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From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: <EGMG>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 05:58:52 -0500
I think I can also apply for being a GM in general, but just in case:

I had the media hound a team of runners as revenge by a corp they
raided. After they walzed in with guns ablaze I decided that the corp
would make them the story of the week. The other channels were quick
to follow and before they knew it they were on national tv, had their
friends interviewed, lost most of their contacts, lost all their
save houses thanks to news helicopters flying around them, and were
hit by two teams who thought they were "bad for biz".
In the end two runners went abroad, one was killed during some of
the fights (all on TV of course). Mostly thanks to one of them
who couldn't take it any more and sold his story to the media for a
good sum of money, but was killed shortly afterwards because the two
other runners hired a hitman to punish him for blowing their cover.

Evil enough? >:)

Sorry, No.
That's just a good shadowrun.
SR i supposed to be gritty and tough. an EGM takes it one step beyond.

Let me explain it this way.

Bad GM - "You have to extract a guy from a corp."
Good GM - "You have to extract Seth Danforth from Renraku Arcology within
the next ten days."
Tough GM - "You have to extract Seth Danforth - A quadrapelegic - From RA
within the next ten days."
Mean GM - "You have to geek Seth Danforth - A quadrapelegic - within the
next ten days."
Cruel GM - "You have to geek Seth Danforth - A 10 year old quad.- within the
next ten days.
Evil GM - "Seth Danforth is an infant quadrapelegic. You are hired by his
mother to use him to beat his father to death. The mother, is angry that the
father donated defective genetic material, since she's a die-hard Alamos 2K
member, which of course means that she plans on geeking any meta's in the
party after the job is done. Of course you aren't being paid for this job,
because the mother is forcing you into doing it, or she'll activate the
nanites you accidently ingested in that beer she served you last night,
Which will liquify your internal organs. Have a nice day. ;-)"

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://listen.to/Tinner
"Is Spike here yet? I wanna talk muppets." - Graht

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