Guest Post: There's No Crying in Elfgames

I consider myself a deeply sensitive and loving person. I mean this in an entirely negative way. Sure in many parts of my life those traits are lovely and positive but when it comes to RPGs, it’s a handicap. I am deeply unsure if the benefits it brings to me as a deeply invested player, are worth the risks it places to the game, and to the comfort of other players and my GM Mister Jenx. Recently our party of mid level adventurers was clearing out the last of the first floor of Stonehell. We were sweeping rooms easily, and feeling perfectly safe. As long as we didn’t make any profoundly stupid choices there was no way we were at any risk from anything at this level. And then via a series of near catastrophically bad dice rolls, a random encounter with 6 ghouls, had us exceedingly close to a TPK. It was only a failed moral role from two of the ghouls, causing them to run away that saved us. I had to leave the table after this fight and go take a walk, because I was shaking and nearly in…