a post-World War II setting appeals to you.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like a campaign where I'd expect existential combat to feature, particularly with the bit about legal consequences for going too far. As I suspected, your prospectuses sound like they do a good job of setting expectations.

Originally Posted by whswhs

I was going to include this in my last post, but I can't figure out how multiquote is meant to work; when I click the icon I don't get a box to type in.

I normally just open a new tab for each reply, then cut-and-paste them all together into a single post, but I decided to test out the multi-quote function for this reply. Looks like the way it works is that you hit the multi-quote button for each post you want to quote, which selects it; once you have all of them, you click on Post Reply (as though you were posting without a quote) and your reply automatically has the selected posts quoted.