From: Robert McArthur (mcarthur@fit.qut.edu.au)
Date: Wed 15 Jan 1997 - 13:05:07 EET
> David Cake said:
Heroes and superheroes are hard to kill...it's even harder to keep them dead!
>
> >Ideally, I would like to see rules that made it obvious that
> >Harrek could be killed, and also made it obvious that no mere
> >clever tricks with a 100 initiates would do it,...
>
> But you have to consider which comes first: is Harrek a hero because he
> does heroic things? Or can he do heroic things because he is a hero?
>
> If the Axe Maiden can get 100 initiates to loan her their spells, and
> can handle the magical surge, this lets her have a shot at Harrek, but
> it also means she's pretty damn good. She still has to beat Harrek in
> the fight, but she has a chance. Only a Hero can beat Harrek? But if
> she beats him, doesn't _that_ prove she was a hero all along? Actually,
> doesn't that make her a hero _now_?
>
> What, after all, was Harrek before he killed the bear?
Perhaps I've got heroquesting all wrong, but my understanding of becoming a
hero is that you have a backdoor out of hell: at least the same one as used
by your god. Thus, heroes (and superheroes) may actually *be* killed by
some enourmous act. The big problem is stopping the b&gger from coming back
from the dead and either a) coming back just after you've killed 'em, or
b) looking up your address later.
Robert McArthur
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PS. after all RL/RPs get DI, shamans get to come back!
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