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#Play4Wyatt.

Posted by Nagatobimaru
Visceri22
member, 451 posts
This is a rather amusing
and catchy profile quote!
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 00:25
  • msg #14

#Play4Wyatt

In reply to pdboddy (msg # 13):

Precisely. At the very least, you have a new NPC. At most, you have a new NPC and you've done something to commemorate a fallen member of our community. Like Nintaku said, the pros of being right, outweigh the cons of being wrong. Well stated.
GammaBear
member, 803 posts
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 00:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #15

#Play4Wyatt

This message was deleted by the user at 00:45, Wed 08 Nov 2017.
pdboddy
member, 567 posts
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 00:40
  • msg #16

#Play4Wyatt

In reply to GammaBear (msg # 15):

You may certainly express your opinion.  But in your very first reply, it appeared like you were strawberrying on the thread.  How were we supposed to take that?  We simply replied with our opinion about your opinion.

And now the thread's off track.

Myself, Wyatt shall be a good-guy mage NPC in my tabletop Shadowrun game.
GammaBear
member, 804 posts
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 00:43
  • [deleted]
  • msg #17

#Play4Wyatt

This message was deleted by the user at 00:45, Wed 08 Nov 2017.
dybbuk67
member, 56 posts
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 00:44
  • msg #18

#Play4Wyatt

I think Wyatt will have to be a Knight of Avalon in the 7th Sea 2e game I'm running soon.
aguy777
member, 229 posts
Join Date:
Fri, 29 Nov, 2013
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 01:08
  • msg #19

#Play4Wyatt

I don't know what I'll do with my version of Wyatt quite yet, but he will be a Paladin of Pelor for me.
pdboddy
member, 568 posts
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 01:49
  • msg #20

#Play4Wyatt

The temptation to have a Wyatt Earp is high. :)
Triad
member, 103 posts
Kiengir Adventures
Suffers fools rarely.
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 08:37
  • msg #21

Re: #Play4Wyatt

pdboddy:
The temptation to have a Wyatt Earp is high. :)


If you have the setting, go for it.

I am going to include Wigheard Parisser, Half-Elf and disgraced Paladin seeking redemption in my game, as a pivotal NPC.

(Wigheard is the Anglo-Saxon origin of Wyatt; and Parisser is derived from Ferris)
Starchaser
member, 462 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 08:45
  • msg #22

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Since both my games are set in modern times with nearby universities I now have an NPC in both - Wyatt Ferris, a 17 year old student who hopes to have a career in Baseball!
Triad
member, 104 posts
Kiengir Adventures
Suffers fools rarely.
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 12:54
  • msg #23

Re: #Play4Wyatt

May I propose that someone from our subset of gamer community (rpol) with social media access reaches out to his mother and asks for permission to use some of the images of him for our portraits.

I would do so myself, but I don't use twitter or facebook.
Starchaser
member, 463 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Wed 8 Nov 2017
at 13:03
  • msg #24

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Just tweeted to #Play4Wyatt but may not get a response. Twitter can create a lot of noise and bear in mind Wyatt's family will be grieving right now and may not be in a position to respond to tweets.
praguepride
member, 1214 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 16:18
  • msg #25

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Manticore:
The problem I see is the 'took his own life' part. The death report I found on him was 'hit by a train.'


swordchucks:
I know nothing about the case, but jumping in front of a train or large truck is a method of suicide.


quote:
A witness called 911 to report seeing someone jump in front of the train. The caller said the engineer sounded the horn but could not stop in time.


quote:
"When he was 14, he was playing in the 18-year-old age group," she said. "He suffered a concussion three years ago and had a really hard time coming back from it. He had cognitive behavioral therapy he had to go through as a result of the concussion and started to have anxiety and panic attacks."


Pure speculation but the thought is that the brain injury caused some form of depression or anxiety that prompted him to throw himself in front of a train :(

I'll be on the look out to drop a Wyatt or two here and there...

Source:
https://www.dallasnews.com/new...d-onto-tracks-denton
Locke1221
member, 28 posts
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 16:53
  • msg #26

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Wyatt Ferris is now also a MechWarrior Cadet in my game.
Warrax
member, 186 posts
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 16:57
  • msg #27

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Ooof, so young.  Suicide is always tragic, but it is especially so in the young.

Wyatt Ferris is now an NPC in my M20 game.
Prowler.Jeff
member, 108 posts
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 18:43
  • msg #28

Re: #Play4Wyatt

I play alongside both Locke and Warrax, although I'm not usually a GM.  My heart to the family - I've been in their shoes with 3 very close friends.
Martel
member, 6 posts
D&D, Free-form, Original,
and Fandom-based RP
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 19:46
  • msg #29

Re: #Play4Wyatt

I'm running a D&D game in which a lone shrine to a god of springtime and morning sits outside a town that has otherwise turned its back on the gods. I already had in mind that someone had been tending the shrine for a while, and that this lone reminder of the god's benevolence was tolerated, out of a sense of longing for better times.

Wyatt Ferris will be a ranger, and the secret shrine-keeper.
This message was last edited by the user at 19:47, Fri 10 Nov 2017.
praguepride
member, 1216 posts
"Hugs for the Hugs God!"
- Warhammer Fluffy-K
Fri 10 Nov 2017
at 22:31
  • msg #30

Re: #Play4Wyatt

If you have twitter that's probably the best way to report it, with the hashtag.

Must say quite the clever and appropriate way of remembrance. Given how much time I spend gaming it really hits home as a nice way to live on in the collective fabric of fantasy.
Starchaser
member, 473 posts
GMT+0
Posts Monday-Friday
Wed 15 Nov 2017
at 10:27
  • msg #31

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Got a twitter reply. We have permission to use this image:-

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img...jpg&name=600x314

From this link:- http://www.rpgnow.com/product/...tt-Ferris-Play4Wyatt

I'll edit it down and get a portrait submission in sometime today.
Nerwen
member, 1880 posts
seek to understand before
you seek to be understood
Wed 15 Nov 2017
at 18:44
  • msg #32

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Not exactly RPG related, but I needed to name a minor character in my Nanowrimo, so now there's a Wyatt McClain who was a foot soldier in an army that was in my setting a couple hundred years ago.
horus
member, 317 posts
Wayfarer of the
Western Wastes
Thu 16 Nov 2017
at 12:48
  • msg #33

Re: #Play4Wyatt

When I get through working overtime, Wyatt Ferris will populate the Firefly 'Verse and the world of Tekumel (perhaps as the Pe Choi mage W'ai'att Feris'che {which will literally mean "keeper of dreams" in my campaign}).

Honor the fallen, give comfort to the grieving, and bring joy to those living and playing.  How can these things be in any wise wrong?
Brygun
member, 2016 posts
RPG since 1982
Author & Inspiration
Thu 16 Nov 2017
at 17:52
  • msg #34

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Nagatobimaru:
He suffered a concussion when he was 14yo, never healing fully from the damage.


Bear in mind that first there was an injury. Most mankind has advanced their understanding of brain injuries or imbalances. For instance depression is diagnosed as an extended period of sadness.

For those struggling to grasp how this works consider a skiing athlete who breaks their leg. You know for the bone injury the person needs outside help. Needs to rest. Needs support in the form of a cast and later a crutch. Eventually, if they do the right things and keep on their medication the leg can heal and they can run, skip and even ski again. The brain is also biological with many more components than a leg. Depression can come from injury or suppression of the hormones and chemistry that give the brain strength.

On going depression can lead to suicide. Rather than a selfish act it can be connected to thoughts of not wanting others to suffer or just wanting the pain to end. Imagine having a broken leg that never got treated and the world demanding you run on it everyday.

When viewed in this you can make a comparison to Wyatt's story to also read: A youth suffered a potentially fatal injury at 14 yet even though it never fully healed kept an active life going on 3 more years.
This message was last edited by the user at 18:36, Thu 16 Nov 2017.
Yaztromo
member, 113 posts
Sat 18 Nov 2017
at 01:12
  • msg #35

Re: #Play4Wyatt

I'm on this too and Wyatt will become a NPC herald and messenger on Blackmoor as well.
This message was last edited by the user at 00:50, Sun 10 Dec 2017.
pdboddy
member, 588 posts
Mon 4 Dec 2017
at 01:05
  • msg #36

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Wyatt Ferris is a troubleshooter in another Shadowrun game of mine IRL.  Helps people get into and out of Boston during the Lockdown.
Yaztromo
member, 131 posts
Sat 9 Dec 2017
at 16:56
  • msg #37

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Wyatt is the young and cheeky Innkeeper of the Gryphon´s Nest, at Gallows End.
C-h Freese
member, 264 posts
Survive - Love - Live
Fri 22 Dec 2017
at 22:23
  • msg #38

Re: #Play4Wyatt

Wyatt Is a "Ghost-walk" 3.0 D&D Eidolancer (3)/illusionist (3), Ensign of the TSN Battlemount Mo(u)rning Star. Skill: Profession; Storyteller
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