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<blockquote data-quote="SkredlitheOgre" data-source="post: 5894730" data-attributes="member: 99513"><p>For my few groups, death is one of those things that's possible, but it still takes the players by surprise. I think they mostly don't like it because they've become attached to their characters.</p><p></p><p>Only one guy (a 3.5 campaign) has been a "sore loser" so far and really, it was his own fault, as he decided to attack someone who was supposed to give the group information even though I had talked about how powerful this person was. He couldn't believe he lost, even when I showed him the character stat block, which was a full 10 levels higher than his own. He was even more upset that the rest of the party didn't help. He and I actually had a pretty tense discussion after the session about how the NPC "shouldn't have been able to kill him" due to him being a PC. I tried calmly explaining that the PC stepped over a very clearly placed line and refused to back down, even when it was obviously he was outclassed. The player didn't "get it" and when he took his turn at DM, he tended to target my PC more often than anybody else out of a group of 7 players. I just laughed it off. Funny how he and I haven't talked since that group ended.</p><p></p><p>We had our last party member death (PF Rise of the Runelords) at our second to last session (we haven't played at all in April due to conflicting schedules). The player got smashed by a stone giant's club/hammer thingie and splatted on the floor. His entire response was "Oh, but I <em>like</em> that character!" At which point he grabbed his dice and a clean character sheet and started over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SkredlitheOgre, post: 5894730, member: 99513"] For my few groups, death is one of those things that's possible, but it still takes the players by surprise. I think they mostly don't like it because they've become attached to their characters. Only one guy (a 3.5 campaign) has been a "sore loser" so far and really, it was his own fault, as he decided to attack someone who was supposed to give the group information even though I had talked about how powerful this person was. He couldn't believe he lost, even when I showed him the character stat block, which was a full 10 levels higher than his own. He was even more upset that the rest of the party didn't help. He and I actually had a pretty tense discussion after the session about how the NPC "shouldn't have been able to kill him" due to him being a PC. I tried calmly explaining that the PC stepped over a very clearly placed line and refused to back down, even when it was obviously he was outclassed. The player didn't "get it" and when he took his turn at DM, he tended to target my PC more often than anybody else out of a group of 7 players. I just laughed it off. Funny how he and I haven't talked since that group ended. We had our last party member death (PF Rise of the Runelords) at our second to last session (we haven't played at all in April due to conflicting schedules). The player got smashed by a stone giant's club/hammer thingie and splatted on the floor. His entire response was "Oh, but I [i]like[/i] that character!" At which point he grabbed his dice and a clean character sheet and started over. [/QUOTE]
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