From:	"Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Saving the Team By Self Sacrifice
Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:43:20 -0400

Black Death asks:
>And when you and your team gets into a bind and >you try to save the team by
self-sacrifice your GM >wimps out and lets you live?

Kohl replys:
I used to be know as the 'Killer GM'. The standing joke for anyone
joining my campaign was make sure you've got two or three characters
ready to go. Otherwise, you won't make it thru the night! [I'm not as
bad now. I only draw blood once a week now!]
Truth be told, I've only taken down 6 player characters since I've
been running Shadowrun [I do still get critized for playing 'hardball'
in the game.]. And I think if a player wants to go out with a bang,
saving the group, the GM shouldn't cheat her of that chance.
I mentioned before about a girl in my group who was running a
physad. She was definitely the 'anti-hero' type, but when she had the
chance to walk [read run] away from getting killed, and losing the party
and her PC's sister, she stood her ground, even though it would get her
dead. I was really sorry to do it, but it's what the character and the
player would have done, so who am I to argue? She knew there was no way
out; even I couldn't figure a way, and I designed the 'trap'. What I
didn't expect was her finding a loophole in my 'Master Plan' and using
her sacrifice to take out one of my nastiest NPCS into hell with her.
After picking my jaw off the floor, I was kinda pleased. Though the
character died, she went by her own rules, and the player outwitted me,
which is refreshing. I don't like gaming with a bunch of, pardon the
expression, 'non-imaginitive dullards'.
The player was a little sad about the whole thing, but she was
steadfast in saying it's what the character would have done, and she
wasn't sorry for it. The player DID call me a twisted bastard for
thinking up the whole situation in the first place. :}


Kohl, the Ork Physad Gunslinger, driving around in his brand new Audi!
[Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooommmmmmm!!! Beep! Beep!]