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In a short word, yes. We recently suffered the real life passing of one of our long-term players. It was heartening to see the overwhelming grief and sense of loss that our players felt. (And staff, for that matter).
I have learned that the game, mobs, rooms, etc may be lines of text, but the people behind the PCs are real. They have real feelings that can be hurt, real life joys to be shared, etc. And if you treat them like that, they tend to become your friends, even though you couldn't pick their face out in a crowd of two.
Kind of a neat dynamic in this internet world we live in.
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