From:	Loki <loki@*******.com>
Subject:	Re: Threats
Date:	Tue, 03 Sep 1996 22:58:45 -0700

Galen "Marphod" Silversmith wrote:
> > I suspect that I'll have to do a little revising
> > of the material since my players have read a bit of it(one comes to mind as
> > being particularly munchkin-like when it comes to reading GM-only
> > information everyone else is pretty much cool and look upon his actions as
> > being more than slightly dodgy but, in classic munchkin form, he could care
> > less) which will, of course lessen it's value slightly, but I'd still like
> > to know what you all thought about it.
>
> As I said above, modifying the rules section is something I think every
> self-respecting GM needs to do. To be annoying, modify them towards the
> opposite of what the text implies, and annoy the munchkin. Or use my
> policy: every in charcter comment, or out of character hint to another
> player, when the characters involved have no way of having that knowledge
> is -1 Karma for the run. And I have given out negative karma rewards,
> before.

A little rules modifaction can always weed out the munchkin. I've done
it a time or two to catch a player I suspected in my original S/R group.
For example they had fought their way to a executive VP's office to find
the over-confident suit sitting at his desk smiling like the cheshire
cat, his bodyguard mage standing at his left shoulder before the floor
to ceiling windows. A half-cocked street samauri sent a six round
auto-fire blast into the suit, the bullets simply passing through the
illusions and ricocheting of the ballistic glass behind. "What!!! His
mage doesn't know any illusion spells like that!!!" The munchkin samauri
cried. "And how would you know?" I calmly asked as they heard the
corporate chopper lifting from the roof and watched through the window
as it disappeared over the Seattle skyline...

@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


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