So y’all FNGs, tomorrow it’s the big party!

So, you gooey flyworms, you got away with it, you think that's it, training's over and it made you some heavy killing machines! Well, allow me to tell you that you are putting your bayonet very deep in your eye! I bet that less than a tenth of your party will survive your first encounter with the enemy, and less than that will survive until their first transfer. If you have even an ounce of self-preservation, if you apply everything, I mean everything you’ve learned, you may survive, I mean maybe, before being transferred to specialist units. Now take your gear and make me proud by going to die for the fatherland

Before we start

Before you start, define lines that should not be crossed. Pause or rewind the game if something uncomfortable happens during a session. Always make sure everyone is comfortable with the direction of the story.

About the kind of game.

By using “Canon fodder”, the lifespan of a player character will be very short. Games should be difficult with real life danger for them (PCs). Anyway, if a PC survives for a long time, for example reaching level 4, they are transferred to a specialist unit and the player creates a new character.

When a character is transferred or killed, the player immediately creates a new PC, level 1. It reflects that it’s the fresh meat who’s directly coming from bootcamp that replaces the deceased / transferred character.

Be warned, for this game to work, characters shall be played seriously, we have to get attached to them from the first minutes of the game, like a good episode of “Band of brothers”, and each PC death must be harsh and heavy-hearted.

The main interest is to get the same feeling of this kind of show or literature.

The party

Unfortunately, you may propose this kind of game to non rookie RPG players, but everything is possible. They have to be mature enough to accept the certainty of their character’s death and also be able to “play” their character adequately.