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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2135751" data-attributes="member: 3400">This is an interesting discussion. I think modules like ToH and RttToH are best played as one-shots because they generally don't fit into a regular campaign very well (being essentially lethal TPK exercises). What I find most interesting is the sorcerer-player's attachment to his character and how other people are responding to it. I've always found it curious that some players become super attached to their D&D characters and afraid of them dying even though there are numerous ways of coming back from the dead with relatively little fuss. Contrast that with CoC players who lose investigators at substantial rates or even Paranoia players who are positively gleeful at kicking the bucket.I have 2 theories to describe that behavior:1) D&D characters tend to exist in longer campaigns that foster attachment, while CoC characters are expected to die and/or go insane at any given moment. And Paranoia, well, there's a reason commie mutant traitors like yourself are given 6 clones each...2) D&D, being the most successful RPG since "House" and "Cops and Robbers", has the broadest collection of players and thus naturally includes the inevitable players who create and look at their PCs as a sort of avatar of themselves or some aspect of their personalities that they have or wish they had. Thus, they get really attached to the character. I think closely related to this type of player is the wannabe-writer... someone who really wants to write good stories because they think they are really creative but who doesn't have time or real skill at doing so and therefore spends an inordinate amout of time crafting their PC and their backstory.Other games, appealing to narrower gaming interests or not being as widely published, naturally get fewer of these types of players.I think both of my theories have counter arguments since you do see D&D-character attachment even in short-term campaigns and there are players who get attached to a wide cross variety of D&D characters that have no relation to their own personalities, dreams, desires, or creative writing outlets. But every once in a while I have to reflect on this issue.</blockquote>

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