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16526: Re: [MUD-Dev] New Bartle article

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From: Timothy Dang <tdang@U.Arizona.EDU>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:38:08 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Travis Casey wrote:

> To semi-quote Robert Plamondon in his book _Through Dungeons Deep: A
> Fantasy Gamer's Handbook_:
> 
>   "The story of a great hero isn't complete until it recounts that
>   hero's great and noble death."

I wonder how much does that mean the death must have a good story? 
Certainly one of my all-time-favorite paper RPG memories is of a
particularly poignant death of my character. The manner of the death
was well-tuned by a creative GM to the story, and the particulars of
my character. I don't regret this death.

I don't imagine that such a thing would be likely to happen in a MUD,
so I don't know if I could ever get the same satisfaction. I'm not a
serious RPer, though. Perhaps those who are can build the good stories
from surface events which are more mechanical?

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Timothy O'Neill Dang / Cretog8
520-884-7261
One monkey don't stop no show.

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