From:	Andre' Selmer <031SEA@******.WITS.AC.ZA>
Subject:	Re: Role playing too closely
Date:	Thu, 14 Sep 1995 08:57:21 +0200

}Yeah, well. That was pretty much a natural consequence of the character's
}actions. The NPC was acting as may have been natural for that NPC.. I'm
}talking about going out of one's way to kill PC's without real plot
}justification, just because they were giving _players_ grief.

Another thing, is that one must be careful that the constant
disruptions aren't an effect of the dice rolls. Because the worse the
rolls, more likely the more zany the idea to counter or get around a
problem. As a side point, this occured in a game of ED last night.
Between 4 players we rolled 27 fumbles. The ideas that we where using
to get out of the situations left us laughing more time than we spent
playing... Back the point..

}
}> Another time was a player in a Beyond the Supernatural campaign that worked
}
}> 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->
}
How about sent the agent in for 're-programming'. Indoctrination
and mental tomfoolery is a *very* powerful tool, the problem being
that it is difficult to Role-play.

Andre'

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