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That looks more like a GM presented a "GOTCHA!" scenario than tragedy. It invalidates player choice and characters making bad choices is...

Tragedy doesn't mean fail at everything all the time. If the PCs go into the haunted house succeed like a normal but then discover after...

I feel like we are discussing tragedy in two very different contexts: as a dramatic genre, and as an element of narrative. As an...

One idea for having a mechanic for tragedy is to modify Inspiration. Boost the inspiration so that rather then a re-roll it's auto...

I agree tragedy is hard to do in a typical campaign. I think one way it can be encouraged is presenting players with difficult choices...

This makes me think of horror genre again. If the PC's just choose not to spend the night in the haunted house, we wouldn't be telling...

So going back to literary definition of tragedy, if the PCs can change the outcome, wouldn’t it cease to be a tragedy? If I could...

I keep thinking about the similarity in horror and tragedy. Like, even from a mechanical perspective (like with Sanity or Dread's jenga...

So, this is where I like Gothic Horror as a genre, particularly Ravenloft. Ravenloft allows a player to get their thrills from the...

In my "Out of the Frying Pan" campaign, resurrection magic was severely restricted and came with consequences, so when a beloved member...

I have one. The PCs start the campaign in their home village at an annual festival where assassins poison the well and half the town...

Interesting. I always viewed him, in retrospect, as a hopeful hero who became a tragic anti-hero. He lost his friends (other party...

I'd say so. Edited to add: The character succeeded at their mission, but lost their soul and place in the world in the process. That...

AD&D 2e: I once had an elf character whose elven king tasked him with going down in the Drow tunnels to prevent an invasion of the...

Macbeth is a tragedy that has been "done" several times in D&D and other RPGs. However, it's only a tragedy because it's told from the...