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From: Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net>
Subject: Re: Screw the Players!
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:39:30 -0500
At 03:58 PM 9/21/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Agreed! And I hope I didn't come across in my earlier post as this
>evil/killer GM.

Naw, not at all.

>As for my preivous example of the group walking blindly into their
>meeting with Kyle, they pointed out the error first and I thought it
>only logical to let it happen because there are still things you as the
>GM can't assume. <"We're professional shadowrunners you should assume
>we'd always go back and pick up weapons in the two hours before a meet
>like this.">

After all, there's a difference between gearing up for action and deciding
to lock the doors on the car when you leave. It's pretty much assumed that
everytime the gamers park in a bad part of town, they'll roll up the windows
and lock the doors - People don't always go along in armor and packin' for
trouble.

-Thomas Deeny
the Cartoonist at large is on the web at www2.cy-net.net/~fauxpas

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

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