Re: Killing off players... er... characters

From: silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)

Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000

In article <5pjd4p$m4b@darkstar.ucsc.edu>,
flemyng@cse.ucsc.edu (E.P. Flemyng) wrote:
>Karen Cravens brings up an excellent point (in addition to making a
>laudable attempt to get this newsgroup off of tired threads!) in bringing

Laudable, that's my middle name...

>up the question of killing PCs. I've never run a money-making RPG pbm,
>but when I ran a hobby RPG/pbm, I warned players that really stupid
>decisions and actions could result in death to characters. I recall
>doing my best to ameliorate the the whims of god so characters didn't
>die "for the wrong reasons." Not sure how this would fit in with
>computer moderated for-profit games, but my partner the computer-whiz

Computer-moderated is a whole different beast, though.  If you're
playing a strategy game (as a computer-moderated game is), you
*should* die when the rules require it.  Roleplaying is a
different matter, and death is obligate in some games and not in
others, depending on the genre... you wouldn't expect an NPC,
even, to die in an A-Team episode, but you expect people to die
in a horror movie.

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References

Killing off players... er... characters
silver@phoenyx.net (Karen J. Cravens)
Thu, 03 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Killing off players... er... characters
flemyng@cse.ucsc.edu (E.P. Flemyng)
Fri, 04 Jul 1997 00:00:00 +0000