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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 5297440" data-attributes="member: 158">Oh, those are absolutely fun moments, but I feel it a bit of a failure if I have more than one session go by and something hasn't needed to be sword-bashed at least once. I've had plenty of roleplaying and intense negotiation experiences, but as I said, if I want to wrangle with important political issues or negotiate tense situations, I'll head to the voting booth or go to a weekly business meeting and do it for real. In real life, I can't change the unjust politics of my local city by putting sword to the evil ruler, freeing the slaves and burning down the slave-pens.In Star Wars, it would have been a snooze-fest if the answer for the Death Star was to blackmail Grand Moff Tarkin into leaving the rebels alone, or the solution to the Emperor was to enter into diplomatic negotiations to broker a secession from the Empire. &quot;I'm sorry, Imperial Officers, but I feel I must issue a greivance with the Imperial Judicial System for your mistreatment of these poor Ewok natives.&quot; <s>Sometimes</s> (scratch that, most of the time), it's fun for the underdog to kick the big bad's butt and send him packing to the next life. Otherwise, the gamut of protagonists from Star Wars to Indiana Jones to Conan to John Carter wouldn't exist.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 5297440, member: 158"] Oh, those are absolutely fun moments, but I feel it a bit of a failure if I have more than one session go by and something hasn't needed to be sword-bashed at least once. I've had plenty of roleplaying and intense negotiation experiences, but as I said, if I want to wrangle with important political issues or negotiate tense situations, I'll head to the voting booth or go to a weekly business meeting and do it for real. In real life, I can't change the unjust politics of my local city by putting sword to the evil ruler, freeing the slaves and burning down the slave-pens. In Star Wars, it would have been a snooze-fest if the answer for the Death Star was to blackmail Grand Moff Tarkin into leaving the rebels alone, or the solution to the Emperor was to enter into diplomatic negotiations to broker a secession from the Empire. [I]"I'm sorry, Imperial Officers, but I feel I must issue a greivance with the Imperial Judicial System for your mistreatment of these poor Ewok natives." [/I] [s]Sometimes[/s] (scratch that, most of the time), it's fun for the underdog to kick the big bad's butt and send him packing to the next life. Otherwise, the gamut of protagonists from Star Wars to Indiana Jones to Conan to John Carter wouldn't exist. [/QUOTE]

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