Tabletop Games/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

* This troper plays [[Anti-Hero|an amoral coldhearted bastard]] of [[The Spymaster|a spymaster]] in an [[Exalted]] game. She creeps her circle out for how sociopathic she can get, ranging from [[Eye Scream|willing to shove needles into someone's eyes]] to [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] to get answers. However, even as monstrous as she gets, there are moments when she has been showing a softer side, mostly around her [[Morality Pet|girlfriend]]. The best example comes from her learning her girlfriend was about to be kidnapped, and gets there in time to stop it. She sneaked in, coldcocked the kidnapper, and then untied her unconscious girlfriend, tucked her back into bed, and pecked her cheek before taking the kidnapper in for questioning.

** Same character, while torturing the kidnapper. This dialogue happens:

'''Spy:''' For what? Hurting your little toy? You're the one who'll get hurt... eventually. It never was personal, Mali, you just want it to be, to know someone hates you enough to hurt those you choose to love but you don't love her. You just want to think you love someone.<br />

'''Character:''' Perhaps you are right, but is there truly any difference to it, made or not? Of course I'll get hurt, that's what caring is all about! I have no regrets, even if she breaks my heart. I'm happy to have known her either way. }}

** ... and more. The paladin's ghost that lingers to finish the training of his apprentice, who turns and just smiles at him; at that, the spirit passes on. The other paladin soul, captured in an über-evil blade, that ends up redeeming it. The messenger who seeks the god of travel to give his successor abilities to match his own, so that he not be mocked for not living up to an impossible legacy. And so on and so forth.

* ''[[Promethean: The Created]]''. Even by [[New World of Darkness|World of Darkness]] standards, [[Crapsack World|it's depressing]]; you play as [[Frankenstein's Monster|revived corpses]], who [[Walking the Earth|travel the world]] desperately trying to [[Become a Real Boy|become human]], while [[Blessed with Suck|their powers]] [[Walking Wasteland|turn]] [[Hate Plague|the world]] [[The Woobie|against them]]. But the tone is ultimately ''optimistic''; players are encouraged to [[Earn Your Happy Ending|fight for a happy ending]]. A quote from the Refinement of Iron, who study [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|combat and strength]], on the Refinement of Gold, who try to emulate the humans that hate and fear them:

** And if you ever wonder if a Promethean's pilgrimage is really worth it, there's this little story at the end of a chapter about a driver who casually, and just because he wants to help, picks up a battered and confused man to lead him to the hospital, not understanding why the man seems so baffled by this act of generosity. It's pretty clear he actually picked up a Promethean who finally managed to reach the New Dawn and to become a real human. The story ends with the driver looking in his rear mirror only for seeing the man smiling and opening his arms for welcoming the rays of the sun.

** ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'', too. Sure, it's dark and depressing, but the message of this game is simple: the reason humanity hasn't fallen to the countless horrors of the universe over the centuries, the reason ordinary people sleep soundly in their beds, the reason the protagonists of the other game lines (with a couple of exceptions, like Promethean and Geist) will NEVER win is because ordinary men and women step into the darkness and take up the Vigil. Many go insane. Most die. But for every candle that goes out, another ignites and the Vigil remains.

* This troper was once part of a [[Dungeons and Dragons]] group (The campaign has since ended.) The PCs were as thus: A Chaotic Neutral Half Elf Duskblade(This Troper), a Chaotic Evil Half-Orc king of hell barbarian thing (Don't ask, would take too long), and a lich. Our DM decided to mix two of his campaigns, so characters from the other campaign were there as well. The setting: End of the world is nigh, this troper and his group are going to enlist the power of some gods to help us out. We've gotten to the point where the leader of Hell itself said "Oh no, not you guys!" Anyway, we're decending into the bowels of this mountain where we can find a shrine we can use to summon an ancient warrior to help stop the big bad. On the way down, we all of sudden realize we're all silenced in every form. We can't communicate telepathically, we can't talk, we can't even hear ourselves breathe. From nowhere, the Orc, who has had a reputation of murdering entire towns without blinking, picks up the half elf and puts him on his shoulders. Why? The Half Orc's player looked at troper and said "In all that we've been through, you've been my only friend. You stayed when no one in there right mind would. Why is that? I don't care, I'm not letting you go." It was at this point, that this troper realized just how strong the relationships grew between these two characters, and just how far they'd go for eachother.

* One of the latest errata for [[Exalted]] manages to give one to the ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Abyssals]]'', believe it or not:

* ''[[FATAL]]'' has the Flute of Felicity, aka "What The Hell Is A Flute That Makes People Happy Doing In A Piece Of Shit World Like FATAL"? (On the forum thread, at least two tropers attempted to "rescue" the Flute of Felicity from the tainted mires of its source material.)

* This troper was running a game of [[Maid RPG]] in which the PCs were heading into town to meet an emissary from [[Girl Genius|Castle Wulfenbach]] to the minor noble they all worked for. This being the [[Girl Genius]] universe we're talking about, they encountered a fifteen-foot-tall rogue clank that proceeded to chase them through the woods between the mansion and the airship port. The group, being [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|what they are]], started speeding through the forest, throwing everything they could at it: bullets, dictionaries, random pieces of the car they were all riding in. When they had reached the end of the forest, they managed to disable its legs enough to be able to escape. Its last act before it was out of sight was to shout "HUUUUUUUUG!" The players immediately went "awww..." The party turned the car around, drove back, and proceeded to repair the clank's legs and let it hug them all in apology. This clank (named the Hug-Bot by the players) then followed them around for the rest of the campaign, giving random people and objects (including the mansion the group worked in) hugs.

* In [[GURPS]] [[Traveller]] ''Sword Worlds'', there is a CMOH in the side notes. A Sword World soldier is slogging home after the Fifth Frontier War. When he arrives he sees his home is in ruins, but there is his wife gallantly putting the pieces of their home together. They great each other and the next day get back to work rebuilding their lives and proving that their spirits are unbreakable. Later the soldier meets his brother who wishes to go on an expedition to the back of beyond to escape the encroachments of the Imperium. The soldier then says that he wishes his brother good luck but for himself, his home is right where it is and [[Theres No Place Like Home]].

* This Troper played a truly fantastic game of [[Scion]] that once featured a God-Scion of [[Japanese Mythology|Amaterasu]] attempting to rally the people of Japan to help her mother who was currently suffering a [[Heroic BSOD]] courtesy of [[Complete Monster|Mikaboshi]] as a means to drive her past the [[Despair Event Horizon]] by blocking out the sun and planting gloomy thoughts in the people of Japan. Additionally, he constantly [[Mind Rape|mind-raped]] her with images of her children suffering caused by her decisions. Through creative use of The Way and The Wyrd (courtesy of her bandmates) her player delivered a [[Rousing Speech]] to everyone of Japanese ancestry in the world. She even cued up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRx9gnY0Mp0 this] to help her stunt.

 

 

 

'''Our Group''': [[Manly Tears|Sniff...]] <br />

'''Scion of Amaterasu''':...so? What happened? <br />