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From: fox@daemen.UUCP (Merlin)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Character Killing
Message-ID: <510@daemen.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 13:50:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 27 13:50:28 1985
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Organization: Daemen College, Amherst NY
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*******Replace this line with your dead character**********

     To all you DM's and PC's,

     I am a DM and a Player of about 5 yrs and 7yrs respectively. 
I have found that killing characters is not worth the trouble. 
Reasons:
      I have found that killing characters brings up many little hatreds
between friends, not PC's, but people themselves.  This easily breaks 
long-time friendships, and it has broken them. This I find to be rather
sad to see two or more people hate each other just because of a game. 
After all that's all any of the frp games is, just a game.  
     I have also found that DM's should always make known to the players
if he or she is running strict AD&D or a modified AD&D. If your playing
strict AD&D you should only use what has been published by TSR or accepted
by TSR.  Most DM's I know play a modified AD&D this is because they find
that they don't use all the rules or use some other rules. 
     Q. Do you use material components in your campaign?
     Q. Do you use the reaction charts?
     Q. Do you use the loyality charts?
     Q. Do you use the suprise charts?
(I might be wrong about this one so if I am correct me)
     Q. Do you use stuff from the Dungeoner, if I am not mistaken TSR does
	 not endorse the Dungeoner.

     If you don't use all of these then your not playing what most people 
cal AD&D.  There is a rule stating that the DM can do anything (within reason)
that he wishes to do.  There is no reason that the DM can't bring in Gamma 
World, and still call it AD&D, but as most people see it as not AD&D,
but that's getting off the subject.
    In my views and many DM's that I know, for a PC to kill off another PC 
even if the Alignments clash is just plain stupid. If the alignments clash 
then the person who is bringing in a character that is the opposite alignment
of the party should not be allowed by the DM to bring in that PC. 
     I can see interparty killing only if the players have no choice in 
the matteri.e. One member is killed byby another because he thought that
the he was attacking a monster.  This is not the same as one character out
and out attacking him just because the was strife between the people running
the characters.  Which is usually the reason that most people will attack or
set a fatal trap for another.
     The thing that I am saying to all of you frp'ers out there is that 
for one PC to attack another PC just cause he is doing something that he 
doesn't like is not worth the time or trouble it causes outside of the 
game.

UUCP : {decvax, dual, rocksanne, watmath, rocksvax} !sunybcs!daemen!fox

	Anything contained within this is may own statements and should 
in no way be considered law-binding......I just think that it's good advice

     Any statements and/or comments are welcome.

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