[UA] Combat between PC's

[Mark Fender]

>Do you roll the dice or do you let the player write down the damage and 
show
it to you(kind of time consuming)?

The one time it happened in my game, I had them roll and announce damage, 
but then I adjusted it up or down depending on how I felt. If they 
described it nicely, I tacked a few extra points on. If they said things 
like "I shoot him" again and again, I started deducting points. And when 
the combat went on for more than 15 minutes, it suddenly became 
ridiculously deadly (everyone kept failing their rolls).

Not to worry, though. Everyone lived. It was just a dream sequence laid by 
an evil Oneiromancer. You see, I've got this trained professional hitman in 
the group (who's really the only competent one) and the rest of the party 
is really frightened of him (because he manages to fail every single 
Madness Check and is about to completely freak out). I just told him that 
it was all a dream and that everyone else was having nightmares about his 
character. He ran with it and started terrorizing them so that they were 
completely witless by the end of the session. 

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