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From: Valerie A Olson <volson@********.ca>
Subject: Re: Killing in Shadowrun...
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 17:09:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 22 May 1996, TopCat wrote:

>
> Which is kind of my point, few runners ever really are prepared to hit an
> installation the likes of one of Aztechnology's holdings. If the players
> don't actively describe to me what they do to cover their tracks during a
> run, then I assume they do nothing of the sort. If they want to cast
> physmask and other spells, then they better cast them and I better know
> about it. If they want to alter their appearances heavily, then they better
> tell me how they do so. If the players were to write down a standard set of
> procedures that they do before every run, then I'd use those as the basis
> (and it'd cut the time spent telling me everything they do at the start of a
> run considerably). In short, I'll not "give" the players benefit of the
> doubt. If you forgot that guns aren't allowed into the nightclub, but you
> always carry yours, you won't be let in. If you don't wear a mask of some
> sort, security will know exactly what you look like when you break in. If
> you don't have a stealth skill, you aren't going to be real sneaky, no
> matter how much you try to convince me you are. Mean gamemaster or realistic?
>
T.C. you have no idea how much I would love to play in one of your games!

The ROO-MAN.
via his wife.

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