Narrative Control

This episode Erik Woodbury and I are talking about character death and how that affects the players in the game and the story ramifications.    This was inspired by an article from Judd Karlman on the Burning Wheel forums.Hosts: Sean Nittner and Erik WoodburyLength: 27:15Show Notes[00:27] Intro to the Show.   My celebration of holiday cheer.  Our thoughts on how to make Character death more satisfying in game.[01:44] What’s up Justin?  I mean an intro to Erik Woodbury.[02:38] Judd’s post.  A discussion took place on both his LiveJournal here: http://judd-sonofbert.livejournal.com/462520.html and the Burning Wheel forum thread here:  http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?p=76980#post76980[03:00] An excerpt from Judd’s post.[03:55] Putting Erik on the spot.  Characters of his that have died.[04:44] What character death means to Sean? The end of player agency in the story.[05:11] Agency is the ultimate currency in any RPG.  Doing stuff is what makes it fun.[05:35] Erik recalls his character’s “death”[