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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9742851" data-attributes="member: 58416">Partially agree but also partially disagree.Reacher (Amazon Prime) mostly has a new cast each season, and it's doing fine. Yes, there are a handful of characters who are re-occuring, but many don't; quite often, characters die.So, I agree that there are main cast members who return to centre stage, like you say. But I'm not sure if the ones who die are exactly "secondary." It's more like they are primary characters within their respective seasons, but perhaps "secondary" if you look at the entirety of the series. I'm not sure, but there are certainly characters who are important who also die. I think, in a novel or a show they could be seen as secondary because the writer/producer already knows the outcome. But a rpg is not typically pre-determined like that. I've seen characters who were intended to be secondary in a rpg become important because the players became attached to the local shop keep or held a grudge against the one orc who got away; I've also seen PCs die on the first roll of a campaign.Failure and death need not be the end of the story. Too many people focus on the shine. You need a good heat for a proper comeback, and sometimes a heel needs credibility so that the babyface is more over in the end. If I misunderstood your meaning, I apologize ahead of time. With this many pages, I'm losing track of who said what.</blockquote>