Quote Originally Posted by Kesey View Post
But to play devil's advocate, let's think of this way: If we don't loose a member of the main cast so they can all face the grittiest and darkest expansion together against a godlike foe, then they all can experience it differently and create many avenues of storytelling instead of pigeon-holing some of the cast and limit their ability to tell the story.

I would argue that keeping them alive will present the best option for the storytelling to not be boring.
But then where’s the threat? Where’s the suspense of what’s happening to them if we know they’re going to be okay. A story shouldn’t be one-sided, especially because in the case of ShB, in order to keep a certain character alive, they had to rely on half-assed plot armor which completely contradicted the story elements. If it’s something that makes them contradict their own points they wrote in the story, then that should be dealt with. Look at HW. The deaths were impactful to many but it wasn’t forced or anything like that. There were actually consequences for the protags that shaped them. ShB has none of that and it’s no wonder ShB also has less overall character development barring a couple of the scions (Thancred and Alphinaud most notably).