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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 2192366" data-attributes="member: 26473">I take character deaths pretty hard most of the time.The strange thing is that I take them much harder as a GM than as a player.As a player, as long as the GM didn't hose my character through poor play, then I tend to shrug it off as the risk the character accepted in becoming an adventurer. I think of my PCs as living on borrowed time from the giddyup.As a GM however, the death of a player character or a special NPC is a blow. In the case of the former, I tend to second-guess myself a lot: Did I hose the character by mistake? Did I miss a ruling, or make a clue too obscure for the players to take appropriate action? This is on my mind a lot at the moment after many bad rolls by the players in our Modern tabletop game led to a TPK a couple of weeks ago...In the case of special NPCs, I invest a lot in their backgrounds and personalities, so it always makes me a little sad when they die, even if I created them specifically for that outcome. I certainly don't pull punches with my NPCs, but I still mourn the loss of a character that I've put real time and effort to understand and roleplay as well as I can.</blockquote>