A depressed hero

[Bartmanhomer]

I just thought of something! What if a hero who wants to kill a villain for destorying his hometown and he found the villain! The hero slain the villain and so many people cheer the hero but he was very depressed and didn't gave any graduitited to the people.

 

[WayneLigon]

I've read a couple books like that, where the man looks around after living his entire life for that one acheivement and going 'Well... now what?'.

In most D&D campaigns I've been in where people had the theme of 'You killed my father. Prepare to die!', they had more than enough other enemies that by the time they finally killed their nemesis, there were several others willing to take over the task of trying to kill him.

 

[Dog Moon]

graduitited

I think this is supposed to be gratitude, right? Anyway, why would he need to show any to the townsfolk. Although I suppose he should be considered a hero, he might not necessarily think himself as one. He did what he needed to do and I could see some people who do that want to return to their normal life while others would want to accept the praise of the town.

Although depressed might be a little extreme, I could see it being a possibility. A man from a smalling farming village has his town destroyed so he goes to kill to person responsible. While doing so, he sees the huge, wide world and realizes what little he has at his farming home. He ends up killing the person responsible for the destruction of his home and though he wants to return to his people, he feels he cannot live there anymore because he seen what was beyond the horizon and knows that is better than what he has. The only thing to make him happy again is to go live in a big city or something.

It makes a lot of sense. However, are you trying to work a character like this into a campaign of yours or is this for a short story or something? I've written my thoughts on the subject, but I don't really have a goal for it because I'm unsure what you want from us, if anything.

 

[Kapalen]

smalling farming village

I think this is supposed to be small farming village, right? Anyway, if that happened the "hero" may have a moral dilemma. Just because the guy destroyed his hometown or whatever who's to say the hero was justified in killing him?

 

[Dog Moon]

Originally posted by Kapalen
smalling farming village

I think this is supposed to be small farming village, right? Anyway, if that happened the "hero" may have a moral dilemma. Just because the guy destroyed his hometown or whatever who's to say the hero was justified in killing him?

I don't know if it's supposed to be a small farming village or not, that's just the first thing I thought of.

I suppose it's true that just because you do something bad it doesn't necessarily mean death is what you deserve. Now if he comes through, destroys the village, enslaves the men, kills off the old, rapes the women and then sells the women into slavery, I'd say he pretty much deserves death.

Also, for the guy depressed thing. If he belonged to a religion which does not condone death or even violence for that matter, and he kills the guy, he would have gone against the tenents of his religion. That can cause some major depression problems too.