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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5195089" data-attributes="member: 21169">My problem with PC death is that if it happens too often (assuming no rez - I don't even count it as death if you get rezzed) it's damaging to campaign continuity. You've built up all these relationships, plots, long-term goals, long-standing mysteries and such and it all gets shot to hell if not a single one of the original PCs is still alive. In fact it's not a campaign any more if there isn't that unifying element of character.Apart from that, and it's a serious problem, I got no issue with death, even stupid random death. I (and afaics everyone else in Britain) like fairly cynical, selfish protagonists. We can't believe in Superman-types. So long as the PCs are sympathetic, at least a bit likeable, and not total dicks, they can be deeply imperfect, not even proper heroes. It somehow seems more fitting for people like that to die stupid deaths - such as a lucky crit from an orc or getting bit by a poison spider while sticking your hand up a chimney.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 5195089, member: 21169"] My problem with PC death is that if it happens too often (assuming no rez - I don't even count it as death if you get rezzed) it's damaging to campaign continuity. You've built up all these relationships, plots, long-term goals, long-standing mysteries and such and it all gets shot to hell if not a single one of the original PCs is still alive. In fact it's not a campaign any more if there isn't that unifying element of character. Apart from that, and it's a serious problem, I got no issue with death, even stupid random death. I (and afaics everyone else in Britain) like fairly cynical, selfish protagonists. We can't believe in Superman-types. So long as the PCs are sympathetic, at least a bit likeable, and not total dicks, they can be deeply imperfect, not even proper heroes. It somehow seems more fitting for people like that to die stupid deaths - such as a lucky crit from an orc or getting bit by a poison spider while sticking your hand up a chimney. [/QUOTE]

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