Lisa Kenison <lisa.kenison@asu.edu> wrote:
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From: RainGod _ [mailto:xotzil@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:10 AM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: RE: [DL] keeping players alive
>The point of terror/horror isn't the certainty of death. It's the
>considerable probability of death combined with the hope of survival and
>triumph. I put a lot of effort into building the personalities of my
>characters. If I realize that all that work will be wasted before the
>night is over, I'm not going to put that much effort into playing the
>character. I'm also not going to play in that GM's group very long either.
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>JohnTFS
Ah...someone who's never experienced the joy of slowly losing one's marbles
>Heh. And the point of horror isn't a certainty of death? Tell that to the
>blonde girl who gets brutally defenstrated at the beginning of almost every
>horror movie I've ever seen.
>:-)
>Be seeing you...
hehehe come to one of my cthulhu games at gencon or origins
the insanity horror and blonde defenstrations flow freely hehe
but yes running a horror game is not like running d&d
and for me deadlands is sort of like running both...
i guess it doesnt phase me when a character dies personally
i dont feel like my investment was wasted..but i dont get that attacted to a
character...you play for the moment man!
and i have so many other multipersonalities of mine to play with so
if i have fun who cares ?Nobody. If you're okay with losing your characters, good for you. I don't mind playing in the against "splatterfest" (Paranoia, anyone?) once in a while. But if I'm consistently spending 1-2 hours just sitting on my ass because my character got wasted for "the horror of it", I'm not going to be horrified. I'm going to be bored and annoyed. I can be bored and annoyed at work (and often am). No, I don't want a cakewalk. Yes, I want their to be risk. But no, I do not want to be stuck in a situation where I'm twiddling my thumbs for 3.5 hours because my character was the first one ax-murderer to sate a GMs lust for a high body-count.
so come to my games and try me out :)
chicks in gaming ruleChicks in ANYTHING rule.
lisa
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