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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Everyone(almost) who plays Shadowrun is a Munchkin!
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 10:50:30 +0200
>> I must say that since I discovered wargaming/roleplaying, most other games
>> seem pale in comparison. I just don't like them much anymore...
>>
>Then you don't play the complicated enough games.

Probably not, but when everyone you know (apart from a few RPers) isn't used
to anything more complicated than Monopoly... Hell, they almost get scared
and tell me to go away when I even try to say the word "roleplaying game" :)

>Back on track though: Is there a skill Game Designer or Game R&D? would it be
>concentration, a general or a specialization skill? What about Game Player?

All Special Skills, IMHO.

> These skills, which they are in real life, or just ways of playing the
>character? Thought: A street samuri that play's RPG's on saturday to get rid
>of the boredom of the runs ;)

I made a character for a soon-too-be-started PBEM who has a skill called
Roleplaying. Beats me what exactly he'll use it for, but I like the idea :)

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