From:	Phil Smith phil_urbanhell@*******.com
Subject:	Power Gaming and Benchmarking (Long)
Date:	Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:45:01 GMT

>From: "Hahns Shin" <Hahns_Shin@*******.com>
><Laughs> The players in my group(s) tend to work in the same way. One
>of the running gags is that one player keeps playing the same
>character... oh, sure, one of them MAY be an adept and another MAY
>have cyberware, but basically the same walking killing machine on legs that
>walks and err... (he is notorious for repetitive redundancies, too). It
>went
>so far that his most recent character (and most memorable) was an adept
>named Generic. :-) Another player tends to model characters after a pop
>or rock music star (not so much the rocker aspect as the general
>personality and character). Another is a person that is AWESOME at
>playing deckers, but fails in all other archetypes. You get all kinds.

*Makes sure Hahns' Manhunter is holstered*

I was discussing this with my group yesterday and we recon that people tend
to play characters who do a lot of what they like; for example, folks who
play deckers go on computers a lot, I play a writer in one campaign - which
is what I want to do when I leave school. If someone is a loner in real
life they will play one, and so on. Just think about the people in your
group and you will find it bizarrely true.

Phil

These are my principles; if you don't like them I have some others.
-Groucho Marx

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