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<blockquote data-quote="loverdrive" data-source="post: 8439770" data-attributes="member: 7027139">To some extent, there's an overlap between all three. Getting the story back on track also, preferably, looks fair and makes sense within the game world.It's the matter of priority, I'd say. When a character walk into a mutant hideout without checking for boobytraps for one reason or another, it's fair and logical for them to be blown up to pieces with a tripwire-activated bomb. It makes sense that whoever laid this trap wouldn't be so generous to give the intruder chance to escape before the explosion, right? But it's kind of bad for the story: hardboiled action heroes don't die in such fashion, so in story now game like AW, a proper response would be something along the lines of &quot;You walk in... SNAP of a tripwire, CLICK of a safety pin removed, CLANK of a grenade falling to the floor. What ya gonna do?&quot;.Many things that can happen to a nameless mook or a bottom-tier NPC just can't happen to a protagonist or an NPC they care about. A random drunkard can walk out of their watering hole and find a bullet lodged between his eyes, but if it was a PC, the bullet would fly half an inch above her head with a scary supersonic boom -- and that's quite unfair, if you ask me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="loverdrive, post: 8439770, member: 7027139"] To some extent, there's an overlap between all three. Getting the story back on track also, preferably, looks fair and makes sense within the game world. It's the matter of priority, I'd say. When a character walk into a mutant hideout without checking for boobytraps for one reason or another, it's fair and logical for them to be blown up to pieces with a tripwire-activated bomb. It makes sense that whoever laid this trap wouldn't be so generous to give the intruder chance to escape before the explosion, right? But it's kind of bad for the story: hardboiled action heroes don't die in such fashion, so in story now game like AW, a proper response would be something along the lines of [I]"You walk in... SNAP of a tripwire, CLICK of a safety pin removed, CLANK of a grenade falling to the floor. What ya gonna do?"[/I]. Many things that can happen to a nameless mook or a bottom-tier NPC just can't happen to a protagonist or an NPC they care about. A random drunkard can walk out of their watering hole and find a bullet lodged between his eyes, but if it was a PC, the bullet would fly half an inch above her head with a scary supersonic boom -- and that's quite [I]unfair[/I], if you ask me. [/QUOTE]

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