From:	dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer)
Subject:	Re: Screwing the Players
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:52:17 -0600 (MDT)

Ubiquitous wrote:
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|At 12:36 PM 9/24/96 PDT, Richard wrote:
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|>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!

Okay, there's one argument to be made for screwing
players: when its all in good fun. In the group I game
most of us take turns GMing. It's a matter of pride as to
how well we can screw with a character. It's also a matter
of pride as to how well we can deal with our characters
getting screwed. And, I don't mean screwed as in killed,
loss of magic, loss of limbs or senses, the crud, etc. I
mean screwed as in messing with the characters mind and/or
life. In our group its part of the fun, but its *not* the
focus of the game.

-David

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