From:	paul collins paulcollins@*******.com
Subject:	Help GM in despair
Date:	Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:31:22 +1000

----- Original Message -----
From: Sven De Herdt <Sven.DeHerdt@******.com>
To: <shadowrn@*********.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: Help GM in despair


> Marc Renouf wrote
>
> <snip>
>
> > Instead, make sure that your players (and more importantly their
> > characters) know *exactly* why they're getting hammered. One of my
> > favorite ways to do this is by getting them apprehended and having to
> > stand trial. Then roll through the whole litany of exhibits
> > and evidence
> > that the prosecution throws at them. Everything from
> > physical evidence to
> > trid footage. Show them *exactly* how they messed up. Or
> > alternately, if
> > they manage to escape, have their faces plastered all over the news.
>
> <snip>
>
> But if they go through the trial they will be most likely sentenced to a
> couple of years of imprisonment!?
> I used this once and since there was no response of the players afterwards
> on an escape attempt or something alike, they all ended up creating new
> characters (which is kind a like the same result as just killing them).
>
> How do you get the PCs out in time so the players can continue with the
same
> character? And in a way that they don't take their escape/getting out for
> granted and use it over and over again (appealing to your non-lethal GM
> style)?
>
> -Sven :)
> --


Did you ever see the movie: "La Femme Nikita" or even the US remake,
"Assasan", where Nikita is sentenced to death for being involved in killing
a few cops during a drug haze. Gets sentenced to death. They even go as
far as injecting her with something in the execution room. Then she wakes
up in the compound of some secret assasan unit or somesuch.


"Welcome to the compound Mr. Shadowrunner. Officially, you're dead. Do
what your told or else. ..."

Annachie




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