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From: steve@siemens.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Character Killing
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 09:10:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 09:10:00 1985
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Nf-From: siemens!steve    Apr 30 09:10:00 1985


Absolute and total BALONEY!!!!

It is great for pc's to attack and kill each other!  What is the most
dangerous type of creature in the world?  PC's of course.  In most of
the frp'ing I've played in, other PC's were the most dangerous thing
around.  For example, two friends and I took over the local barony once.
While we were subsequently off adventuring, some other player characters
heard that someone had just taken over the barony, so they decided to
do the same.  If we were there, I don't know who would have survived.
We realized the danger of hanging around the dungeon area so we went off
into the wilderness and built a monastary (one of us was a cleric).
A year or two later, other players heard rumors of a monastery out in
the wilderness and came to investigate.  This one guy met us and then went
on his way, and subsequently picked up a high-level chaotic sword and
managed to get the balrogs that lived much further in the wilderness
angry with him.  He ran back to the monastary for help, but got killed
before he got there.  However, he had led angry balrogs to us!  So once
we managed to squeak out of that one we left the monastary far behind
and established a small inconspicuous lair in a cavern and were very careful
not to let anyonehave even the slightest hint where it was.  Nevertheless,
had the game continued, I'm sure someone would have found us and brought
great peril to us.

If PC's never attack PC's, then its always all players together against
the DM.  But when 5 or so people sit down to play a game, it shouldn't
be 4 against 1, it should be several against several against a couple
others.

Well, anyway,
-Steve Clark

ps.  I am the one that promised the "colorful magic system", and I am
working on posting parts 2 and onward.  Probably they'll come out in a
week.