| From: | "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Saving the Team by Self-Sacrifice |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:36:47 -0400 |
writes:
>
> How many of you players have GMs and other players bitch about your
> high level character?
Okay, I'll stand up for this one...
> And when you and your team gets into a bind and you try to save the team
> by self-sacrifice your GM wimps out and lets you live?
Still Standing...
> Is it cause he does not want your character to be immortalized by the
> action he took to save his team?
No, not all the time (slight smile)...
> To you GMs out there has any of your players tried to do this? and what
> did you do about the situation?
I've let them do it. But I have tried to do otherwise, as I hate people that
are capable of "killing off" their well developed character. Granted, I am
saying this because those characters are usually played by people who -WANT-
to play. The rest of their group sat on their asses to much most of the rest
of the time, and the really good characters always wind up doing the grunge
work.
Yeah, I give those characters the better karma award (Roleplaying or Smarts
or RP/RT or Drama or some combination thereof) but it just seems maddening to
have that happen (good character's becoming martyrs).
And not to muddy the waters to much, but I have rewarded the players from an
AD&D game I ran about 8 years ago. Their character's committed "Self
Sacrifice", a really strange spell (seen Dragonslayer, you know what I mean).
But it killed the bad guys (big nasty dragon with giants and army) and it
was the last game to an entire summer's worth of sessions (the Spear of
Rilobahn). So, I made them Saints and placed their constellations in the
game world's skies.
Sometimes rewards are worth earning but the best times is when they are worth
Giving.
-Keith
