02-12-2020, 11:31 AM | #31 | |
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Location: Chatham, Kent, England
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The result of the negotiations was: 'he' the Warlord launched his invasion using his own non-five-tribes (sometimes exiles, sometimes those who would not bend the knee to their own khan) men without the aid of anyone else of the said tribes. The fallout of this could be game-world-changing, but more likely will be a historical footnote for the Shou Empire. |
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02-12-2020, 11:59 AM | #32 | |
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Oz
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02-17-2020, 01:18 AM | #33 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
Well... who ever counted them? (*)
(*) Which is, I suppose, a truly murderous attitude. |
02-17-2020, 02:17 AM | #34 | |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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For the vast majority, they admit freely that they have no idea. Combat is confusing and for the most part, people are shooting at noise and flashes, perhaps the occasional shape, not at individual people. Even when you see someone clearly and even if he drops when you are shooting at him, chances are that others were shooting in that direction too. Even if not, how many people are going to check if their fire simply suppressed the opposition by causing them to dive for cover, if they wounded them or if they killed them? And while I don't have any conclusive evidence, my unscientific survey of the literature indicates that there is a correlation between those who do not dwell on the most psychologically traumatic events of their service and those who go on to have successful post-war lives. Excessive focus on replaying intense scenes of combat in their mind, self-recriminations, what-if scenarios and so forth seem contra-indicated. So whenever I create characters with extensive combat experience, especially if they are not primarily defined by psychological trauma which to a greater or lesser degree prevents them from leading healthy and functional lives, they tend to have coping mechanisms that include avoiding a preoccupation with the consequences of their profession. Kill counts are morbid and unprofessional. Even for scout-snipers or other specialists that engage enemies one by one, success is defined by achieving tactical objectives, not by killing people. I don't think that any of my characters would ever have denied that their profession was one where they had killed, but not a single one of them would ever have counted kills. Counting the members of the OpFor and how many of them remain combat effective, yes, but as long as someone has been rendered no longer a threat, it is irrelevant who did so or how. *And he, in turn, claimed that remembering their faces was the least he could do, under the circumstances.
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02-17-2020, 10:12 AM | #35 | |
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Location: Udine, Italy
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And, indeed, in RPGs it could have been possible for us to count heads, especially back in the day before we turned to GURPS and never looked back. Because at the time, "XP" was mainly killed enemies (well, and treasure too). But we didn't. I don't mean that we did not keep count because we were murderous, at least in mindset; we simply did not care that much. That said, I still maintain that a true, cold-blooded dungeon raider wouldn't waste time counting how many goblins he had killed. Also, I don't know whether I would compare body counting in large-scale battles with firearms and artillery and air strikes, with doing the same in skirmish-level hand-to-hand combat in a dungeon room. Last edited by Michele; 02-17-2020 at 10:16 AM. |
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02-17-2020, 05:17 PM | #36 |
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
How do you define kill?
My one character, an elf archer, has 163 kills and 104 assists listed To her kill is 'I hit it, it stopped moving, and no enemies healed it, and none of my friends touched It' Assist is 'I hit it and my friends also hit it' |
02-18-2020, 03:55 AM | #37 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
So you do keep count, and under specific rules for that. May I ask why?
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02-18-2020, 09:06 AM | #38 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
I have a character who keeps count, because he's a bit insecure about the privileged position he occupies, and wants to reassure himself that he's doing his job adequately.
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02-18-2020, 09:47 AM | #39 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
Thanks! Part of the character concept.
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02-18-2020, 10:31 AM | #40 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: Murderiest Hobo?
If he kills three people in a row, does he call it a hat-trick and celebrate?
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