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Feeling bad for Fictional Deaths

Mar 13, 2010#1

Green_Lantern

I am in a tabletop roleplaying group... it is a super-hero game and we are having a mental debate with the super-villain who is the most powerfull being in the planet able to summon armies from any point in history... well...

One of the players has a mary sue wannabe character who provoked him.

the result? he in a few seconds destroyed Tampa, caused 200 millions deaths and 300 milliosn wounded.

I actually feeling boomed about it, is it normal?

Mar 13, 2010#2

Shegokigo

You feel

about it?

Mar 13, 2010#3

Hailey Knight

No, it's not normal to feel like a fat guy has just hosed you with vomit and bile for killing fictional non-characters.

Mar 13, 2010#4

Dave

It's normal as long as you don't obsess about it.

Mar 13, 2010#5

Green_Lantern

Shegokigo said:
You feel

about it?

I really din't get the reference

Mar 13, 2010#6

Hailey Knight

Green_Lantern said:
I actually feeling boomed about it, is it normal?

Emphasis added.

Mar 13, 2010#7

Dave

Boomed must be Brazilian slang for what we call "bummed".

Mar 13, 2010#8

Hailey Knight

I honestly wouldn't have noticed if not for Shego.

Mar 13, 2010#9

Green_Lantern

Dave said:
Boomed must be Brazilian slang for what we call "bummed".

I thoughed that it was written like that. =|

Mar 13, 2010#10

Rob King

I don't want to go so far as to say that it's normal, but it's not strange to me that you would feel that way.

Mar 13, 2010#11

Deschain

It's part of role-playing. Just don't take it too far.

Mar 13, 2010#12

Green_Lantern

Deschain said:
It's part of role-playing. Just don't take it too far.

I am not going to hurt myself or anything. But is depressing like when you watch a movie and something like that happens =|

Mar 13, 2010#13

Allen, who is Quiet

As long as you can adjust to life after Black Leaf, you'll be fine.

Mar 13, 2010#14

bhamv3

It means the story is being told well.

I've felt bad about characters dying in movies, tv shows, novels etc. (Oh god, Robinton still makes me cry)

Mar 13, 2010#15

Deschain

As long as you can adjust to life after Black Leaf, you'll be fine.

You've opened up wounds I thought had healed over. Now I need to purge my emotions with ice cream and butter.

Mar 13, 2010#16

Allen, who is Quiet

Deschain, get out of here. YOU'RE DEAD! You don't exist anymore.

Mar 13, 2010#17

Gusto

Whenever I've seen a PC die in DnD it's usually followed by a few seconds of stunned silence and then ranting and/or laughter.

Mar 13, 2010#18

Calleja

Mufasa.

Mar 13, 2010#19

Rob King

You bastard.

Mar 13, 2010#20

Iaculus

Obligatory for this thread:

Mar 13, 2010#21

Shegokigo

Green_Lantern;353896][QUOTE=Dave said:
Boomed must be Brazilian slang for what we call \"bummed\".

I thoughed that it was written like that. =|[/QUOTE]

Mar 14, 2010#22

General Specific

Mar 14, 2010#23

Shawn

The players in my online game were tricked into bringing a cursed artifact into a temple of Pelor, desicrating the temple and unleashing an army of the undead that took it over and killed a good number of people in the process.

Mar 14, 2010#24

Hailey Knight

Shawnacy said:
The players in my online game were tricked into bringing a cursed artifact into a temple of Pelor, desicrating the temple and unleashing an army of the undead that took it over and killed a good number of people in the process.

It was given to us by Sullenpike, the exposition NPC! We were supposed to trust him!

It wasn't my fault... As with many events that involved the harm of others, I blame Adia and Errick.

Mar 14, 2010#25

Shawn

I still never really decided for certain if Sullenpike was under Acererack's control, or he was tricked into it.

Mar 14, 2010#26

doomdragon6

Everytime our DnD characters kill a sentient NPC, I feel bad. I always want to use non-lethal force.

Life is valuable!

Mar 14, 2010#27

Gusto

escushion said:
As with many events that involved the harm of others, I blame Adia and Errick.

As with every time you blame Adia and myself, I blame Adia.

Mar 14, 2010#28

Allen, who is Quiet

doomdragon6 said:
Everytime our DnD characters kill a sentient NPC, I feel bad. I always want to use non-lethal force.

Life is valuable!

You'd like adventuring with my sarcastic or charismatic characters. I'm a big fan of using verbal force.

Mar 14, 2010#29

Hailey Knight

All verbal force did for my character was get three wimpy bird-people to drop their weapons and piss their pants, once.

Fighters aren't much on the verbage :/.

Mar 14, 2010#30

Allen, who is Quiet

Verbal force allowed me to avoid the final boss fight of the campaign.

Mar 14, 2010#31

Shegokigo

Did someone say.... verbal force?
/

Mar 15, 2010#32

Calleja

You want verbal force?
View attachment 403

Mar 15, 2010#33

Philosopher B.

General Specific said:
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Mar 15, 2010#34

Calleja

Yeah, I didn't want to say anything but bringing Wash out is uncalled for and in poor taste.

Mar 15, 2010#35

Rob King

I've been trying to scroll past that post as quickly as I can.

It still hurts

Mar 15, 2010#36

fade

We need another "saddest fictional moment" thread. I'm serious--it's not sarcasm.

Mar 15, 2010#37

Fun Size

Don't look at me. Last time I asked about the saddest thing, I couldn't get out of bed for a week.

---------- Post added at 04:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:02 PM ----------

Also: if a major character of a story dies, and I don't feel anything one way or another, the author has failed.

Mar 15, 2010#38

North_Ranger

I admit feeling a little bummed about my 4th-level Dragonborn paladin Vashir. He ended up becoming a canned lunch for a chaos beast.

All because our stupid rogue decided to study a Negative Space Wedgie by throwing knives at it...

I paid back in our Changeling campaign, where I (admittedly accidentally) turned a "okay, let's talk this over and we can all go home" situation with the police into an "AAARGHH!! SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT!" situation that almost killed two player characters

Mar 15, 2010#39

bigcountry23

The one I can remember that shocked me the most.

Mar 15, 2010#40

Chibibar

Thus far, fictional character in movies and games can affect me a little, but I don't let it "take over"

I do get teary when someone brought up Firefly

Arieth.... not so much.

She is such a tease now (after watching Advent Children)

Mar 15, 2010#41

IronBrig4

I remember the first time I saw Doctor Horrible. After the death ray blew up and Captain Hammer ran away crying I thought, "Great. Doctor Horrible won! Now I wonder how Penny's gonna take it... aww crap."

In the D&D campaign that I ran for about a year and a half we had quite a few interesting NPCs. The players and I forgot their names so they eventually became known by simple labels such as "The Mayor," "That Chinese Guy," or "That Metrosexual Halfling Tailor." We grew attached to them since they were usually persistent characters. This affected the players' behavior in two ways. First, they weren't tempted to slit the NPCs throats out of hand or to get a few copper pieces (I made the mistake of allowing evil PCs). Second, it actually made am impression when an NPC died.

Mar 15, 2010#42

Gusto

More than Aerith =

Mar 15, 2010#43

Green_Lantern

oh god, it has been more than five years, and I still can't get over T-T

Mar 15, 2010#44

phil

Green_Lantern said:
I am in a tabletop roleplaying group... it is a super-hero game and we are having a mental debate with the super-villain who is the most powerfull being in the planet able to summon armies from any point in history... well...

One of the players has a mary sue wannabe character who provoked him.

the result? he in a few seconds destroyed Tampa, caused 200 millions deaths and 300 milliosn wounded.

I actually feeling boomed about it, is it normal?

it's reckless cowboy vigilanties like you that make super hero registration a necessity! Who gave you the right to play god? A mask is not a badge! Arghablarghablarrrrrrrgh!

Mar 15, 2010#45

fade

I just couldn't get into Dr. Horrible, so when [strike]Skeletor[/strike] Penny died, I was like, "meh".

I think it's Whedon's dialogue--it just makes his characters so fake sounding.

Mar 15, 2010#46