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Message no. 1
From: Wage Mage wagemage@**.rr.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:14:04 -0500
Ok let's have'em. I know they're out there. I want to hear about vampires
stalking and tormenting players. Free Spirits driving characters insane
with control spells and illusions. Think Blair Witch 2 type stuff.
Message no. 2
From: Keith Duthie psycho@*********.co.nz
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 03:40:40 +1300 (NZDT)
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Wage Mage wrote:

> Ok let's have'em. I know they're out there. I want to hear about vampires
> stalking and tormenting players. Free Spirits driving characters insane
> with control spells and illusions. Think Blair Witch 2 type stuff.

Here's the nastiest evil trick you can play on them: give them realistic
consequences for their actions.

Walk around lit up like a christmas tree with spells and foci? There are
free spirits that'll pop those spells and foci just for kicks.
Walk around with an assault cannon in Redmond? Get shot by gangers from
behind for the ordinance.
Walk around carrying an expensive deck? Get mugged.
Drive around in an armoured-to-hell vehicle in Bellevue? The Star'll be
keeping a close eye on you even if they don't pick you up on GP.

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Message no. 3
From: caelric@****.com caelric@****.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:50:25 -0800
At 03:40 AM 11/7/00 +1300, you wrote:
>
>Here's the nastiest evil trick you can play on them: give them realistic
>consequences for their actions.
>
>Walk around lit up like a christmas tree with spells and foci? There are
>free spirits that'll pop those spells and foci just for kicks.
>Walk around with an assault cannon in Redmond? Get shot by gangers from
>behind for the ordinance.
>Walk around carrying an expensive deck? Get mugged.
>Drive around in an armoured-to-hell vehicle in Bellevue? The Star'll be
>keeping a close eye on you even if they don't pick you up on GP.
>

Those aren't nasty GM tricks, those are playing SR with a sense of some
realism. Most (not all) runners allready know not to do stupid things like
that, despite what you read in the CLUE files :)


Dave
Message no. 4
From: Graht graht@******.net
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:10:35 -0700
Wage Mage wrote:
> Ok let's have'em. I know they're out there. I want to hear about
> vampires stalking and tormenting players. Free Spirits driving characters
> insane with control spells and illusions. Think Blair Witch 2 type stuff.

The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)

"My assistant, Bob the dinasaur, will now demonstrate
how to give a cat a 'fur wedgie.'"
Message no. 5
From: Patrick Goodman pgoodman13@************.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:37:02 -0600
From: Graht
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:29 PM

> The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)

Piker.

The character's EX-WIFE is a vampire.

And she's horny.
Message no. 6
From: Steve Collins einan@*********.net
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 00 23:39:47 -0500
On 11/6/00 9:37 pm, Patrick Goodman said:

>From: Graht
>Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:29 PM
>
>> The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)
>
>Piker.
>
>The character's EX-WIFE is a vampire.
>
>And she's horny.
>

No those are bennefits, then he has a legit reason to kill them.


:-)
Message no. 7
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:37:16 -0800 (PST)
> Ok let's have'em. I know they're out there. I want
to hear about vampires stalking and tormenting
players. Free Spirits driving characters insane with
control spells and illusions. Think Blair Witch 2 type
stuff.

There's an idea.

Make the runners go to a meet with a Johnson in a
movie theatre, where they're playing Blair Witch
9...or Rocky 20...or The Brady Bunch 15...or something
like that. :)

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

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Message no. 8
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 12:36:51 +0100
According to Patrick Goodman, on Tue, 07 Nov 2000 the word on the street was...

> > The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)
>
> Piker.
>
> The character's EX-WIFE is a vampire.
>
> And she's horny.

In that case, better make it a ghoul.

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Message no. 9
From: Patrick Goodman pgoodman13@************.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:10:39 -0600
From: Steve Collins
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 9:29 PM

> >> The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)
> >
> >Piker.
> >
> >The character's EX-WIFE is a vampire.
> >
> >And she's horny.
>
> No those are bennefits, then he has a legit reason to kill them.

Well, the PC in question didn't have a vampire for a mother-in-law. He had
a vampire for an ex-wife. And he was still in love with her; she only
divorced him because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants around his
secretary (which is also why he turned to the shadows; she had a vicious
divorce lawyer and he was trying to escape from alimony payments).

He didn't want to kill her.
Message no. 10
From: Patrick Goodman pgoodman13@************.com
Subject: Evil, nasty GM tricks.
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:21:07 -0600
From: Gurth
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 7:03 AM

> > > The character's mother-in-law is a vampire :)
> >
> > Piker.
> > The character's EX-WIFE is a vampire.
> > And she's horny.
>
> In that case, better make it a ghoul.

Well, as I understood it, the original intent of this thread was to make a
list of things actually done to PCs, not something that could be done to
them. I've actually given a PC a vampire ex-wife.

They don't have to drink blood to drain Essence; there just needs to be a
heightened emotional state. The blood is symbolic.

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