So WHY does your character kill? Is it just 'business,' or a means to an end? Gotta deadline a few corpo mercs to pull the job off? Are they killing to make things better - wiping out monsters and bandits? Or do you just play characters that enjoy violence for what it is?
By the way, 13 Blessings did nothing wrong.
My character heals. She's not killed anything or anyone ever.
Alright, but how does she feel about working in cooperation with - I assume - a group of confederates who do kill regularly?
She is trying to maintain the balance. Always takes the position trying to minimise harm done, preferring diplomacy or even subterfuge and deception.
At least once she want after defeated animal after the battle, that managed to run away, and healed it.
The first post, and yet, it's the bottom.
Is this the cherry popping thread? The thread where we discuss the great roleplay moment of a character gaining their first kill? One of the best repeatable character roleplaying moments available to games with lethal combat? The topic for Kuzco?
>13 Blessings did nothing wrong.
Everyone got nuked m8.
Better nuked than a coward's peace with an enemy.
They could have done something that caused a slow escalation and a gradual return to violence instead of rushing and going full apocalypse.
That's the thing, though. Adventuring tends to be a profession of choice. If you're just chilling in your village and some greenskin chimpazoid tries to bust down the door, yeah, it's simple kill or be killed. But it's a bit different if you go 'I'm going to live a life where killing is normal.' I'm not trying to imply there's a right or wrong answer, just curious what a given character has for their own.
My character operates on Bugs Bunny rules. He never picks a fight, he only reacts to other people trying to fight him. Self-defense situations, you know. You hurt me, you get hurt. You try to kill me, you get killed. He'd be perfectly happy just doing his job as an investigator if he never had to fight - but that's rarely the case.
because its a fricking game? What about you?
Why is it always innocuous questions that get reactions like this? The weird assumption that it can never be a question for the sake of it, it has to be framed as pushing an ideology or propaganda despite never saying anything about it
I'm guessing it's just one or two people that don't give a shit and want to get a reaction out of people, but it's consistent
Look up "Bikeshedding."
Basically, if you have to read and think to be able to say something that won't immediately get you laughed at as a moron, it deters morons from saying anything.
So the more trifling the subject matter is - at least on the surface, in its most basic expression - the more morons will be attracted. Even if they're still too stupid to read and respond to it, just not seeing a wall of text makes them more comfortable.
Even when trolling, people don't want to be around a bunch of people who make them feel inferior.
My character is a knight and all the "people" he killed were low-born, so it was more like culling unruly animals.
Just for fun. And no, I don't play as a cheap Joker, my character is a quiet farm boy who is a little bit unhinged.
Raiders deserve everything they get. If they didn't want me to shove a 40mm grenade through their skull all they had to do was not slaughter randos for fun.
Literally just don't violate the NAP.
Praise God and pass the hollow points.
My characters kill monsters out of self-defense and for food.
My characters "kill" undead, because their existence is an abomination against nature, and they drain the land of its mana.
My characters kill the draconic invaders, because their mere presence makes the magma bubble, boil, and explode, eventually turning the lands into a burning, ashen hellscape.
In my games, to kill isn't a moral question, it's a matter of survival against objective destruction. Some of them do enjoy the challenge of the fight, others enjoy purging evils, while others do it solely out of necessity; but in the end, it HAS to be done.
What do you mean "why"? Nothing can stop me killing, so...
My characters tend not to kill humanoids, unless it's inevitable.
Monsters, undead and wild, rabid animals are fair game tho.
This is, and remains, an incredibly stupid question. Violence is a useful tool which is why all lifeforms in every Kingdom of biology at every scale will use it. You can only ask this question if you're a trained idiot with a hyper-specific philosophy custom designed to make it easier to do violence to you without responding in kind.
You could have just said "My character believes, ideologically, that violence is just another tool." Don't you play anything other than self-inserts though?
Thank you for proving my point for me, Post-Enlightenment Liberal Centrist.
Because his church relies on him to smite evil.
Commando turned commander in the Rebel Alliance. He doesn't like taking lives, often goes to risky ends to minimize casualties as much as possible without sacrificing the battle itself. He's not naturally violent at all, but circumstance has forced him into it and turns out, he's quite good at it. He'd love to be doing just about anything else, but he knows that if he doesn't, the Galaxy could remain in the hands of planet destroying lunatics who want to strip mine everything for eternity.
He's often taken aback by how casually others treat taking a life, some even revelling in it. Recently, he heard some two bit hired gun mocking him for "setting to stun". It set something off in him, and he's nearing his breaking point. He's starting to wonder if he's valuing the lives of scumbags too highly, and if it's worth risking another good life on their behalf.
Sad truth is, some men just need killin' and who's he to not give a man what he needs?
Killing is part of his station in life, to some extent his purpose in life. As a knight he was raised to fight and to kill, whether defending the peasants of his fiefdom from bandits and mountain clans, or called up to serve the king in war. He doesn't necessarily enjoy ending people's lives but conflict is an inevitability of the world he lives in and righteous killing is a moral good.
Also, he enjoys fighting; the thrill of risking your life, of flashing swords, of blooding rushing through your veins makes the joust or the tournament melee pale in comparison.
I play murderous lunatics, So violence is the end goal.
I don't want to get stronger. I don't care about testing myself. I just want to kill things until something kills me.
His beloved was killed in the second session.
He'd say he only kills to defend her legacy and when called to do so by his duty as a rogue trader (having inherited the Warrant from his beloved when she died).
He'd acknowledge that he has sworn to kill everyone even tangentially involved in her assassination and will let nothing stand in the way of that goal, nor will he let anything stand in the way of his quest to somehow bring her back to life.
Subconsciously though, her death has left him raging at the universe. If he has the opportunity and reasonable excuse then he will kill or destroy whatever he can. Why should other people live when his beloved does not? Why should the universe exist without her in it?
The thrill. The challenge. If the kid were born in a more barbaric time he'd be a hero. The protector of his village, the hunter of monsters and slayer of evil. But those with such an affinity for violence are seen as thugs and outcasts in todays more 'civilized' world, heading for prison at best or a mass shooting at worst. An unstable home life doesn't help things. He's left alone to stew in his own confusion and anger and loneliness, unable to stay still but with nowhere to go and nothing to fight for, he wanders the city streets at all hours of the night, picking fights and feeling just a little more alive with every bruise and broken bone.
It was ironically that wanderlust that saved him. Because monsters still exist in the world of darkness, and heroes do too. They just call themselves hunters now.
And those hunters were more than willing to take an eager teen with a killer instinct under their wings and teach him how to be everything he could have ever been.
So far it's mostly been just self-defense, and just being a part of the job. She'd probably spare them if that was an option.
She's evil (both by nature and nurture). She thinks that everyone is a means to an end. And she enjoys violence.
Currently?
>It's the post-apocalypse, besides they shot at me first.
Past two characters respond with
>They are between me and power and they would not spare me
and
>They're CLANKERS I don't deal with CLANKERS
The deaths alleviate suffering, either of the person dying or of someone else (but also the person dying). Either way, he's eager to retire from killing pretty soon.
Also, it's 50 Blessings. 13 blessings is a different thing. Jesus Christ, you fricking secondaries. At least play the fricking game. It goes on sale all the time. You can beat it in, like, three hours.
Because people keep trying to kill him
I don't know. All I know is that I must kill.
To aquire women!!!!