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<blockquote data-quote="ptolemy18" data-source="post: 3853142" data-attributes="member: 24970">So you play games where you always know when your PCs and NPCs are going to die? :/ Sounds pretty boring to me.And speaking personally, I do occasionally enjoy stories about the tragic fates of poor souls, cut down before their time. I love the democratically random element of D&amp;D where there is always a SLIM chance that things will get totally screwed up even for the awesomest heroes or villains. Give me a down-by-law, hard-luck, unlikely hero any day. Give me a doomed figure like Marv (from Sin City) or Elric of Melnibone. Or an even more screwed up and unlikely hero. Like the Band of Brothers comparison I made earlier. If you want to know for sure that the hero you created will survive to the end of the game and win, then that's a console RPG, not a tabletop RPG. Capital-H Heroes get boring sometimes. Infallible destined Heroes even more so.But on the other hand, heck, it's all up to you and your DM! You can play that kind of game if you want to, and I will play a different kind of game, inasmuch as it's possible for both of us to do this using the same ruleset. To each their own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ptolemy18, post: 3853142, member: 24970"] So you play games where you always know when your PCs and NPCs are going to die? :/ Sounds pretty boring to me. And speaking personally, I do occasionally enjoy stories about the tragic fates of poor souls, cut down before their time. I love the democratically random element of D&D where there is always a SLIM chance that things will get totally screwed up even for the awesomest heroes or villains. Give me a down-by-law, hard-luck, unlikely hero any day. Give me a doomed figure like Marv (from Sin City) or Elric of Melnibone. Or an even more screwed up and unlikely hero. Like the Band of Brothers comparison I made earlier. If you want to know for sure that the hero you created will survive to the end of the game and win, then that's a console RPG, not a tabletop RPG. Capital-H Heroes get boring sometimes. Infallible destined Heroes even more so. But on the other hand, heck, it's all up to you and your DM! You can play that kind of game if you want to, and I will play a different kind of game, inasmuch as it's possible for both of us to do this using the same ruleset. To each their own. [/QUOTE]

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