From:	JOHN SPAIN <93135653@****.DCU.IE>
Subject:	Re: Rules and power
Date:	Sat, 21 Oct 1995 18:28:43 +0000

>Disbeliever - Everything has to be judged on its own merit. The concept of a
>character who is highly resistant to magic is interesting, it could make for a
>good character if done well. Unfortunately (and please don't take to harshly),
>it was not done that well. The problem was that a character appeared whose only
>object was to rile up the list and annoy people - or atleast - thats all he ever
>did. He was a not a constructive character - he never added anything to the
>list as a whole, besides anger. Destructive personalities are fine in villians
>- for they are villians and are constructive by way of making the heros foil
>their plots. A destructive character makes others want to change them or prove
>to them their incorrectness, but in the end - it is the player who decides if
>this is ok, and usually it is not ok to do these things to a character - but
>fine with a villian.

How am I taking this? Well, to be honest, I am not too amused at being made
the example of a 'how not to proceed' lesson by one of the list's veterans.
Lets just say that we have radically different views of how characters should
be run, and let's leave it at that.

I will continue to use Disbeliever, and if I can include him in any of my,
or other people's plots then hopefully I will manage to make the character
evolve in some of the directions I have envisaged.

If you all have a problem with this, then tell me.

-J.S.