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DFRPG / Re: Frustrated Question on Morality and denied characater concepts in Dresden RP
« on: May 30, 2009, 01:30:38 AM »I imagine that those people would be in the minority. Most of the folks I've played with haven't liked being absolutely forced to do something without an option.
I suppose I phrased my idea poorly.
What I mean is, you're only FORCED to do the action if all your OTHER choices are worse ones (or if your choices leading up to your quandry are so bad that there's no other option). It's like dying in an RPG: You don't LIKE dying, but sometimes the things you do make it unavoidable to die. As I showed in my example with not feeding on clergy, you don't necessarily HAVE to act according to your Compel, but it DOES provide a moral quandry that wouldn't be there if you could just ignore your Compel. The fun isn't in being backed into a corner from which your only egress is the Compel; it's about making you choose between the monster that's in your nature and whatever the alternative is.
Harry faced similar distasteful choices when dealing with Lash. His cooperation with her on various occasions was distasteful, but he decided that the cost of NOT cooperating would be too high. That's what I'm talking about. Not "here is your adventure. Minute 1: you must do this. Now you may resume playing your character" sort of things. Just "If I do this, will I be in a hole so deep that my only choice will be to ____?"