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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3311215" data-attributes="member: 35788">I was torn between what I want and what I think will happen.  But I don't know.  Honestly, Miko becoming a blackguard might well cause me to quit reading the strip as much as I thoroughly enjoy it.I mean, if I want to see evil get the better of people, I'll go outside into the real world.  Or else I'll open a newspaper or turn on the television and watch the news.  I know what people are going to say ... that if there isn't a possibility of bad things happening then the game isn't real.  But I don't game to experience real life.  I game to get something real life doesn't often give: a happy ending and something that when I go to sleep I can think positively about.  I just hope Rich thinks long and hard about what he's doing.And, I know I'm in the minority with this opinion.  But I don't care.  That's how I feel about gaming.  I don't need to watch evil get the best of people when I game.  I don't need too much real life in my OotS, either.Sure, evil can challenge and make a showing (like LotR), but in the end I want the ring destroyed.  I want Tanis Half-elven to save the day.  And I want Miko to admit what she did was wrong and be forgiven and rise to a newer height of glory than she ever could have gone without understanding her major character flaw.Edit: And, for what it is worth, I don't agree with the "humor" tag used for this thread.  I don't think OotS has been particularily humorous in the past two strips.  Rich's tenor has changed.  But that's just me! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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