As a GM, I'm in a tough spot. I don't want to kill a character, but I should do so anyway. It's not a semantic nit-pick, it's a direct cause-effect of a character's actions.
Right, but as you've got complete power that death had to flow from your desires. In this case it was the desire for a consistency in the game setting, letting them know you weren't messing around, or whatever. But the death was because you wanted something more then you wanted them to live.
You know, you really really need to stop opening every single fucking reply to my posts with an insult. Either that, or you would do well to stop replying to my posts altogether.
You're showing your inability to read again. I reply to your posts with insults when your posts come from a standpoint that deserves to be insulted (usually your need to state how superior you are). As such, not every post I reply with has an insult in it.
If you can't grasp that there's a gap the size of the fucking grand canyon between a GM willy-nilly killing PCs because its his fancy and a GM deciding to kill a PC because that PC SHOULD die in the game, and NOT out of the perceived bias you seem to always assume GMs will have toward the irrational, then that's your fucking problem. And it is a serious problem. You probably won't be capable of playing Amber if that's what you think all GMs are like.
1) When did I say anything about GMs killing willy-nilly because it's their fancy? I said the GM must want the death to happen, not that every time the GM gets a wild hair people are going to die.
2) When did I say anything about irrational killing? I never said anything about the causes of the deaths. Any motivations you draw for deaths mentioned by me are completely imagined.
3) Can you even read, or does every post you see twist itself into what you think it says rather then what it actually says? When did I ever even give you a hint of what types of GMs I've had, or what I think GMing should be like.
3a) If you could read, and had a memory, then you would know exactly how I GM and how the others in my group GM. You would know that I favor fairness over all things first and foremost. You would know that secondary to that I favor a rational world with traceable cause and effect. The players may not always know exactly why an NPC did something, because they won't have all the information. But I always will.
4) Please stop replying to my posts with rants, especially unfounded ones. I believe if you'll restrict yourself to replying to the things I say instead of the things you wish/think I'd said these exchanges would go much smoother. If you could couple that with refraining from carrying on about how great you are, how great your gaming style is, and how inferior anyone that doesn't agree with it is, we'd probably end up as friends eventually.