| From: | Arcady arcady@***.net |
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| Subject: | SR Narrowing of focus |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:36:04 +700 |
>>> style nearly as much as the GM.
>>
>>So if you're not fighting in Shadowrun (or stealing: action), what else are
>>you doing? SR doesn't really encourage roleplaying that much.
>>-Twist
>
>Again, I think that the system has much less to do with encouraging roleplaying
than the GM. I know of GMs (one in
Personally I think the Shadowrun system discourages some roleplay. There is
a die roll mechanic and modifier available for almost any situation. That means
that a group could easily skip past a lot of the roleplay by simply rolling
the dice.
I had the odd situation last week of having my players complain to me about
the negotiation scenes. They insisted on haggling a price with the Johnson so
I made them roleplay it. For about 40 minutes... Afterwards they complained
that I should have just let them make a dice roll... (they weren't happy with
getting "only" 60 thousand nuyen for rescusing a kidnapped girl...)
And in the same discussion I later heard a complaint that people weren't staying
in character and roleplaying enough... :)
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