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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigVanVader" data-source="post: 6476009" data-attributes="member: 6778659">Oh my god.So ok, we're playing Star Wars D6 system. And on one hand it's really fun to make characters. On the other hand, the game is a goddamn meatgrinder. I mean, you roll, you get shot, you die, and then you build something else. If Gary Gygax became an astronaut, this is the game he would make. It's awful.So, I've made a Gamorrean(A pig guard, you know those guys in Return of the Jedi, who wield giant axes?), and the other player(we were a three man band in those days, so one person ran a game, and two people played in it.) made something really advanced and powerful by that game's standards. Really high tech, he had a lot of credits to buy equipment with, he was decked out.So, the game ensues, we're infiltrating some giant space party because it's Empire funded or something...I actually completely forget the premise it's been so long. But we try the stealth approach and that doesn't work. Eventually we're down in the cargo bay in a firefight, trying to just get back to our ship.By this time, the other player looks over at my sheet(it's a compulsive thing, he couldn't help it in those days), and he notices that I'm just some stupid Gamorrean, with like the Star Wars equivalent of leather armor. He laughed in my face and said the immortal words, "My armor's better than yours!"Right then, in front of us, the DM rolled to hit the player, because that's what he was going to do anyway. (The player didn't take cover during the gunfight, you see.) He rolled the equivalent of that game to a critical hit, and essentially evaporated the player's character on the spot. Damage in that game was no joke at all.The player was almost sullen and quiet, as he slowly folded up his character sheet and  then tore it up. And then, as the DM and I were continuing the game, and the player got up to go get some soda or get some food or something, he looked over at us and said icily, "I hope all your characters die. Almost immediately afterward, he started to nervously laugh and play it off like he was joking, but we both saw the look in his eyes. We knew he was serious.It was high school when we had that game, and it's 2014 now, it's so many many years later. And every single time we see him(and we see him often), we laugh and make fun of him for that moment because we both agreed it was such a perfect beautiful moment.So yeah, your kid took his character's death well.</blockquote>

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