From:	P Ward <P.Ward@**.CF.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Honesty and Incompetence. Shoot them
Date:	Tue, 13 Jun 1995 08:09:12 BST

> Honestly, I wouldn't allow this sort of activity unless it was
> *way* in character. I have no problem with PC vs. PC strife, but
> vendetta characters just piss me off.


Oh yeah, I agree, I try to discourage it, and usually do so _very_
effectively. It happens some times, that's all....


> I must agree wholeheartedly on the improv thing, though. If you
> are familiar with your game-world as a dynamic *place* rather than as a
> staged series of runs, you are much more prepared for your players'
> oddball schemes and you can really do some neat things. I have one
> player who is idly planning a bank-heist on the side. In between doses
> of Thorazine, that is...

Heh, I won't ask who's doing the thorazine.

I put together a rough idea of the plot, get some of the set-piecs collected
together in my had, and that's it. Oh, and a few hand-outs, like the scream-
sheets that for some reason, all the PC's want to see their names in!

I keep telling them, a runner with his name in the papers is a dead runner,
but they don;t listen... ho-hum.

It's good this way, I've DM'd for about 6 years, played for 12, and I find
that 75% of my runs come off the top of my ehad, on the spot... It's just a
matter of knowing enough of the source material to make it up when you have
to :-) :-)

Phil (Renegade)