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From: Fast Pass fastpass@********.com.ph
Subject: Underworld Campaigns.
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 01:13:09 +0800
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Renouf <renouf@********.COM>
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
<SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Life Sucks


>Yes, I've run a couple of campaigns that involve
just 2 or 3 PC's.
>I almost like them better, because it gives me a
chance to put more time
>into fleshing out each character's contacts (my
players have this habit of
>taking like 20 contacts each, so you can see how
this can be draining).
>The last one like this that I ran was a mob
campaign, in which the players
>were bottom feeders in the mafia food-chain, and
were trying to work their
>way up. It worked out really well, and I spent a
lot of time developing
>the "family" structure and the internecine
politics that went on both
>within and between the families. The players
loved it.

Interesting, very interesting. I tried a similiar
campaign once, my biggest problem was that the PCs
tried to redo the St. Valentines Day massacre ...
with all the Seattle bosses as their targets.

Vito: "Hey, if we can get Biggio to meeta widda
odders, we mighta geek 'em all anda taka over."

Michael: "Sure pop!"

... why is it everyone wants to use the name Vito
Corleone? I wish they'd show some originality.

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