this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
121 points (97.6% liked)

RPGMemes

10012 readers
261 users here now

Humor, jokes, memes about TTRPGs

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ENipo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I've been a player for a few years and a dm for a few months now.

Hearing this as a player would completely kill my immersion and turn the campaign into an arcade game in my head. If you are allowed to say this, then I am allowed to hot reload when doing something stupid because having my pc die would throw out all of the work I've put into them and their back story.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There should be consideration given to both sides of this. The campaign is, in a sense, the DM's character. In an ideal world the DM would account for everything and the players won't be able to derail it utterly, but in the real world occasionally something will slip through and I think the players should allow for this kind of whoopsie. Just like if a player who had a deep investment in a character did something that unexpectedly and pointlessly killed their character off, I would be open to giving them "backsies." As long as they were open to it.

Might be worth adding this to the session-zero discussion.

[–] sammytheman666@ttrpg.network 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I thought this was for another post. I deleted my first answer.

Heh. not really. It's like tchecow's armor in a way. Or for another example, the chainshirt made of mithrill that then saves Frodo.