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<blockquote data-quote="thecasualoblivion" data-source="post: 4839033" data-attributes="member: 59096">The old school, high lethality style of games also had a weird relationship with the combat/roleplaying access, in that the game focused more on challenging the player and the player coming up with solutions as opposed to the game challenging the character and the character coming up with solutions. Death has a different relationship with these two things, where the death of a character doesn't remove the player from the game, but it does remove that character from the game. Thus a game that focuses on players is less affected by character death, while in a game focused on the characters it has a bigger impact.This affects RP as old school games focus on emergent roleplaying that comes out of the game's behavior, while character based games focus on starting the story in game 1 and continuing it. High lethality wouldn't necessarily impede roleplaying in the former, but a character created for an ongoing story would be hard to become invested in if it had a 1/3 chance of dying in any given fight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thecasualoblivion, post: 4839033, member: 59096"] The old school, high lethality style of games also had a weird relationship with the combat/roleplaying access, in that the game focused more on challenging the player and the player coming up with solutions as opposed to the game challenging the character and the character coming up with solutions. Death has a different relationship with these two things, where the death of a character doesn't remove the player from the game, but it does remove that character from the game. Thus a game that focuses on players is less affected by character death, while in a game focused on the characters it has a bigger impact. This affects RP as old school games focus on emergent roleplaying that comes out of the game's behavior, while character based games focus on starting the story in game 1 and continuing it. High lethality wouldn't necessarily impede roleplaying in the former, but a character created for an ongoing story would be hard to become invested in if it had a 1/3 chance of dying in any given fight. [/QUOTE]

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