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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: Surely this wish won't go awry!
 
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DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.
I'm having a little trouble understanding one of the issues. It seems to me that they are about becoming a stronger person by learning a lesson, some of which culminate in painful consequences immediately before the issue resolves. But (being a) Hero seems to resolve immediately before you get murdered instead? What am I misunderstanding here?

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DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

ActingPower posted:

You're talking about Hero? Here's what I have (it's from the short version):

The "painful consequence," in this case, is being forced to stand up to the thing that terrifies you. The way I see Issues are as something that builds and builds until it demands resolution. Good or bad, painful or easy... those things are up to you and your HG.

I think I grok it now. I misunderstood it as a Complex where the doom was the part where everything implodes on you. Which is a very negative way to interpret heroism, don't you think?

The issue is much more like Calling, except instead of "I accept my new responsibility" the resolution point is "I accept that I have fear." The resulting conflict between the character and their doom isn't important to the issue, although, of course, it's still important to the story.

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