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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xarlen" data-source="post: 588138" data-attributes="member: 1060">Last session, I upset one of my players.I had created a druid who was working with some Blight Magic users. The reason she was working with them, is because she was insane. The blight magic user 'took her under his wing', after nursing her back to health.The reason she went insane is this: she was an elven druid, who was pregnant with twins. There was an accident; I never spesified, but along the lines of a rock slide, and she had a miscarriage.Because elves are so intune with nature and life, some Druids regard the beginninf of life as an important event, a part of the cycle, and she was so intune with the child that... She snapped. (I will note this was an Online game, so I wasn't actually yelling at the PC)So she was doing rather horrible things when the PCs found her; removing the heart from a living Drow, paticularly. During the fight, she was shrieking at the female PC (female player), calling her sister life. Accusing her of betrayal, holding the scar on her stomach. She came after the PC, paticularly. She called the plants and her animal companion her 'children'.When it was all over, the female PC held the druid, after the druid accused her of taking her children. The PC talked her down, and held her, and carried her around (Because she really didnt' trust the druid for one thing), and they needed info out of her.After the game, the player told me they were very bothered by this. That they wished I had chosen a different reason for the Druid's madness. That they were reminded of just how young I am. I thought this would make the NPC seem more Real. That it would not make them seem like someone else, but that it was a Reasonable thing, and it made that all the more compelling. I wanted sympathy for the druid, I wanted pity, instead of 'Kill her, put her down, she's a threat'. But I didn't want to hurt anyone.I feel really bad about that, that I touched a nerve that I didn't think about. That I should have thought about. Did I do the wrong thing? Where are the lines that we aren't supposed to cross? Anyways, I just had to get that off my chest.</blockquote>

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