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From: bem8435@ritcv.UUCP (William "Power Chord" Trainor)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Multiple characters
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 16:45:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 16:45:54 1985
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Reply-To: wlt4326@ritcv!ritvp.UUCP (William "Oops, I died again" Trainor)
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In article <1767@uwmacc.UUCP> oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) writes:
>  Of course, the backup character had to be able to fit
>in with the happenings.  If the party was down a dungeon or in the middle of
>a desert, the character couldn't just appear; he/she would have to meet them
>in a town, or possibly "on the road."  This worked fairly well, probably
>because the DM kept things lively (pun), and the supporting cast didn't
>have to show up very often.

Recently, I ran under a (very good) DM, with a 1st level charecter, and was plagued by bad die rolls (as was many of the party).  When I died in a dungeon, in order to get my "spare" charector into the game (I have died so many times that I have a few
pre-rolleds), he had me wash up through a pool of water that was mysteriously connected to the river on which the boat I was in sank, etc., along with another "dead"
player.  He did this for everyone who died while we were still in that dungeon
(a virtual eternity), so it got to the point where, after a fatalaty in combat, the
rest of the party said "Let's go to the pool and see what we get this time!".

I held the record for having 3 charectors on that ill fated boat.

Bill "I've got to get luckier dice" Trainor


"....The dwarf said he had spotted Cindy in the corner, so I took out my bow and
+3 arrow of Brady slaying.  I was held back by the fighter, who in turn  started
to demand of her information to where her mother was.  Cindy began to cry, which
angered the fighter, so he used her as a door ram.  Just then, Alice came in and
blew him away with a .38 special...."

From the "Kill the Bradys" module at Rudicon '85