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Message no. 1
From: Richard M Conroy <Richard_M_Conroy@***.ir.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Shadowrong
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 96 10:22:00 PDT
:OK, I just had to post this.
:We have a regular gaming group that plays every Sunday night. Over the
:last several weeks, it has been getting larger, and larger, until we
:peaked at 13 players last week.

Trouble. That's way too many for one GM. That starts all kinds of
trouble.

[big snip]
:Anybody else got similar stories?

Sounds like a game of paranoia. This is SR so it's kind of sad really,
because there's no Roleplaying involved in cutting a team down. Makes
for OK one-shot games (like Doom), but campaign play ????

A similar episode ended a campaign I was in. All the hardheads decided
to go for each other, my character & another character decided to duck
and wait it out. When the smoke cleared and we stood up, we were the
only two characters left alive... and bloody glad that we decided not to
stay in *that* building...

It was a funny episode, but the campaign just ended then, so what's the
point ?

Richard.
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Message no. 2
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Shadowrong
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:42:25 -0500 (EST)
>Trouble. That's way too many for one GM. That starts all kinds of
>trouble.

Not really. I have run with teams of 20+ before, and it isn;t too terrible,
as long as you carefully divide the group into squads IMHO.

>Sounds like a game of paranoia. This is SR so it's kind of sad really,
>because there's no Roleplaying involved in cutting a team down. Makes
>for OK one-shot games (like Doom), but campaign play ????

That's just it, it wasn't a campaign. This episode was definately outside my
main campaign.

>It was a funny episode, but the campaign just ended then, so what's the
>point ?

That was the point. I managed to lose several problem players, and also had
a fun time doing it. Furthermore currently the remaining team members have
discovered just how miserable it can be to not trust each other. They are
now a better functioning unit than ever :-)



The Way of the Hero

In each truly heroic struggle there is a time of commitment.
A time when human energies fail, yet more is required . . . and more is given.
Few are equal to that task.
Often that effort ends in failure, for victory is not always for the brave.
But where a man might falter, these ones do not, not while life and spirit
endure.
Not until the last measure is given.
To transcend the man, become the hero.

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