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Re: Elements of a brick oriented RPG
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Thu, 6 Jun 2002 01:26:30 GMT
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In article <3CFD1621.A7B42E9A@mindspring.com>,
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> This sounds to me like a scenario which isn't designed correctly for the
> tone of the campaign the GM wants to run. I also question the bit: "but
> you do have to be flexible to get the story where it needs to go." To me
> that sounds like you're forcing the story in a particular direction.
> Why?
Because I'd like my players to be happy. I could instead, decide about how
long it takes for a saboteur to blow up the ship, and then after
fifteen minutes of game time have passed, say, "The walls of the ship
glow white-hot and then you don't see anything else. Ever.
If I lived through that, I wouldn't get many people in my next game.
> Some thoughts on how to better set up this scenario:
Take a few months and think of everything you can. A half hour into the
game one of the players is going to think of something you didn't-- that's
what they do. You _have to be flexible_. You may have to fudge things.
"Uh... that doesn't work" only covers it so long. And the doubly annoying
thing is I don't have months to set up a game...
I'm all for stupidity being terminal. I'm not so big on letting people be
dead because they bit on my red herring.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
jd@forinash.not ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) I'm curious, was this an example of a real scenario, and I'm just missing things because there's no way you can compress a game session into a posting or two, or is this a constructed example? If the latter, it sounds like a poorly constructed (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) <snip> (...) This sounds to me like a scenario which isn't designed correctly for the tone of the campaign the GM wants to run. I also question the bit: "but you do have to be flexible to get the story where it needs to go." To me that sounds (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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