"Save or Die" effects in GURPS.

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Originally Posted by Ragitsu

Instead of trying to support the side that wants instant death effects, we have people saying they really aren't instant death. Funny, huh?

I see the following arguments on this thread more than people arguing against "instant death":

• GURPS has an existing clear mechanism (and point cost, etc.) for "save-or-die" style instant death attacks, and
• Many fictional and realistic instant death attacks held out as examples of the need for using "save-or-die" attacks can be modelled well in GURPS by standard damage attacks that do enough damage to kill the usual targets instantly rather than "save-or-die" attacks.