| From: | Bryan Linn Schuler <schu1545@****.GMI.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Role playing too closely |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:33:20 -0400 |
>> for the FBI. He got pissed in a bar and the bouncers threw him out, so he
>> took the spycar and blew up the bar with a rocket. Needless to say, upon
>> returning to HQ, the base commander unloaded a clip of ammo into his face.
>
>This is an example. "Needless to say?" The FBI doesn't HAVE to perform
>summary executions of their agents for stupidity.. You could just have
>easily have locked the character up for trial and a life sentence, and
>gotten him out of the way without killing him. (And if the other PC's try
>to spring him, well.. That makes for trouble and/or a really good run.)
>>8->
Well, needless to say, it wasn't the first time and this special branch of the
FBI "shouldn't exist". Not only that but we made a backup character for him,
a mutant 5'7" white bunny rabbit from TMNT who was involved in a secret genetics
experiment and now worked for the French Forign Legion. Matt, my player, was
speachless and said "I'm not playing that stupid rabbit!". So we let him make
a new character (this one was an infinatly better one, thank the gods!) and I
introduced the rabbit (Pierre "Barney the Bunny" Greenway) as an NPC. The
rabbit and him got into a fight and the rabbit kicked his butt, bunny-booted
him out a 5th story window into a pool, hotwired his car and wrecked it into a
tree. Matt and I were having a blast pulling (sometimes very nasty) practical
jokes on each other. He never made another "annoy the PC's" character again.
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-Bryan Schuler <schu1545@****.gmi.edu>
-Frobozz of Gridpoint (http://apollo.gmi.edu/~schu1545/shadowrun.html)
-Frobozz of TimeWarp MUD (telnet quark.gmi.edu 5150)
