The Five Stages of Grief
36Check out our partners at Norse Foundry! Get 10% off dice and accessories using coupon "savingthrowshow"! https://www.norsefoundry.com/ Amy lost a character during the Never Tell Me the Odds Star Wars game and immediately went through the Kübler-Ross Model's 5 stages of grief and loss.
Gaurav: My favorite RPG moment of 2016 will probably make me sound like complete asshole, but… it was the first time during a game I was playing that someone started crying.
Let me set the stage: we’re playing Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars RPG, and are delving deep into a hellish prison planet known as The Pit. We were all recruited by Merce Leck(played by the wonderful Amy Vorpahl) to rescue his secret wife Tamaya, as well as a long lost Jedi who was kept in the deepest part of the prison.
We finally find Tamaya, and she’s being held hostage by the mad warden of the prison. Merce and our team manage to defeat the Warden and save Tamaya, as well as the missing Jedi named Iron Gan. Everything seems hunky dory until Iron Gan begins monologuing... it seems all that time in the prison has turned him a little bit crazy. Not only that, but he was apparently on a planet that Merce had "purged" with the Empire. Darkness took him over, and first he killed the warden by decapitating him with his lightsaber. And then he turned his attention to Merce... and cut him in half in front of all of us.
This took us ALL by surprise, most of all Amy, who was half in tears and half laughing because she didn’t quite know how to react. I don’t think David quite expected that reaction either, but that’s always how it goes, right? The unexpected moments in RPGs are the ones you never forget, and that one will be in my mind for a long time.