thread: 2011-05-11 : The Un-frickin-welcome
On 2011-05-04, David Berg wrote:
Hmm. Maybe I'm just thinking too broadly in calling stuff welcome. I mean, if this is a game where tough dilemmas are the norm, and Matt puts me in one, I'll be like, "Sweet." And so I decide that it's actually worth it to risk losing my followers. I grab the dice, still hoping I'll keep them. I roll. Crap! The maelstrom eats their brains! Cool! In character, I'm tearing my hair and declaring a holy crusade into the maelstrom to get them back!
So, the lingering reaction is "cool!" but sure, there's a moment of "crap!" Much as I know that failure needs to happen so that there's real risk in play, any given failure could still cause an instant of disappointment.
Does that qualify as an unwelcome outcome in your book? (It certainly wouldn't be unwelcome to anyone else at the table! My character's a dick who deserves to lose his followers.)
