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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 5686125" data-attributes="member: 775">Years ago, my friends and I played a Middle Earth Role Playing (MERP) campaign. The system is known for being a toned down version of Rolemaster (lots of charts and critical hit tables). So what happened to my character is pretty graphic, and I remember it to this day. We discovered that agents of Sauron had infiltrated a village and started a cult there. We managed to destroy the main cult, but one of the cult leaders had escaped. After tracking him to some nearby castle ruins, we discovered him speaking to a large group of townsfolk in the courtyard. While we hid, the cultist lied to the townsfolk about how we were spreading evil and bring ruin. I thought, since my character had "public speaking" and a high presence attribute, that this would be the perfect time to stand up and speak out against the cultist. So my character stood up and gave a brief speech. Some dice were rolled. But, alas, the forked tongue of the Sauron cultist had corrupted the townsfolk. He shouted: "Kill him!" And they charge me.I killed one before the others fell upon my character. A blow from a club crushed his shoulder. An arm got broken. Somebody with a knife stabbed his leg, hit a major artery causing him to bleed. I think one of his hands got severed. And this was on top of all the other "non-critical" damage. The blow to the jaw, sending it straight into the brain was the final straw. Then the mob saw the other characters. Somebody else (the animist?) got his head crushed by club or a rock. The cultist himself mounted horse and rode somebody else down, somehow severing his leg with a sword from horseback. The cultist and his mob were rolled criticals left and right--but that's MERPs for you. So, not only did I get my character killed, but most of the group, too! And its all because my character tried public speaking! <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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