| From: | David Buehrer dbuehrer@******.carl.org |
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| Subject: | Bugs+Immortality Scam+X-Filesventure |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:40:54 -0700 (MST) |
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/ According to David Buehrer, at 12:26 on 10 Feb 99, the word on
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/ > One of Gurth's recent posts sparked this, so blame him if it gives you the
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/ > If you're a player and your GM is on this list, stop reading now :)
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/ > An insect shaman has come up with a great idea to lure hosts. He's running
/ > a cyrogenics scam (this is Gurth's idea).
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/ Actually, if you want to give credit to the guy who came up with the run,
/ it was Phill Steele's idea. (Some of the old-timers may remember him from
/ back in '94 :)
I vaguely remember him...
/ I like the adventure idea, though a bit more information on how all the
/ insects get the brain disease might be helpful. Share Minds power?
That's one of the X-Files aspects of the adventure. It's not sure how
the disease was transmitted among the insects, not even to the GM.
Another reason not to explain it is that if an explanation is given the
PCs can figure it out and use it. I don't know about you, but one of
my favorite (thought not often used) tactics as a GM is to come up with
something without explaining so that I have a fair ammount of freedom
(though I do try to remain consistent :)
It's kinda like Harlequin's powers and stats. They aren't written down
so that the GM can come up with whatever he needs. And how he
manipulates magic isn't explained so that the GM isn't limited. The
PC's simply cannot beat him and due to lack of information for even the
GM, there's no way they can figure out how to beat him. The brain
disease is like that in that the form of transmition is unkown, even to
the GM. If the GM wants to he can use this same disease again in
another hive and he doesn't need to explain it. Alternitivly the GM
could inflict the disease on one of the characters centering an
adventure on a search for a cure (like when Tinner turned Bull into a
Sasquatch?). I meant to point that out in the first write up, but
forgot :)
-David B.
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