| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Bugs+Immortality Scam+X-Filesventure |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:22:51 +0100 |
the street was...
> / > If you're a player and your GM is on this list, stop reading now :)
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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...
He wrote up some stuff for NERPS and a "GM's Guide" (actually a collection
of tables) that sat on cerebus, so you may have gotten the name from
there. You weren't on the list in the first half of '94, were you?
> / 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.
I don't think I'd want a brain disease as a GM, thank you very much ;)
> 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 :)
True, though it also depends on the group. Some groups will want an
explanation for things that happen, others (like mine) seem content to
accept it as part of the world when the GM does something like this.
> 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
As the players in my group found out a few weeks ago... (Okay, I tempted
them a bit -- one had gotten angry at Harlequin for harming Jane Foster,
and when Harley was standing at the edge of the building (the tempting
bit) the PC tried to push him off of it. Only the shaman's levitate spell
saved the PC's life.)
> (like when Tinner turned Bull into a Sasquatch?)
No, I don't... I do remember Bull becoming a wendigo, though :)
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