Don't you badmouth Linzi, you! Linzi is adorable, it's a crime that she wasn't a romance option, and in our home game we're most certainly not going to let some arbitrary plot device fridge her. Hmph.
(All said in good humour, I promise ^.^)
That happening actually genuinely pissed me off.
As in, my LG paladin of Erastil MC wanted to avenge her and stuff, although I started to really struggle to care enough by the point the game got to the HATEOT, and I, as a player, was really mad at the game for taking the only reliable solution to ridiculous 40+ skill checks and a strong support spellcaster from me. Bye, Good Hope, Mass Heroism, Inspire Competence, and many other nice effects. No, I didn't find Linzi's death to be a tragedy from a narrative perspective outside of in-character interpretation (which, again, I was really getting tired of doing at that point). In fact, them having the gall to try to evoke any emotions other than "what the hell have you done to my party composition in your game about min-maxing the party composition?" was really a head-scratcher.
