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From: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Character Killing
Message-ID: <5157@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 18:45:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5157
Posted: Wed May  1 18:45:05 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 3-May-85 01:08:22 EDT
References: <510@daemen.UUCP>
Reply-To: mccolm@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eric McColm)
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Keywords: player-problems
Summary: 

In article <510@daemen.UUCP> fox@daemen.UUCP (Merlin) writes:
>      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...

Regrettably true, and one of the major problems with serious play.  It is
now a hard-and-fast rule in any campaign I am in that the course of the
game should not affect the course of peoples' relationships.

>After all that's all any of the frp games is, just a game.  

{general statement of agreement, but read on...}

>     I can see interparty killing only if the players have no choice in 
>the matter...{edited}...This is not the same as one character out
>and out attacking him just because the was strife between the people running
>the characters.

While interparty killing is common in some campaigns for perfectly legitimate
reasons (evil characters, characters in character, overblown senses of honor,
duty, greed, envy, etc.), it's happening on account of players hating each
other is grounds for Permanent Genocide (ie-the player is now barred from the
campaign {see? we have a term for it; that's how far it's gone}).

>     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.

True, but one PC killing another is reasonable if it is reasonable for the
PC without regard for the Player.  Trouble outside of the game indicates
deeper problems between the players, and what they really need is to be able
to talk it over before some other more real symptom breaks them apart.

Remember, in frp, anything's fair if it's in character, and without
malicious intent.
					  -Eric
					  ...!ucla-cs!mccolm
Shade and sweet water...