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<blockquote data-quote="Luz" data-source="post: 6857530" data-attributes="member: 94725">It was bittersweet for the player. Her character's death was very ironic, for her backstory was that she was once a slave and now a crusader for liberating slaves and stamping out slavery (hence her involvement in the Slavelords), only to perish at the hands of one she thought she was saving. She was pretty bummed, and had only a little enthusiasm to run the doppleganger. The session ended shortly thereafter and we play again this week, so I'm hoping the sting of her character death has subsided and she'll embrace the monster role for a little while. The player had put a lot of thought into her character backstory and honestly, she was only playing accordingly (being sympathetic to a slave). Her character had lots of potential for this campaign and I empathize with that, so I get where you're coming from with regards to character backstory and the effort that goes into it. I appreciate it when players go above and beyond like that. But D&amp;D can be a cruel mistress, kinda like an episode of Game of Thrones. It doesn't care about what the character has done in the past, only that death is a bad dice roll or one wrong decision away. But, like Game of Thrones, there's never a shortage of interesting characters <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luz, post: 6857530, member: 94725"] It was bittersweet for the player. Her character's death was very ironic, for her backstory was that she was once a slave and now a crusader for liberating slaves and stamping out slavery (hence her involvement in the Slavelords), only to perish at the hands of one she thought she was saving. She was pretty bummed, and had only a little enthusiasm to run the doppleganger. The session ended shortly thereafter and we play again this week, so I'm hoping the sting of her character death has subsided and she'll embrace the monster role for a little while. The player had put a lot of thought into her character backstory and honestly, she was only playing accordingly (being sympathetic to a slave). Her character had lots of potential for this campaign and I empathize with that, so I get where you're coming from with regards to character backstory and the effort that goes into it. I appreciate it when players go above and beyond like that. But D&D can be a cruel mistress, kinda like an episode of Game of Thrones. It doesn't care about what the character has done in the past, only that death is a bad dice roll or one wrong decision away. But, like Game of Thrones, there's never a shortage of interesting characters :D [/QUOTE]

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