B&BoB: 52 Ways to Die
I seek your input, everyone - especially from the non-gamers who read this (if there are any of you at all, that is).
In Billions and Billions of Bullets, I kinda want there to be a lot of death. Not only will the main character be killing a lot of foo’s, but they’ll likely die painful deaths themselves before the game is over as well. To best facilitate the in-game narration of these deaths, and to give the players some ideas when narrating the deaths of others, I’d like to follow in the “everything can be randomly drawn if so desired” spirit of Cannibal Contagion and include a table containing 52 ways for a character to die, conveniently placed in the back of the book.
I’d be grateful honored if anyone who reads this would leave a comment or three with some ideas of ways that they would like to see a character. The rules:
* Must be under 12 words (I’d like to have it in a neat line-by-line chart)
* Must be adaptable to a variety of settings
* Can by gruesome, simple, embarrassing, epic, or ignoble, but I’d rather they not be intentionally amusing. This game is not being written with the tongue-in-cheek approach I took with Cannibal Contagion. One or two amusing ones might be snuck into the list, but please steer away from that.
So for example:
* Deadly fall from a building
* Ripped apart by pitbulls
* Bullet through both of the eyes, execution-style
* The worst food poisoning ever.
* Death by firing squad
* Poisoned champagne
* Lots and lots of scorpions
What are your ideas?
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