From:	Carsten Gehling alvion@****.uni2.dk
Subject:	Priorities in the SR2/SR3
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:53:23 +0100

From: Dave Mowbray <dave_mowbray@*****.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 5:17 PM

> 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

Hmm... I can't remember any gaming session, where my players got angry at
ME. But then again that might be because I always make sure there is one
single person/institution that they can blame.

I've bombed a PC's car, let the Lone Star bust him and keep him/beat him up.
The player's reaction to this treatment was: "Who was the rat?"

Of course you can't guard yourself against bad roleplayers, but making sure
that there is one or more NPCs who's obviously to blame, you're well off.

Right now I've got an interesting aspect of racism in the group. One guy is
playing a yakuza soldier, who is very traditional concerning metahumans.
Until now, there have been no metas in the group, but then marches in a
troll (another player who wanted a new character), whose "services" the
group needs. Naturally this has given some complications, when the Yak guys
biases became clear. But the group has to solve these problems themselves.

- Carsten

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