From:	Loki <loki@*******.com>
Subject:	Re: Oh Dear, hate mail...:)
Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:25:38 -0700

Steven Ratkovich wrote:
>
> >Other players follow a combination of slapping foreheads and "Burn -
> >damn you" glares at me. Eventually, thanks to a combination of good
> >luck, and old wood, they were able to dig, burrow, crawl and blast their
> >way off the dock, out of the rubble, and into Puget Sound. Climbing out
> >of the sound, the team were somewhat unimpressed that they had had to
> >ditch most of their larger items (assault rifles, body armour, long
> >coats, etc) in order to be able to swim.
> >
> >All in all, the run netted them 12,000 each, and cost them in excess of
> >75,000 - 100,000 each to replace vehicles and equipment. I was quite
> >pleased with the result, but for some strange reason I've been getting
> >hate mail ever since.
> >
> >Anyone got any ideas why????
> >
> Oh, you are an evil GM... Tinner's fond of doing the same thing. My
> character had spent several months in game time and I personally spent
> several hours in real time designing and buildinga heavily modified GMC
> Bulldog combat vehicle. I also spent in exgggcess of 500,000 nuyen, money
> that I'd been saving for a LONG time. Well, the first run we take it on, I
> assume my character (intelligence 8) would be smart enough to automatically
> set the security sustem on the vehicle (rating 8 at the time). I didn't
> bother specifically saying I was arming trhe security system, though. I
> really should know better.

I handle my players the same way, I never assume on the part of their
characters. I must be informed of actions taken. Just ask them about the
other night. The just finish a hit on Renraku for which they were hired
by Kyle Morgan. Now Kyle (and Perianwyr) is more then well acquainted
with three members fo the group, after taken a sveral story fall back in
Maria Mercurial. Knowing this still doesn't inform me of doing anything
(like picking up weapons or armor) during the two hour window befor
going to meet with Kyle and pick up "payment" for their job in an
abandoned warehouse in the shadows of the archology. I should also add
they group had also hit a well known fixer's casino for 25,000,000Y and
has a bounty out on them, is believed to have a bio-chemical warfare
sample Renraku and the UCAS want badly, and so on.

Still they didn't inform me or any preparations, so I let them stroll
right into to the trap unarmed, unarmored, unwitting...

A GM has to know certain things...


@>-,--'--- Loki

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

*********************************************
Poisoned Elves
http://www.netzone.com/~loki/
*********************************************