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<blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 9256967" data-attributes="member: 82524"><p>Character Death?</p><p></p><p>No thanks.</p><p></p><p>For one, I'm someone who invests in their character and their story and finds stories more interesting when it's about characters. I find random, unexpected character death to be a detriment to that story because it's going to leave unsatisfying dangling threads.</p><p></p><p>For another.... well I spent my teen years watching the aftermath of Steven King's 'when in doubt, kill a character' advice being taken out of its native genre and used to force emotional responses in so, so many stories that would have been much better without, followed by what Game of Thrones did to fantasy in particular and... I'm deathed out, man. I don't feel anything but hollow resentment for the attempt at manipulating my emotions when I see a character die anything but a death that ties up their arc in a well orchestrated way that has an actual impact. The shock and awe doesn't even make me angry anymore, just tired, and basically D&D with my group, which doesn't really do character death has become my escapism for the increasing nihilistic bloodthirst in my other escapism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vaalingrade, post: 9256967, member: 82524"] Character Death? No thanks. For one, I'm someone who invests in their character and their story and finds stories more interesting when it's about characters. I find random, unexpected character death to be a detriment to that story because it's going to leave unsatisfying dangling threads. For another.... well I spent my teen years watching the aftermath of Steven King's 'when in doubt, kill a character' advice being taken out of its native genre and used to force emotional responses in so, so many stories that would have been much better without, followed by what Game of Thrones did to fantasy in particular and... I'm deathed out, man. I don't feel anything but hollow resentment for the attempt at manipulating my emotions when I see a character die anything but a death that ties up their arc in a well orchestrated way that has an actual impact. The shock and awe doesn't even make me angry anymore, just tired, and basically D&D with my group, which doesn't really do character death has become my escapism for the increasing nihilistic bloodthirst in my other escapism. [/QUOTE]
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