Why oh why you have to send another spike of excitement to us? Why cant you let the dead in the grave?
Why cant you let the dead in the grave?
Thats not a problem. First, the outcome is at your hand. Any superficial choice we could make, as to which gloves to wear, can have consequences 5 updates later, where another party now lacks the proper hand attire and gets booed at a "homosexual vampires" gathering.Making the choices 'real' choices. I think I got a bit better at this as it went along, but some of the bad false choices from the first part, which were these momentary reactions rather than considered actions, still really piss me off. Part of the problem was the immediate, one-night-at-a-time style I picked for the narration, which meant I couldn't really skip forward in time to get to a meaningful choice, like root or the Barbarian could in their LPs. It was a mistake.
Easy. Dont kill him. Dont worry about it. The protagonists in books have the tendency to survive till the end despite mortal danger (lol) throughout the book. As long as the dudes who vote believe that their dude is in danger, everything is fine. Your job is to make them believe. Hell, even if they dont believe, everything is still fine, since we want to see the end of the book, what/whenever it might be. If you personally have a problem with it and think that he should have died for choice A but the book is not at the end yet, lower his status a notch. Lose friends, alienate people. In my opinion you did exactly that rather well, better than TV garbage like Breaking Bad that just goes on and on and on in permanent and comical status quo.Nature of the protagonist. Again, when root or the Barbarian did more wide-scope IFs, of if you're DMing with a group of friends, you can kill off a fuckton of characters without worrying about ruining the momentum, whereas I think with pretty much all of these 'you are collectively a single hero' LPs (at least all of the ones I've read on the Codex) killing the hero means bringing the game to a screeching halt and starting it up all over again, so you worry endlessly about killing them in an arbitrary way that feels like a shitty anticlimax, so you end up just not killing them when they deserve it. I mean, Anthony should have been whacked long ago, he really should. I'm not sure how you deal with that.