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From: Reply with a sugestion for a new name <goehrigd@****.CANISIUS.EDU>
Subject: fun for non cromies
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 15:43:20 -0500
On Tue, 13 Dec 1994, Andrew wrote:

> Everyone keeps saying how their sammies kill everything and the other
> players are bored. There is more to the game than combat. Sammies do
> combat. That is usually all they can do. The other characters are
> better at other things.

In my games there are usually two characters that handel the combat..
A wiz to handel the scouting....and a technerd and a charmer
the combat guy's only come into play at certain points..namely combat
and many times are played a second character...They aren't as useful
as some guys out there


The character I play can hold his own in combat,
> but does a lot of social stuff, he is more of a watcher fo things and
> thinker, but if it comes to combat he can do it, the sammies are faster,
> but that is not his primary thing (he is a phys adept, he is an agent for
> other powers, so is kinda always doing INTEL). If players are having
> problems with being bored with combat, add some other types of scenes to
> keep everyone happy.
>
Isn't this the same thing as the one dimentional FASA plot complaint?
The game should have a story line without it what do you have...
a DOOM or DOOM2 tactical exercise.......Not in the spirit of the game.
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