Tomi

*DM plotting in background*

Why isn't anyone talking about Norm? He is an excellent character, well written and well played, I dare say one of those with the most interesting development. At the beginning he is presented to us as a cowardly and unstimulated boy, he himself says and thinks these things, but after Lucy leaves the vault he begins to show us how intelligent and stubborn he actually is. Not only is he the only one to ask questions and investigate what happened, taking advantage of his being little "visible" to the other inhabitants of the vault, but he doesn't let himself be intimidated and convinced by Betty. Norm lacks enthusiasm because vault life is a Truman Show and he knows it.

you guys need to learn the concept of play to lose

"play to lose" is a style of engaging in roleplay (ttrpg, larp etc) where you don't 100% become your character nor 100% use your character like a pawn in a game of chess that you need to win, but rather devote a few of those brain RAM percents to figuring out what kind of story you actually want to tell with your roleplay. if the story would be more interesting if your character dies at the end, or does not fully meet their goals, you do exactly that, you cause those situations instead of what the character would optimally do if they had the time and space you have on a meta level to make the decision. when you play to lose, you don't become personally offended when another character betrays you, you instead become excited about the plot twist and work together to escalate the stakes and to make the story more interesting instead of fighting to "win" the game, because a lot of role-playing games do not actually have "win conditions" and their sole purpose is to tell a compelling story. your character's best interest and their goals are Not the actual goal, the actual goal is the story itself

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