| From: | lrdslvrhnd@*****.com (Kevin McB) |
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| Subject: | The Shadowrun NPC Wiki is now open! |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:10:45 -0400 |
>
> You don't have a Chinese that delivers?
> How do you survive?
> You'll be saying you don't have guns* for the players to fondle next...
>
> *We have a number of replicas, purchased by the players, which are laid out
> on the table before the game. It allows players to rack the slide when
> their character does it...etc.
> One of the most memorable uses (from my point of view) was a while ago, the
> team had captured one of the leading light "bad guys" - and it happened to
> be one that my character had some history with, he had no idea of her
> involvement and felt betrayed... - I spent most of the interrogation
> sitting sullenly at the side of the table cocking and easing the hammer
> home on a Peacemaker replica (representing a Ruger Super Warhawk).
> It worked beautifully, giving me something to do in the interrogation
> without having to break the character's mood by speaking and really
> worrying the prisoner.
> Props really help the freeform side sometimes...
Heh. When I played, most of us had Nerf guns that we'd shoot at the
GM instead of saying "I fire at the ork" Of course, he *also* had a
Nerf gun that he fired at us... I once had one of the suction cup
darts stick to my glasses, and he declared that my character's eye
covers stopped the bullet *g*
Props are GOOD. Unless you have a slightly nervous habit of playing
with stuff in your hands and a GM who decides that if you pick up one
of the props (other than to move it aside), your character is actually
performing the action... I started a bar fight or two when I started
playing with a foam knife instead of my eraser 8-}
Kevin... who not only didn't have Chinese that delivered back then,
but didn't even have CHINESE (it was compensated by having a mobile
greasy burger place set up shop in the parking lot behind the building
8-} )
