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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 7824363" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>A curse like a sex change is a direct roleplaying challenge to the players, INFLICTED upon them unwillingly. It doesn't matter that they should have been more cautious, the consequences you're putting on them are, "Accept this roleplaying challenge... OR ELSE..." Or else, what, exactly? Some players are just not up for a roleplaying challenge of any kind and fewer are going to be up for this kind in particular. You CANNOT force them to like it or even to roll with it as justifiable punishment, because they have to be WILLING participants in that punishment. They are not. Example:</p><p></p><p>"The adventure says clearly, the first PC that steps on that square becomes a tree. BAM! You're a tree. Now play a tree."</p><p>"But I don't want to play a tree. I want to play my Orc-fisherman-communist-barbarian."</p><p>"Tough. You're now a tree. You play a tree."</p><p>"I roll up another PC exactly like my PC before he became a tree."</p><p>"You can't. You have to play a tree."</p><p>"I quit."</p><p>"You can't quit - you have to come back here and play a tree and LIKE IT!"</p><p></p><p>Same as if they randomly change from male to female. Doesn't matter that they had it coming to them. You can't FORCE them to play along with their punishment if they really don't want to. You're only pushing them to drastic actions to get out from under it or never-ending misery and dislike of you and your campaign. Even if they do accept it as punishment, you can't force them to LIKE it and you forevermore have unhappy players that only get less happy the more insistent you are that they play female PC's they now DON'T like, that were formerly male and DID like.</p><p></p><p>Call your game a total loss or give them an out they WILL accept. Have some compassionate Female deity of Female Womanliness show up and say, "You are all PATHETIC examples of females of your species and ungrateful for the <em>blessing</em> you have been given. That one even has a beard! I will not tolerate you being female any longer. You are all hereby <em>cursed</em> to be male. Serves you right." Then for the future be aware of other roleplaying challenges that players DON'T have to go along with if they really don't want to, no matter how much they might deserve the burden - like forced changes to race, class, alignment...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 7824363, member: 32740"] A curse like a sex change is a direct roleplaying challenge to the players, INFLICTED upon them unwillingly. It doesn't matter that they should have been more cautious, the consequences you're putting on them are, "Accept this roleplaying challenge... OR ELSE..." Or else, what, exactly? Some players are just not up for a roleplaying challenge of any kind and fewer are going to be up for this kind in particular. You CANNOT force them to like it or even to roll with it as justifiable punishment, because they have to be WILLING participants in that punishment. They are not. Example: "The adventure says clearly, the first PC that steps on that square becomes a tree. BAM! You're a tree. Now play a tree." "But I don't want to play a tree. I want to play my Orc-fisherman-communist-barbarian." "Tough. You're now a tree. You play a tree." "I roll up another PC exactly like my PC before he became a tree." "You can't. You have to play a tree." "I quit." "You can't quit - you have to come back here and play a tree and LIKE IT!" Same as if they randomly change from male to female. Doesn't matter that they had it coming to them. You can't FORCE them to play along with their punishment if they really don't want to. You're only pushing them to drastic actions to get out from under it or never-ending misery and dislike of you and your campaign. Even if they do accept it as punishment, you can't force them to LIKE it and you forevermore have unhappy players that only get less happy the more insistent you are that they play female PC's they now DON'T like, that were formerly male and DID like. Call your game a total loss or give them an out they WILL accept. Have some compassionate Female deity of Female Womanliness show up and say, "You are all PATHETIC examples of females of your species and ungrateful for the [I]blessing[/I] you have been given. That one even has a beard! I will not tolerate you being female any longer. You are all hereby [I]cursed[/I] to be male. Serves you right." Then for the future be aware of other roleplaying challenges that players DON'T have to go along with if they really don't want to, no matter how much they might deserve the burden - like forced changes to race, class, alignment... [/QUOTE]
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