Looting bodies. Eww.

[RangerWickett]

I just realized that last week the party stripped the bloody, torn leather armor off of a poor evil woman they killed. Maybe adventurers just get desensitized to these things, but I think that most people would get sick if they had to do that.

 

[Corsair]

Then again, adventurers deal with life and death every day. Much like scavengers after large mideivel battles, you've seen one dead body, you've seen 'em all.

I think the opposite, that modern day humans are simply OVER sensitive since only a very few people have to deal with issues of life and death (primarily doctors, soldiers, emergency workers, undertakers and the like).

 

[Crothian]

My group does not loot bodies. Heck, they don't even take any treasure from those they kill be them goblins, dragons, or other adversaries.

But I don't think most people in a fantasy game would get sick for doing it. Modern people are soft, we aren't used to seeing blood and guts up close.

 

[Alzrius]

Gary Jackson (of Knights of the Dinner Table fame) had an excellent, albeit disgusting, idea for roleplaying your characters searching dead bodies. His idea was that, to simulate what its like poking and prodding a corpse for valuables, put some coins on the table, and then lay down some harvested roadkill on top of them, and have your players get the coins...that'll show them what it's like for their characters to be looting corpses.

Enjoy!

 

[ph34r]

Gary Jackson (of Knights of the Dinner Table fame) had an excellent, albeit disgusting, idea for roleplaying your characters searching dead bodies. His idea was that, to simulate what its like poking and prodding a corpse for valuables, put some coins on the table, and then lay down some harvested roadkill on top of them, and have your players get the coins...that'll show them what it's like for their characters to be looting corpses.

Enjoy!

I'd rather have my PC's loot whatever they wanted instead of having some roadkill put on my table. :\

 

[Patman21967]

mmmmm...roadkill....I'll take "rat on a stick, please"

 

[Umbran]

but I think that most people would get sick if they had to do that.

Yes, but most people don't hack sentient beings into multiple pieces on a regular basis, either. Most people would get sick. A really good roleplayer would probably have the PC get sick the first few times doing it. But humans are flexible critters, and can get used to most things with repetition.

 

[Tonguez]

Damn You townies crack me up, I slaughtered my first chicken when I was 6!
All this talk of roadkill just get out on a farm during lambing season, seeing dead things isn't anything major (even less so for Adventurers trained to kill things and who have probably been hunting deer and pig (at least) all their lives).
True dead humanoids are slightly more disturbing than a side of beef but I'm sure you'd get use to it after seeing a few.

And besides whats a really dead corpse or two after you've faced rotting masses that actually fight back..

 

[AeroDm]

My girlfriend is a ferensic pathologist in training... she is a little 105 lb redhead who can pull the scalp over the face of someone who was locked in a house at 100 degrees for three days. I cannot. There is a large variance in society and I would imagine that the people who are called to adventure and kill are also those who would be able to handle the aftermath.

 

[WmRAllen67]

My girlfriend is a ferensic pathologist in training... she is a little 105 lb redhead who can pull the scalp over the face of someone who was locked in a house at 100 degrees for three days. I cannot. There is a large variance in society and I would imagine that the people who are called to adventure and kill are also those who would be able to handle the aftermath.

Now THAT'S a woman!