From:	Hobbes Patrol Headquarters <TYGER@****.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>
Subject:	Players will be players...
Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 1993 14:10:41 -0500

>I forgot to save the names that go with these message excerpts. Sorry.

>Hmm, does this mean you guys are actually organised? Just a question, do
>you know this player from outside the gaming circle? I ask because our
>games usually come from within out on-campus club (RPSIG). Do you
>have some kind of school sponsored sign-up?

I claim this one...

>A new game store opened in town (right across the street from Florida
>International University) and the owners encourage people to run games in
>the store. I posted my signup sheet there for the game I'm running sunday.
>It is a really nice location to game - Subway is next door and another
>sandwich shop, Kinkos and a grocery store are in the adjacent shopping
>center. I'm running the game there for a few weeks as sort of auditions for
>my game - the last new people I recruited were hack & slashers rather than
>roleplayers and never really gelled into a group.

Is this heaven? No, it's Seattle...

>My main reasoning behind all these limitations was to give the PCs something
>to aspire to. If they already have betaware, handmade decks, or initiation,
>what do they have to look forward to?
>Joe <jpb1@******.com>

I recently tried this logic on my 'party' (when a player asked me if he
could have a monofilimant shuriken). The player hummed & hawed and
basically told me that he wanted to be the best character in the game. I
read this as he dosn't want to lose. I may be wrong, but that's how I
heard it.

Oh, FYI, this is the guy who is making 'Beyond Shadowrun', an 'Alternate
universe' game that everyone WILL be a torqued out cybermage type.
***sigh*** back to the drawing board...

-Tyger

(New Sig!)

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nothing matters. Words and words and words. You go to a party... people
sit around and say things. Anything. Just to talk. Put forth views and
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-Luicifer
From "Virtual Realities"
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