Who needs therapy if you've got "impactful" RPGs, right?<\/p>\n
Impactful is such a weird word. I've had lots of memorable<\/i> sessions. Impactful seems like "something that changed you outside the game" and I'm not convinced that's why I play RPGs, so…<\/p>\n
Man, I dunno.<\/p>\n
Okay, here's one, maybe.<\/p>\n
Dogs in the Vineyard<\/i>. Our second<\/b> serious fight. We'd already had one smaller altercation earlier in the game, so the players had seen how the conflicts worked, and more to the point they saw how FALLOUT<\/i> worked.<\/p>\n
Second conflict, things started getting heated, and someone pulled out a gun.<\/p>\n
And the players – some experienced, pretty seen-it-all gamers – kind of pulled back from the table and were like "Whoa. Shit. Hang on a sec."<\/p>\n
That game made guns fucking scary<\/i>. They made them as goddamn dangerous as they are<\/i>, you know?<\/p>\n
(Best of all, the way fallout worked, you got fights where you didn't really<\/i> know how fucked you were until the shooting stopped.)<\/p>\n
Dogs<\/i> remains the only game in which the players (and, by extension, the characters) reacted to someone pulling out a gun the way real people would, and I (obviously) remember that, to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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