Getting Attached

[Cedric]

I always get attached to me characters...and I love my characters. But, while this may sound cold, I do have a surefire way of dealing with the pain and upset of losing a beloved character.

I think about how much fun I'll have creating another character. Doesn't help entirely, but it takes the sting away.

Cedric

 

[mythago]

That's very true, but I think the player needs to be ready for such a transition first.

True. I meant only that from the player's POV, it's a good idea to consider "What happens if/when this character dies? How do I imagine him dying?" Unless it's a cinematic/four-color game or something like Toon, it's a possibility. Doesn't mean it won't still hurt, but sometimes people seem to forget that their characters can die.

"But I LIKE that character!"

"Oh, well then, let's rewind and add a +10 to your roll to disarm that trap. NOT."

I was pretty sure you weren't saying that too, but you did remind me of some of the conversations I've heard concerning books where if an author never kills off a main character, then the book automatically sucks and isn't worthy of a title any better than 'dreck.'

Oh, blargh. No, I don't agree with that at all. In fact, some of the most gripping books are those where you know the hero survives (because it's a historical, or there's another book in the series), and you still get all tense when you reach a dangerous scene because the hero is in peril....I mean, what if...

 

[Particle_Man]

Well, you could always get that Ghostwalk supplement and adapt it to 3.5. Then you can keep playing the character after it is dead.

Actually, I have a character that I am attached to, but I also have the character's two brothers already delineated as adventurer types, simply because my DM does not pull punches...ever. So if I lose the one character, I can at least play others in the family line. It would help for me, anyhow.

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Sounds like you were playing "The Ettin's Riddle".

No, we were playing a Sword and Sorcery module ate the time. (We don't play in the Sword and Sorcery campaign world, our DM just uses adventures from various sources) I forget what it's name was, but it was about a stolen crucible, and the Ettin skirmish was a sub-adventure. I don't want to go into detail, in case someone out there is playing it.