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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net>
Subject: Re: Screwing the Players
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:02:45 -0400 (EDT)
At 12:36 PM 9/24/96 PDT, Richard wrote:

>It always struck me as unfair to make your players iterate all these
>details, it always seemed a mechanic to try and just screw players over,
>waiting for them to put a foot wrong, never giving them the benefit of
>character knowledge. I particularly hate all this GM vs Players tripe,
>in my experience it was always a symptom of an immature GM.

Exactly. Very well articulated!

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"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
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