From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: FASA's On/Off Course?
Date:	Wed, 6 May 1998 13:07:37 -0600

Mike Elkins wrote:
/
/ Gurth wrote:
/ > As I was typing this just now, I suddenly realized somebody big gets
/ >taken out of the game world in each year...
/
/ This reminds me of something JMS wrote about writing Babylon 5: (a
/ paraphrase) "every once in a while I look around with a gun in my hand
/ and think-will the story be more interesting without THAT character".
/ The point he was trying to make is that there is no better way to shake
/ things up than to remove something people were counting on.

Hmm... You know, I did that recently in my campaign and didn't even
realize what I was doing when I killed off a Dragon that was boxing
my story line. The players thought they had every thing figured out
until they saw the dragon killed in front of their eyes.

Now I'm rethinking my plan to leave the Bug hive in Denver (moved it
from Chicago for my game). It might be more interesting to have the
PCs wake up one morning to find that the UCAS has lifted the
quarentine and everything is back to normal. I wonder what level of
paranoia that will cause. <EGM>

-David
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