Galeros said:
Okay, in the games that I am playing in the DM will rip up your character sheet if you die(we almost always make new PCs instead of being ressurected). Nobody seems to really care much about it, I actually dont think I have ever been a victim of this myself, though I did do it once when I DMed. But nobody seems to care really. How would you react to this? I realize that this would upset some people, especially those who liked their character a lot. If you were in a game where this happened, would you make a copy of your character sheet everytime you leveled and keep it in secret and snicker at the stupidity of your DM every time you take it out to look at it?
Wow, that is so despicably evil. How could you all do such a thing?
Though, maybe you all don't take the game as seriously as some. In my games, everyone puts a lot of work into a character, even ones that hardly ever or never get played. Each character to my players is a piece of themselves within them. They go as far as having their characters drawn by artists or cutting out comic book and anime clippings or printing anime or fantasy art characters and stapling them to the character sheet.
For our games to cause a character to be ripped apart is just pure sacrilege.
There's a lot of personality and background my players put into their characters, and even if they die, they're lamenated and remembered for all time, like a sort of memorial. Whether or not their character's accomplishments made an impact on the game, IC or OOC, they're still remembered, joked about, or honored in some fashion. There's still the chance they're resurrected, also. Of course, we take resurrection seriously. It just doesn't happen often, or even semi-rarely.
We've had LOST character sheets, but never a ripped one. It happened once when a player got pissed, but he ripped it once so it was easily taped together again LOL. Rewritten, though, afterwards.
Ripping character sheets in our games is just too blasphemous to us to ponder. Why destroy something you put so much time into?