| From: | "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Long Range Game Design [Here it comes, TopCat!] |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:10:15 -0400 |
<snip, snip, snip some more, or what the hell, snip most of this
drivel!>
The only reason you find what I have to hilarious is because you
have NO idea what I'm trying to say!!! Setting the parameters means you
telling the players what the powe level of the game is, what [if any]
character types aren't really compatible with the whole storyline,
UNLESS the Player and Gm TOGETHER are able to barnstorm an idea that
that will allow the character to work in the game.
I like it when my characters come from 'all points of the globe'. I
LIKE diversity, as opposed to you ONE GM, ONE VISION type of gaming.
AND, I'll have you know, that maybe in YOUR game characters from
different backgrounds despise and hate each other, displaying an
EXTREMELY Xenophobic attitude, the same does NOT hold for mine, and that
4 times out of 5, the group finds for themselves, with a little help
from me, reasons to work together. I can take you taking pot shots at
me, BUT DON'T YOU DARE DO SLAMS AGAINST MY PLAYERS! That is the most
unmidigated, galling statement I ve EVER heard, and I've heard quite a
few!
You don't need to instantly obliterate the PCs [well, maybe YOU
do]. You don't need to go about prosecuting powergamers [but I guess
like the Nazis, you need a scapegoat for your propoganda to feed on].
NO ONE in my game is a POWERGAMER [yes, I DID have one, but unlike
you, who probably would have given him a blindfold and shot him at dawn,
we came to an agreement that he should find something elsewhere].
Just because you LIMITED, INFLEXIBLE mentality isn't able to
comprehend all the possible plot threads that can link diverse
characters together, and can only see a TopCat Uber Alles type world
where all the player characters are the same, DON'T have the nerve to
think we all have to or desire to be like that.
I may not run a PERFECT game like YOU do, but I try my best, and I
think my players enjoy it a little as well. And I'd rather burn my
books, than submit to a fasCist Gm like yourself!
WHEW! I feel better now. Despised letting that run itno a spout of
namecalling, but you want a pissing match, I guarentee I've got a biger
[Block delete 0.02 Mp Memory].
Kohl, who HATES to be antagonized before he's had his morning cup of
tea!
