| From: | Bull <bull_22@*******.COM> |
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| Subject: | A slight bitch about house rules and optional rules (was Re: |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Jul 1997 01:15:04 -0400 |
>At 05:37 PM 7/3/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>On 3 Jul 97 at 17:15, Fisher, Victor wrote:
>>
>>> Why doesn't everyone just use the Increased Lethality Rules for
>>> drain, listed in the Shadowrun, 2nd edition rule book, IF it suits their
>>> campaign, instead of trying to enforce a system wide moritorium on what
>>> drain should be? I thought that's what they were there for.
Also, as a note here, I'm gonna bitch for a moment...
<sigh>
I'm real tired of every time someone brings up a gripe with the way a
particular rule works, the first thing everyone automatically suggests is
to "make up a rule" or "Follow optional rule 32X".
Maybe I'm just tired and grouchy from not having my normal e-mail account
back, but this doesn;t make sense to me. Wjhat the hell is the point of
having a rulebook if half of it gets thrown out?? makes life a royal bitch
when you want to play your character with another group, or even when you
strat a new character with a new group. You need to spend an hour just
learning which rules the new GM does and doesn;t use.
I'm just tired of running into this up here. W've got a couple GM's for
SR, and the players bounce back and forth between games fairly regularly.
Since me and Tinner (the other GM) run virtually the same game, it's no
problems... However, a few of ou players go to College a few hours drive
away from here, and we run into problems between games, because the GM up
tehre runs a vastly differnt game, both in power levels, style, and some of
the new optional rules.
And now that I'm gonna be hitting some Cons, and meet a few other players,
the one thing coming to my mind is "How differnt is my game compared to
others?" I mean, I know that our game world is a little warped. Just look
at the Mantids in Tinner's world compared to pretty much everyone else's
world. It's frustrating to join a game, and then do something that's
normal for your game, but is totally different from how they play their
game. I've even had someone want to play a fragging Kender from Dragonlace
in SR. It was a standard race in his old game, and he hadn't even realized
that they WEREN'T a standard character race (or that they didn;t even exist
in SR).
I have no problems with addidng stuff to the game, or modifying rules to
suit a particular game (i.e., a lower powered game you would want less
money/power in the characters). After all, just look at the new metatypes
and stuff that I've created. But when you start fragging up a lot of
rules, just because you can;t come to grps with the way they are intended
to run, and no one wants to bother explaining WHY they work the way they
do, then it gets annoying...
<sigh>
Hope this made sense, and I hope noone takes offence... it wasn;t a flame
intended towards anyone, and I don;t want to strat a long drawn out flame
war. We've had enough of them lately... I just kinda wanbted to get a
little gripe out...:]
Bull
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