| From: | chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich) |
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| Subject: | Re: PC's Morality |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:39:17 -0500 (EST) |
>
>> I recently started a campaign, after being away from the game for
>> about a year (not by choice mine you). And the PC's were indirectly
>> involved with the death of 149 "innocent" children being held
>> in a corp facility.
>
> In-campaign ramifications aside, I would *not* reduce the players'
>Karma award in any way, especially if the butchery of the children was in
>character. As pertains the the rabid discussion we had several months
>ago, Karma is not a measure of good or evil, but a gauge of experience.
>Even if it's out of character, if they succeeded, they should still get
>the success and/or survival karma from the run itself, they just won't
>get role-playing karma. I'll stop now before I get too heated...
>
>> Mind you the corp is offering a reward for any
>> information leading to the capture of said PCs, whom they had a
>> relatively good video of. I asked the players if they felt any
>> remorse whatsoever about the deaths. And they said "No." My
>> question is should I as a GM make their lives a living hell? I mean
>> being somewhat resposible for the deaths of a 149 children, wouldn't
>> it ruin their street reputations for getting jobs? What would you
>> other GM's do, if this type of situation came up in your campaign?
>
> In my mind, the runners committed the cardinal sin not of killing
>innocents but of getting caught in the act. A "relatively good video" is
>enough to put their faces all over the evening news. Bad PR is as deadly
>for a runner as bad planning. Lots of people have suggested lots of good
>ideas as far as social backlash from such an event, so for the sake of
>brevity, I'll let this part go, suggesting only that you play the
>reactions of the populace at large as though it were real. People will
>be horrified, followed by downright angry, and they *will* act upon it.
>
>
I believe this is where you either decide to get a new group, or after
torturing these chars for a few weeks, kill them and let the players make
new ones,and hope they learned from their mistakes...:)
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