What happens to the characters in an RPG after they save the world?
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That's a scary thought. That sounds like a game that revolves around you maintaining a level of Hero popularity by causing horrible things to happen just so you can swoop in and save the day.GiantRaven said:
For example, upon exploration of the wilderness of your safe little hamlet, you may find a number of crypts and dungeons that have been sealed because they are evil breeding pits. So, in order to maintain your street cred as the stalwart hero of the land, you pop open an evil crypt somewhere and let the undead attack the town. A few burned buildings and killed farmers later, you charge in and save the day, keeping your hero cred high!
It becomes a balancing act of releasing progressively more powerful evils to vanquish, making sure you can vanquish them, ensuring the relative safety of the township and making absolutely sure that you are never caught popping open an evil sanctum of some kind.
Of course, this sounds like the kind of game where the hero is ultimately killed for being a sociopath dick who thrives upon fame. Still, the ride would be pretty fun and challenging!
Sticking to the original question, drinking beers on the yellow sands of a blue watered beach in Papua New Guinue (probably spelt wrong) for all I care, they've served their purpose and should get some R&R.
The logical progression is "Now you take over as ruler of the world" since you've already usually garnered massive popular support and established yourself as a capable war hero.
In most games, though, you usually just let everything fall into anarchy and go smoke pot in the mountains for five years until the next big bad rolls up.
In most games, though, you usually just let everything fall into anarchy and go smoke pot in the mountains for five years until the next big bad rolls up.
