From:	Dave Mowbray dave_mowbray@*****.com
Subject:	Priorities in the SR2/SR3
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:17:06 -0400

Dave Mowbray wrote:

> This, while it may be a problem for players who feel their character has
to
> be more powerful than everyone else's, does not represent a problem in
game
> play. The GM can use his discretion to make life just a little more
> difficult for the players who choose metahumanity.
>
> So you wanna be a troll? Well... you don't fit in older model vehicles or
> houses for that matter... you wanna use that gun lying around? Sorry...
> fingers don't fit in the trigger guard... etc... you get the point...
>
> You wanna be a dwarf? Oops... sorry chummer your getaway driver got
> hosed... yeah you have a Car skill of 6... but you can't reach the
> pedals... oh well... better start running before those Red Sam get
here...
>
> See my point?
> -Dave
> P.S. Ork and Elf are a little harder to deal with... but it's still very
> well within the realm of possibility...
>

> Funny, I haven't seen this happen in our games... ;^P. But in all
serious,
>I agree totally with this. As for the Orks, well, let's see: Orks are the
most
>hated metahuman race on the planet. If you are an Ork, most people don't
like
>you because, well, there's just so fragging many of you! While some
players
>don't like to put racism in their games, that's the biggest disadvantage
to
>playing an Ork (except for the -2 to Charisma. As one of the newbies in my
game
>said when I suggested she play an Ork "I don't WANT to play an
unattractive
>person. This is a game after all, not real life.").
> And Dave, just a quick point: replies go after the post you are
replying
>too, not before. Just like I did here. We don't want GridSec to get you
this
>early in your membership to the list ;^P.
>
>*Strago leads the list by saying "HI DAVE!" Then he drop-kicks a
woodchuck*
>
>--Strago

Thanks for the pointer Josh. As for that happening in our games... can you
even begin to imagine the screams of anguish that would produce? You all
say I'm bad enough as it is... but I'll see what I can do.
The hardest thing with GMing racism is not having the player hate YOU. It
is all to easy to fall into the mindset of either "us against the GM" or
"the GM is out to get me", when this happens the game quickly degenerates
into players and Gm's only trying to "beat" one another, which NEVER makes
for a good game.-Dave