| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Eleanor Holmes) |
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| Subject: | A new kind of meet |
| Date: | Wed Sep 26 05:00:01 2001 |
>
>I wanted to make it a test with the Dancer's charisma + dancing skill
>against the player's Willpower, then the number of successes is the target
>number for the player's willpower roll. But that seemed a bit excessive.
>
>Any thoughts?
Cute and gimmicky, from a game point of view, but totally unprofessional
from a gameworld point of view. There are better ways of transmitting an
undetectable message than via a very distracting encounter which
incidentally puts the Johnson somewhat at risk (if the stereotypical
Johnsons vs. runners confrontationalism is followed in your game). It would
certainly drastically skew the future attitude and behaviour of that
Johnson; it'd be hard to play cooler-than-thou when you know you were
slinking all over that guy's lap last week.
So, I'd say it either counts as cute and gimmicky, but relatively unlikely
- or a cheap way of gratifying immature adolescent male players, and still
relatively unlikely.
Not to mention I have serious issues with you saying that the character has
to succeed on a Willpower roll against the Johnson's Charisma + Dancing;
I've never appreciated GM attitudes that allow them to enforce particular
attitudes or tendencies on a character, and I think this is a way of doing
that. I don't care if she's naked and wriggling in his lap; if the player
wants to have their character be able to ignore it and think normally,
that's (IMO) their prerogative. (Of course, it's more fun to see a player
who's willing to roleplay his character's distraction or mistakes, and I'm
all for that! It's just that I have real issues with GMs trying to specify
a character's personal reaction to a situation.)
That was probably a more serious response than you were looking for, though.
Lady Jestyr
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just
have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird
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