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From: Michael Garoni <Michael_Garoni@****.INTERSOLV.COM>
Subject: Re[2]: More Spelling errors.
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:00:00 LCL
:]In a game I was in the mage created the illusion of a shark flying
:]through the air, and then into an APC (true the LOS would be blocked,
:]but the GM was too busy laughing to think about rules), neddless to say
:]that the crew were somewhat distressed by the fact of a shark inside the
:]APC with them, and they tryed to shoot it. Bad move, quick case of blender.
:]To make matters worse, one of the crew, in his dieing gasp decide to prime
:]a grenade. Well, the inside of the APC was then redecotated in a lovely
:]shade of scarlet.

A'Deus, I didn't realise that you were in on that one. I personally always felt
that when GMing your primary responsibility to ensure that ALL involved have a
good time. You shouldn't let the rules get in the way of a good idea. Reward
lateral thinking - people who took novel approaches in my games had a better
chance of success than those who always tried to manipulate the rules.

The way that I worked, and still do was that if a player's thinking wasn't bound
by rulesm then neither should the GMs. If the player always thought in terms of
rules then so did I.

Obi Wan

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