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Originally Posted by Icelander
I was pretty sure I'd ruined everything by taking pretty much every single heroic adventure trope out behind a shed and shooting it, ending the central conflict with Warden Tyrrell in a terribly anti-climatic way and then going on to execute the Big Bad before he even had time to launch into a villainous speech.
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This might be considered "ruining" for film or TV, but what it actually did for an RPG was to make things stranger and less certain, which is just fine.
What Taylor did was take terrible risks with his future to settle the situation as quickly and thoroughly as possible. He was a character responding to his and his friends' needs and situation, not the desire of a distant audience to have entertainment that's easy to process.
This has been the best thread for years on these forums, and its lack of trope-driven behaviour on the part of the characters is a major part of that.