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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: RE2:multiple characters
Message-ID: <249@birtch.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 04:51:19 EST
Article-I.D.: birtch.249
Posted: Wed Jan  8 04:51:19 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jan-86 07:07:21 EST
References: <688@ihlts.UUCP>
Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
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Organization: The Real Estate Conspiracy
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Summary: Relax you fools! You make this look like net.abortion!!!

In article <688@ihlts.UUCP> rainbow@ihlts.UUCP (Robert) writes:
>>Christine utzoo!globetek!chris
>It really is amzing how someone can take an article and
>and totally corrupt it with clever ommissions. Also, when one
>person tries to present their views, why try to tear them down?
>Can't they just intelligently present their views in turn?

Sure, and quite true! On the other hand you, Robert, DID manage to mis-represent
your position.

And YOU, Christine, have never played a game with all characters Chaotic Neutral
and different shades of Evil - it's fun!

As for multi-character games : MOST people have problems handling ONE caharcter!
TWO are the absolute maximum PCs I allow per player because even with two
characters most players ROLE-PLAY only ONE character and let the other character
have little more personality than your run-of-the-mill NPCs! And the game is
just that - ROLE-PLAYING ( no matter WHAT system!).

SO, here is my $0.02 worth : multiple characters are OK when the adventure
DEMANDS a larger number of PCs than the number of players and no adequate NPC
support can be generated. I PREFER GM-ing for 3-4 players and no more than 10 PC
( that works out to  a bit over 2 PCs per player). More than that - and the
large combat and city encounters  turn to a Game Masters NIGHTMARE.

I also try to let PLAYERS take controll of hired NPC cannon-fodder : less work
for me and I always can stopthe players when they try send NPCs to a sure death
("Go ahead! There is NOTHING in that cave! Ignore that SMOKE, you KNOW there is
no such thing as DRAGONS!" ;-)

for multi-character PROPONENTS : ever think WHY most NPCs have little
                 personality and GMs tend to loath large encounters?
for multi-character OPPONENTS : ever tried to take over a goblin village with
                one 2nd level mage and 2 1st level fighters?!
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