From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Aaron Binns) |
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Subject: | Munchkins - how to deal with thm as the GM, and still be fair. |
Date: | Thu Oct 4 04:15:01 2001 |
Im about to run my very first Shadowrun game on the tabletop.
I have 5-6 novices to the SR universe and one nominal expert.
I am not a novice GM, but I am not experienced with tabletop GM'ing.
My problem is, that one of the novice players is really into the idea of
min/maxing his character. This guy is likley to get the others to all
min/max as well.
This is what I am talking about. No combat ability at all, all skills and
stats put towards social interaction. He wants to be a meta-hating human
corp sellout face with no combat skills in the shadows. For those who see a
strange similarity to another game.. yes, he's played CP2020 before. He is
also a veteran DnD player. Pretty much all the other players are playing
metahumans.
Furthermore there is the suggestion that everyone simply ignore everything
except their speciality. This is a recipe to getting them all killed very
quick.. especially as the first player appears to not grasp that humanis and
meta's dont mix.
Go figure.
now how do i deal with this guy, and the others if they min max to this
degree while still being fair? is it going to be such a terrible problem?
I expect a combat monster or two possibly... and a lot of magic using
characters.
Im kind of at a loss as to how to run SR with guys who want to be ultimate
superpower as starting characters.
Any suggestions? I am going to run the second adventure from 'First Run' as
the beginning game.
Aaron (GreyWolf)