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From: Dvixen <dvixen@********.COM>
Subject: Re: Magical drain
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 20:14:27 -0700
NightLife wrote:
>
> At 05:37 PM 7/3/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >On 3 Jul 97 at 17:15, Fisher, Victor wrote:
> >
> >> Why doesn't everyone just use the Increased Lethality Rules for
> >> drain, listed in the Shadowrun, 2nd edition rule book, IF it suits
> their
> >> campaign, instead of trying to enforce a system wide moritorium on
> what
> >> drain should be? I thought that's what they were there for.
>
> Because a gm has to deal with whiners who can't grasp his/her reasons
> behind
> why he/she belives in the lethality rules.

If a GM can't set ground rules, then I think the GM shouldn't be.

My players, desipte their many failings, whining amongst them, don't
argue with my interpretation of the how letha the game is. It's *my*
world they are playing in. If they didn't like it, they'd play with
someone else.

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