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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8772151" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>JMS has 2 great stories from Babylon 5... but the one that I remember best is the death of a character.</p><p></p><p>as an almost throw away episode he wrote a machine that could drain someones life force to realive another who was on deaths door. He also wrote a character as totally head over heals in love with another character (played for laughs alot). He however also wrote that same character as a big damn hero who was willing to die for what he beleived in... </p><p></p><p>so he wrote the scene where the person was laying there dieing... and everyone was sad... and they were supposed to die. Then his mind would not let him type it... instead the other big damn hero stole teh machine sacraficed himself and saved the other... keep in mind the now dead character had plots to go, and the one now alive did not have pre planned plots.</p><p></p><p>could he have just said "and then she died" sure... but it felt right in the moment to say "He saves her" then that just rewrote the narrative.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I have had NPCs that this (not exact) thing has happened with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 8772151, member: 67338"] JMS has 2 great stories from Babylon 5... but the one that I remember best is the death of a character. as an almost throw away episode he wrote a machine that could drain someones life force to realive another who was on deaths door. He also wrote a character as totally head over heals in love with another character (played for laughs alot). He however also wrote that same character as a big damn hero who was willing to die for what he beleived in... so he wrote the scene where the person was laying there dieing... and everyone was sad... and they were supposed to die. Then his mind would not let him type it... instead the other big damn hero stole teh machine sacraficed himself and saved the other... keep in mind the now dead character had plots to go, and the one now alive did not have pre planned plots. could he have just said "and then she died" sure... but it felt right in the moment to say "He saves her" then that just rewrote the narrative. I have had NPCs that this (not exact) thing has happened with. [/QUOTE]
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