Re: The Love Thread (Or Just Warms and Fuzzies)
In today's session of "The Dark Eye" (German RP system like DnD), the plot unleashed some doppelgangers of ourselves onto us - only that they weren't really doppelgangers, but visions of our future selves, playing on our respective weaknesses. They would keep on attacking us, taunting us and revive again and again - until each of us had an epiphany about themselves. The others weren't really buying it, but my character's specter rocked both him and me. I was playing a relatively standard fighter - no home, no family - and somehow the DM picked up on that, turned it around and used it to crack him open.
"Blood and Death. Blood and Death is all we ever wanted, and you know it to be true. One day this is going to be your death, and you'll have died for nothing, for no cause. I know. I'm you."
"Well, what do you want?"
"I want you to realize that all this battling will one day be the death of you."
"Well, I CAN'T STOP!" Fighting is all I have ever done.
Blammo! Epiphany. All out of a sudden, my character now has an identity crisis. What is he fighting for? (Well, in this plot it's to prevent a great evil to be resurrected, but in the overarching sense? Regarding his life?)
It's time he finds something worth fighting for, I realized.
I honestly think that was one of the best roleplaying experiences I ever had.