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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMVictory" data-source="post: 855453" data-attributes="member: 10877">I've gotten my group to choke up three times.1) During a Robotech campaign the players were defending a Robotech Factory during the "Zentraedi Breakout."  Arriving a few hours before the Z attack, emergency repairs and ammo reloads are provided to the PCs.  They met with the other destroid pilots to plan out the defense.  The attack began and the destroids gun arms seize up!  Sabotage!  My players, began ordering the pilots to fall back.  The pilots refused the PC orders saying that the could draw fire from the PCs who's mecha still functioned.  Both pilots were killed.  The PCs made damn sure to be at the funerals of those pilots.  (Being an Army vet) I could detail the proper funeral events and, having a tape of "Taps," my players stood and saluted, getting choked up over it.2) A Dragonlance campaign where I guess my description of refugees fleeing from the warfare of a neighboring kingdom were so graphic the PCs used everything they had to help and were overwhelmed by sheer numbers.  They became choked up by the misery I was able to describe and their inability to stop it.3) A Wormwood campaign where a judge who had been corrupted to evil finally became so horrified at what he had become after sentencing children to death for attempting to escape slavery, sought redemption.  He stood and for the next hour (game time) listed the most horrible crimes he had committed and declared himself guilty of all crimes.  He pulled off his robes and, with gavel in hand, stepped into the soul vat, crying, "Forgive me!"  (The players were choked up at this point.)  A few moments after he slipped from view, covered by the slime of the vat, a rumble comes from it.  A column of light burst from the vat carrying a transformed man.  A demon mask on his face and his gavel had became a massive maul.  Stepping from the column of light to the ground he strode toward a cowering demon, shouting, "Guilty!" and crushed it.  (One of my players dumped the character he was playing to play this Apok!)There have been numerous times I've had the players mad or cheering.  The moments I live for are when they are waiting to see what happens next.  All eyes focused, attention fixed, silent, waiting for your next words that reveal triumph or failure.  The reactions afterwards are bonus. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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