How to get spotlight time
Sep. 18th, 2008 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
subplotkudzuI'm re-reading Arturo Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste novels right now, and much as I get a little annoyed by his "woman as the devil" motif (classic as it is in both pulp fiction and the Dumas stories he's using for inspiration), one has to admire the player who has a cajones to take both "Mortal Enemy" and "Irrational Love: Mortal Enemy" for their character.
"I beleive that I have recounted previously that youthful or not, I was obsessively in love with that seniorita....Only later I learned how misleading the blond curls and blue eyes of that angelic-looking girl could be, the cause of my so often finding myself on the verge of sacrificing my honor and my life. In spite of everything I went on loving her to the end. And even now with Angelica de Alquezar and the others are gone, familiar ghosts in my memory, I swear to God above and to all the demons of Hell - where she is most surely a bright flame today - that I love her still."
To me, this clearly falls into the category of the player and player character coming self-hosing. Makes my job as GM so much easier when they ask for pillow talk with their love interest to include the line "I am glad I have not killed you yet." It's also a sure fire way to make sure that at least some game time is dedicated to them - far more so then the players/PCs who are obsessive about never making miskates or putting their PCs at risk, and often a lot more fun
"I beleive that I have recounted previously that youthful or not, I was obsessively in love with that seniorita....Only later I learned how misleading the blond curls and blue eyes of that angelic-looking girl could be, the cause of my so often finding myself on the verge of sacrificing my honor and my life. In spite of everything I went on loving her to the end. And even now with Angelica de Alquezar and the others are gone, familiar ghosts in my memory, I swear to God above and to all the demons of Hell - where she is most surely a bright flame today - that I love her still."
To me, this clearly falls into the category of the player and player character coming self-hosing. Makes my job as GM so much easier when they ask for pillow talk with their love interest to include the line "I am glad I have not killed you yet." It's also a sure fire way to make sure that at least some game time is dedicated to them - far more so then the players/PCs who are obsessive about never making miskates or putting their PCs at risk, and often a lot more fun
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Date: 2008-09-19 12:25 pm (UTC)