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<blockquote data-quote="Bardsandsages" data-source="post: 3510288" data-attributes="member: 28771">Well, I seem to remember the outrage when White Wolf ended the Old World of Darkness (even though they had always said they were eventually going to, nobody believed they would).&nbsp; And these were gamers who WANTED to play angst&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;&nbsp; So if you've been running your standard D&amp;D fare and suddenly turn the game into a no-win-you-all-die-and-there's-nothing-you-can-do scenario, you risk ticking people off.You don't have to destroy the world...just civilization.&nbsp; I once set up a modern game where the first few sessions the party was doing the typical adventure stuff, and then I just had a nuclear war break out.&nbsp; The party had been in the basement of a hospital talking with the coroner about a dead body (the hospital was build over an old bomb shelter--so the basement was actually the bomb shelter).&nbsp; One minute they are investigating a string of murders, the next they are confronted with mutants and just finding drinkable water.&nbsp;&nbsp; They ended up rounding up other survivors and eventually finding a safe place to rebuild.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bardsandsages, post: 3510288, member: 28771"] Well, I seem to remember the outrage when White Wolf ended the Old World of Darkness (even though they had always said they were eventually going to, nobody believed they would). And these were gamers who WANTED to play angst :) So if you've been running your standard D&D fare and suddenly turn the game into a no-win-you-all-die-and-there's-nothing-you-can-do scenario, you risk ticking people off. You don't have to destroy the world...just civilization. I once set up a modern game where the first few sessions the party was doing the typical adventure stuff, and then I just had a nuclear war break out. The party had been in the basement of a hospital talking with the coroner about a dead body (the hospital was build over an old bomb shelter--so the basement was actually the bomb shelter). One minute they are investigating a string of murders, the next they are confronted with mutants and just finding drinkable water. They ended up rounding up other survivors and eventually finding a safe place to rebuild. [/QUOTE]

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