Unpleasantness(Split from Combat Tactics and Strategies) LOCKED

[O'Borg]

Originally Posted by Targan

I don't play in the game this thread is about and I have no intention of ever playing in any online campaigns like it. If others like that sort of campaign good for them. To each their own. I simply make this point - if I was playing in a campaign and it became apparent that failure would be the only likely outcome for the PCs and I was just biding my time and/or engaging in pointless activities until my PC died, I'd stop playing in that campaign. Real life is depressing enough. Why role play certain failure?

I agree and I've done it at least three times, including memorable moments like the CP2020 game where upon being captured aboard a cargo ship, my captors rolled out a highly sophisticated and expensive interrogation machine that they'd just happened to have on board, and a Savage Worlds Tour of Darkness game where my character double flunked a roll to jump a small stream and broke his leg in two places in about the second scene of the game, effectively putting him out the game for a few months.

There's no point in playing a game where the GM derives his pleasure from beating the other players, its a one sided contest and the players can't win.