| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Characters (dead or alive) |
| Date: | Fri, 12 May 1995 12:05:39 +0200 |
>really dissapointed if none of my characters ever advanced to any degree
>either. It'd get to a situation like, "Oh, _another_ character? Didn't I
>just make one last week?". I'd much prefer to have some character with an
>extensive played history behind him, it just adds that much more to the
>character in my view.
That's true too, it's not fun if you get to roll up a character every other
night because they all get killed. IMO you should strike a balance between
danger (and therefore the chance of having characters get killed) and
survival chances. We've been playing with the same characters for three
years now, and they've only really been nearly killed twice -- the first
time was in that urban brawl adventure, they got kicked and torched by the
dragon; the second time was when they ran into Aztechnology "senior
technicians" who used sensible tactics (as opposed to the players' "stand in
the open and shoot at the enemy" method of operation), but both times they
managed to pull out, and after a few months' healing time, were once again
kicking ass.
It's only natural that you protect your character -- after all you've
probably invested lots of time in him/her, so you don't want them killed.
But I'm also saying that IMHO you shouldn't start to whine if (s)he does buy
some agricultural real estate.
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