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Message no. 1
From: renouf@********.com (Marc Renouf)
Subject: Twin Brother Bent on Revenge (was: Fencing)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:35:23 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Lone Eagle wrote:

> At 08:18 AM 22/1/2003, Steve wrote:
> >But when a PC dies leaving all his kit to his PC
> >brother...
>
> That's know around here as Inneago Montoya Syndrome, (as in "The Princess
> Bride") it's banned in every group I know of and I certainly come down very
> hard on it.

I had a player once who tried to pull this one. After his
character was killed (by another PC, long story), he came to me and said,
"okay, my new character is my old character's little brother. They were
super tight, and he wants to figure out how his brother died."
In other words, "I'm a dick and I want payback against the guy
whose character killed mine."
My question to him was, "if [the deceased PC] and his brother were
so close, how come I never knew about him before? He would have made a
great NPC. Oh, wait, you just want to be a dick. Better luck next time."

Marc
Message no. 2
From: stevenhad@*****.co.uk (Steve)
Subject: Twin Brother Bent on Revenge (was: Fencing)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:03:44 +0000 (GMT)
--- Marc Renouf <renouf@********.com> wrote: >
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Lone Eagle wrote:
>
> > At 08:18 AM 22/1/2003, Steve wrote:
> > >But when a PC dies leaving all his kit to his PC
> > >brother...
> >
> > That's know around here as Inneago Montoya
> Syndrome, (as in "The Princess
> > Bride") it's banned in every group I know of and I
> certainly come down very
> > hard on it.
>
> I had a player once who tried to pull this one.
> After his
> character was killed (by another PC, long story), he
> came to me and said,
> "okay, my new character is my old character's little
> brother. They were
> super tight, and he wants to figure out how his
> brother died."
> In other words, "I'm a dick and I want payback
> against the guy
> whose character killed mine."
> My question to him was, "if [the deceased PC] and
> his brother were
> so close, how come I never knew about him before?
> He would have made a
> great NPC. Oh, wait, you just want to be a dick.
> Better luck next time."
>
> Marc
>
>
To be fair to the PC's involved, it's not quite that
bad. The brothers are two different players, who
designed the pair as a team at the start of the game.

Steve

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