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The Heroic Impulse: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
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<blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4604465" data-attributes="member: 9255"><p>The subject you have brought up reminds me of the first time I tried to piece together a game. I placed a call xxx-xxxx if you would like to play in a game that I would DM at the local bookstore where DnD was sold.</p><p></p><p>I got a few replies. All were teenagers (I was mid 20's) and asked what they wanted.</p><p></p><p>They all wanted to KILL< KILL< KILL. Foolishly I replied I wanted to run a game with heroes. The teenagers left. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>The idea / concept of playing heroes doesn't fit in today's mentallity. Times have changed and I am still dragging my feet to "confirm" and play games based more on an evil slant.</p><p></p><p>Part of why my Creation Schema SH stalled then failed was how the players were becoming evil fighting evil to win the big prize. </p><p></p><p>It seems people no longer enjoy being good and fighting the good fight.</p><p></p><p>Why?</p><p></p><p>Well look at today's heroes.</p><p></p><p>Singers / Athletes whom all do drugs and womanize while being overpaid</p><p></p><p>Politicians- more corrupt than the crimals they are swearing to catch</p><p></p><p>and even the books and comics- Batman (vigilante) , Wolverine (cold blooded killer) and Punisher (sociopath)</p><p></p><p>It seems the closest to a "LG" hero in todays world is Harry Potter and he is manipulated constantly and people don't like that and don't want to live like that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>and as a complete side to this (though related) when I first read "Where have the heroes gone?" I think of Lethal Weapon where then the bloodied and crazed Martin Riggs comes crashing in with a dead body as a shield.</p><p></p><p>There is today's hero. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>someone else can preach now.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megamania, post: 4604465, member: 9255"] The subject you have brought up reminds me of the first time I tried to piece together a game. I placed a call xxx-xxxx if you would like to play in a game that I would DM at the local bookstore where DnD was sold. I got a few replies. All were teenagers (I was mid 20's) and asked what they wanted. They all wanted to KILL< KILL< KILL. Foolishly I replied I wanted to run a game with heroes. The teenagers left. :uhoh: The idea / concept of playing heroes doesn't fit in today's mentallity. Times have changed and I am still dragging my feet to "confirm" and play games based more on an evil slant. Part of why my Creation Schema SH stalled then failed was how the players were becoming evil fighting evil to win the big prize. It seems people no longer enjoy being good and fighting the good fight. Why? Well look at today's heroes. Singers / Athletes whom all do drugs and womanize while being overpaid Politicians- more corrupt than the crimals they are swearing to catch and even the books and comics- Batman (vigilante) , Wolverine (cold blooded killer) and Punisher (sociopath) It seems the closest to a "LG" hero in todays world is Harry Potter and he is manipulated constantly and people don't like that and don't want to live like that. and as a complete side to this (though related) when I first read "Where have the heroes gone?" I think of Lethal Weapon where then the bloodied and crazed Martin Riggs comes crashing in with a dead body as a shield. There is today's hero. :( someone else can preach now....... [/QUOTE]
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