How Deadly Should Combat Be?

Gronan of Simmerya · October 24, 2016, 03:17:32 PM

Well said. I would have said "Richard the Lionheart can die from an infection caused by a minor wound from a crossbow quarrel at a siege of some little pisspot fortress," but same idea.

Bren · October 24, 2016, 04:00:10 PM

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;926662Well said. I would have said "Richard the Lionheart can die from an infection caused by a minor wound from a crossbow quarrel at a siege of some little pisspot fortress," but same idea.

Those damn crossbow thingies were dangerous. Somebody should have tried to outlaw them.

Omega · October 25, 2016, 03:51:11 AM

Quote from: CRKrueger;926657That's where the difference between Playing in a Movie or Book and Playing a World comes in. If you think you're playing in a movie or book, you expect challenge and bad things and maybe death, but you expect maybe a dramatic death at the hands of the BBEG, not to get hamstrung and curbstomped by Minions#7-9.

I thought I was in an RPG game where I may be killed by any given cat at any moment?

Bren · October 25, 2016, 10:57:08 AM

Quote from: Omega;926807I thought I was in an RPG game where I may be killed by any given cat at any moment?

Kind of explains folks who are afraid of cats though, doesn't it?

AsenRG · October 25, 2016, 11:39:41 AM

Quote from: CRKrueger;926657That's where the difference between Playing in a Movie or Book and Playing a World comes in. If you think you're playing in a movie or book, you expect challenge and bad things and maybe death, but you expect maybe a dramatic death at the hands of the BBEG, not to get hamstrung and curbstomped by Minions#7-9.

When you're Playing in a World, you are not a Literary Protagonist. You're just a person, maybe an expectionally gifted, ridiculously powerful person, but just a person nonetheless. The difference between Alexander and a random camp follower in the baggage train is one of Degree not one of Kind. Playing in a World, a Dunedain or Noldor can take a Bolt to the Brainpan just like a Hobbit can.

It's the difference between Mortality and Literary Mortality.

You mean, you can be hamstrung by a small guy with an antic sword and smashed by some chick who put on armour, both of whom you were going to kill without issues? Even if there was a prediction that no mortal man could ever kill you:p?
Damn, those games are totally unfair, just like life;)!

RPGPundit · October 31, 2016, 08:47:14 PM

Quote from: CRKrueger;926657That's where the difference between Playing in a Movie or Book and Playing a World comes in. If you think you're playing in a movie or book, you expect challenge and bad things and maybe death, but you expect maybe a dramatic death at the hands of the BBEG, not to get hamstrung and curbstomped by Minions#7-9.

When you're Playing in a World, you are not a Literary Protagonist. You're just a person, maybe an expectionally gifted, ridiculously powerful person, but just a person nonetheless. The difference between Alexander and a random camp follower in the baggage train is one of Degree not one of Kind. Playing in a World, a Dunedain or Noldor can take a Bolt to the Brainpan just like a Hobbit can.

It's the difference between Mortality and Literary Mortality.

Well put.

How Deadly Should Combat Be?

Gronan of Simmerya

Bren

Omega

Bren

AsenRG

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