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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5859439" data-attributes="member: 9037">I think you are reading to much into this. First of all a board game is not  a RPG you do not put the same amount of effort into it as you do with an RPG. If I lose Monopoly tonight with the shoe I can still play the shoe tomorrow and win.The same with sports if I lose tonight I can still stay on my team as me and play tomorrow. With an RPG you play a character some people put a lot into that and if the character dies then the game changes it is no longer the same game. For some players that can be enough to take the fun out of it. It is not about being a sore loser.I think the game designers recognize this because they have put a way to bring characters back from the dead.I play a lot of Shadowrun which has no way to come back dead is dead but I have never lost a character in it because once we start taking bad hits we usually get pulled out by DocWagon because our injury bracelet has alerted them that we are hurt. We also cut and run and sometimes surrender.In DnD it is harder sometimes to cut and run also since there are no penalties for taking damage until you hit 1 there is no incentive to run. In Shadowrun as you take damage you start taking penalties to everything it becomes more obvious that you are losing. And without magical healing you know you have to sometimes run. I have noticed that DnD players hate running and hate surrendering. All of that can lead to a dead PC. There seems to be this attitude that if you don't like playing in a game with death as a consequence then some how you are a sore loser, baby or mentally ill. I think terms like that are overly judgmental. On one hand we applaud people who put work into their character and role play well but then we deride them when they don't enjoy having that character killed. I watched my roommate go through this in a game she lost a character she loved because of the stupid actions of the other PCs. She made a new character and eventually started really getting into that character when that character died she still played but she played differently she stopped writing journals, she stopped really role playing and she stopped putting in any effort into the character. The DM of that game had decided that raise dead was cheesy and death was permanent. By the end of the campaign we all were playing like my roommate  and the DM was unhappy going what happened this used to be an exciting game did you guys lose interest.  It was not that we had lost interest in the game but we had lost interest in putting any work into the characters.</blockquote>

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