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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2641489" data-attributes="member: 18549">Histrionics, I tell you!  What an amusingly slanderous characterization of someone you've never met before based on a bit of florid descriptive text.  Seriously, where are you getting all this from?I saw:* DM sends careful NPC to end PCs' lives, based on good in-game reasons.* DM follows rules (including well-known and PC-utilized house rules) to carry out plan* No evidence of fudging or faking to manipulate or railroad PCs* Dead PC, fair & square, leading party to be more friggin' careful next timeYou saw:* Snidely Whiplash-like DM snickering over his DMPC who was sent to ruin his players' lives for no good reason, because PC deaths are the work of sociopaths who become aroused at the thought of their players' wailing and gnashing of teeth* DM sets rulebook on fire, tells player to do same to character sheet because character is dying right now no matter what!* Forlorn player now turned off of characterization forever because characters are now disposable at whim of evil DMI detect a subtle difference in the way we interpreted this situation.  Perhaps you're reading too much into it?Boy howdy, now you're badmouthing his group's house rules?  Here's a bit of advice: house rules are sacrosanct.  If a group decides they like their house rules, nobody has the right to suggest that their house rules are somehow wrong.  To do so is to tell them that they're playing the game wrongly, and that they should stop playing it the way they want to and start playing it the way you want them to.  Which, I believe goes without saying, is hubristic.Or, perhaps they enjoy the status quo in their game and are now both ashamed of letting their guard down so carelessly and fired up for catching the bastard and writing their names in the snow with his entrails to avenge themselves upon him.  There might actually be a possibility that KM knows his players better than you do.Well, too bad for you, having such jaded, peevish players.</blockquote>

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