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<blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4429311" data-attributes="member: 51325">re: &quot;Random one shot deaths&quot;&nbsp;I'm kinda wondering why people are surprised by players not wanting random deaths. &nbsp;Was I the only one reading DRAGON during the 2E heyday where they used to extol &quot;getting in touch with your character&quot;, &quot;become your character&quot;, &quot;make your characer your avatar&quot; etc....&nbsp;The blame for this lies FIRMLY with 2E's slant away from 1e's &quot;it's just a game&quot; to &quot;this is a real world situation&quot; and away from &quot;randomly rolled characters&quot; etc.&nbsp;Really, read Gygax excerpts about his game. They actually came prepared with backup characters and didn't even bother making names forthier characters until 3rd/4th level.&nbsp;The system now says we should be invested in the characters we create yet somehow, it's the PLAYERS fault for not wanting random death?&nbsp;I call shenanigans on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AllisterH, post: 4429311, member: 51325"] re: "Random one shot deaths" I'm kinda wondering why people are surprised by players not wanting random deaths. Was I the only one reading DRAGON during the 2E heyday where they used to extol "getting in touch with your character", "become your character", "make your characer your avatar" etc.... The blame for this lies FIRMLY with 2E's slant away from 1e's "it's just a game" to "this is a real world situation" and away from "randomly rolled characters" etc. Really, read Gygax excerpts about his game. They actually came prepared with backup characters and didn't even bother making names forthier characters until 3rd/4th level. The system now says we should be invested in the characters we create yet somehow, it's the PLAYERS fault for not wanting random death? I call shenanigans on this. [/QUOTE]

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