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From:	GKoth2258@***.com
Subject:	In-character
Date:	Fri, 5 Jan 1996 20:02:40 -0500

Message no. 1 Our group was always more of a shoot-em-up roll-playing type of group, but we
did do something to ensure a minimum level of role-playing, regardless of the
people involved.

Anything said, unless otherwise noted, was assumed to be in character.
Certain individuals got their PCs scragged a few times when the player
insulted the Johnson (or other NPC) without saying that it was
"out-of-character." We all wised up real fast, even those sam types...

Erik

From:	Mike Loseke <mike@***.sc.colostate.edu>
Subject:	Re: In-character
Date:	Sat, 06 Jan 1996 10:55:31 -0700

Message no. 2 GKoth2258@***.com wrote:
>
> Our group was always more of a shoot-em-up roll-playing type of group, but we
> did do something to ensure a minimum level of role-playing, regardless of the
> people involved.
>
> Anything said, unless otherwise noted, was assumed to be in character.
> Certain individuals got their PCs scragged a few times when the player
> insulted the Johnson (or other NPC) without saying that it was
> "out-of-character." We all wised up real fast, even those sam types...

This is what we call "Paranoia Rules": whatever anyone says or does, their
character says and does. We used to play Paranoia like that (and I don't
recall whether or not it was a hard and fast printed rule. We tend to use
it when everyone and everything gets out of hand. It has a real nice way
of bringing things back to sanity (as close as we'll ever get anyway...).

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