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Subverting expectations
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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That's novice stuff. It's a cheap emotional gut-punch that weakens that character's ties to the world and story. You can do so much more if you keep them alive:
You know when your parents ask you to fix the printer because you're the IT person in the house? That, but it's goblins. You're the goblin-fighter person in the house. And you're getting paid in a dessert your mum was making anyway.
“The Hansen boy killed three dragons this year, that must be so nice, they must be proud.”
I meant kill the nice PC not the character's parents but I meant it as a joke I know it's weak storytelling
if you're actually trying to make a good story your ideas are good lol
Oh, yeah, that's totally a good thing to do with living parents too. Someone has to inform them what happened to their child, after all.
After one of my PCs died, my planned backup was going to be of the same class and race, but a few years younger and motivated by a desire to travel with her brother. The brother who had just died, and she didn't know. I am so sad schedule issues got in the way of that...