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<blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 856199" data-attributes="member: 7701">As a DM, I've never been emotional, really. I've always been a detached third party, describing the events around them. I suppose it's because I know what's going on and the NPCs motivations, etc, so I rarely get to surprise myself. The times I do surprise myself, I haven't really gotten emotional. But, then again, I'm not an emotional person *at all*.Now, my players, on the other hand, have gotten somewhat emotional at times. When a very long-term NPC (multiple years of real time) who was betrothed to one of the PCs died in a dragon attack, the group was very morose for the rest of the session.As well, there was a time when the PCs were trying to liberate a long-despairing region (who had all but given up) taken over by slavers. When the PCs were ambushed by a nasty group of slavers and suddenly the young boy who the PCs befriended in the nearby town came over the hill with a rag-tag bunch of armed villagers - well, there was standing up and cheering all around.Now *that* makes all the hard work by a DM worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arnwyn, post: 856199, member: 7701"] As a DM, I've never been emotional, really. I've always been a detached third party, describing the events around them. I suppose it's because I know what's going on and the NPCs motivations, etc, so I rarely get to surprise myself. The times I do surprise myself, I haven't really gotten emotional. But, then again, I'm not an emotional person *at all*. Now, my players, on the other hand, have gotten somewhat emotional at times. When a very long-term NPC (multiple years of real time) who was betrothed to one of the PCs died in a dragon attack, the group was very morose for the rest of the session. As well, there was a time when the PCs were trying to liberate a long-despairing region (who had all but given up) taken over by slavers. When the PCs were ambushed by a nasty group of slavers and suddenly the young boy who the PCs befriended in the nearby town came over the hill with a rag-tag bunch of armed villagers - well, there was standing up and cheering all around. Now *that* makes all the hard work by a DM worth it. [/QUOTE]

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