The ripping of character sheets

[Infernal Teddy]

I set one of my Mage: the Ascension sheets on fire once, but that was after rolling 10 "1"'s on a forces-and-prime effect, so...

But gods help the idiot who trys to rip my char-sheet...

 

[Crothian]

The Declaration of Independence is "just a sheet of paper". They'll shoot you if you try to rip it up. Guess they're just over reacting, eh?

Are you claiming the Declaration of Independence is equal to a character sheet? That's really funny. News Flash: all sheets of paper are not equal and we hold that truth to be self evident

 

[Odhanan]

Okay, in the games that I am playing in the DM will rip up your character sheet if you die(we almost always make new PCs instead of being ressurected).

If you mean the physical ripping of the actual character sheet, I would would not agree with that. I love to keep my character sheets, from dead PCs and otherwise. If the DM makes a step towards my character sheet with ill intentions towards it, I'll show my teeth and growl at him.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The only PC sheet I've ever ripped up was my own.

To tear up someone else's property (barring a 1-shot mentioned above) is simply rude & juvenile.

 

[Odhanan]

If you mean the physical ripping of the actual character sheet, I would not agree with that. I love to keep my character sheets, from dead PCs and otherwise. If the DM makes a step towards my character sheet with ill intentions towards it, I'll show my teeth and growl at him.

... and if the DM touches it, I'll bite his freakin' head off!

 

[painandgreed]

It's a sheet of paper. If someone rips a piece a paper and a person jumps over the table to get the ripper, I see the potential assult quite an over reaction. Just becasue the guy ripping the sheet is in the wrong, doesn't make over reacting right.

*southern accent* I see from the location in your information, that you are a Yankee. Then I can see why you do not under stand the terms "manners" or "honor" nor the right of one to defend the latter from somebody without the former. *southern accent*

Are you claiming the Declaration of Independence is equal to a character sheet? That's really funny. News Flash: all sheets of paper are not equal and we hold that truth to be self evident

(continue souther accent) Quite correct, and MY sheet of paper is MINE. You may do what you wish to YOUR own sheet of paper, but if you try and do anything with my property that I do not wish you to, then I will take means to stop you. Certainly, misunderstandings happen, however should you understand that that sheet of paper is mine and do not care about what I want for my property, then ripping it up is a flat out declaration of wishing to fight.

 

[der_kluge]

If I need to look at something on a character sheet, sometimes I'll look it over, and then pretend to start to rip it in half. It usually gets a rise out of the player. But I've never done it.


I threw most of my 2nd edition characters away several years ago. Don't worry, most of them I only played once - my group had a horrible habit of going through campaigns like a fat woman goes through Twinkies. None held any real sentimental value. I still have all of my long-lasting 3rd edition characters.

Even if a character died, I might still play them in a different campaign under a different GM later on. Just because a character died in one game doesn't mean I can't make the same character again for another game years later.

 

[Crothian]

*southern accent* I see from the location in your information, that you are a Yankee. Then I can see why you do not under stand the terms "manners" or "honor" nor the right of one to defend the latter from somebody without the former. *southern accent*

(continue souther accent) Quite correct, and MY sheet of paper is MINE. You may do what you wish to YOUR own sheet of paper, but if you try and do anything with my property that I do not wish you to, then I will take means to stop you. Certainly, misunderstandings happen, however should you understand that that sheet of paper is mine and do not care about what I want for my property, then ripping it up is a flat out declaration of wishing to fight.

Says the guy from Seattle. You might notice I've never said that ripping someone's character sheet was good manners or honoriable. But it's only a character sheet, it is replaceiable. Fighting someone who ripps a sheet of paper is an over reaction.

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

Consider I have computer backups of all my characters, it likely wouldn't phase me. My reaction would be to join in. Why should the Gm have all the fun tearing up the sheet?

Never done it myself, but have had a player (guedo79) ripe his sheet in half. He was tired and his dice wwre hating him that night. It looked like his character was going to join the void of space, so he surrendered to the inevitable and tore his sheet in two. Of course, his character was then saved by another PC. Next game, he hadn't gotten around to printing out a new sheet, so we got to laugh as he tried holding the sheet together to read it.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

If you were in a game where this happened, would you make a copy of your character sheet everytime you leveled and keep it in secret and snicker at the stupidity of your DM every time you take it out to look at it?

I would never need to. I make all of my sheets in Word; a new sheet is only a printout away. So he could rip up the copy of my sheet that I would give him anytime he likes.