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From: purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva)
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Subject: Re: Generic vs. Personal Scenarios
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Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 01:24:59 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 12 01:24:59 1986
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	Well, I haven't played for years (not much at all in fact) and
have never been a DM, but I've been around the game A LOT since coming
to college (AD&D that is) and found this particular topic interesting.
The campaign that I played in for awhile included 7 players, each with
one character. All had pretty distinct personalities, although some were
more interesting than others. We had a religious zealot cleric, a
spastic bloodthirsty cleric, an egocentric obnoxious thief (who loved to
cook) a basically pacifistic druid, a paranoid magician, a magician who
was a sex-fiend, and a fighter, who actually never developed much
personality at all. There were all kind of fun quirks, like the fact
that the one cleric was so stupid that he had a spear that was more
intelligent than he was, and so ugly that the fighter's dog had a higher
charisma. And the campaigns were almost always molded around what the
charaters were like and what they had done previously. Villians
reoccured occasionally, gods that were offended continued to strike
back, etc. Character weaknesses were played on sometimes, although I
don't think that there was ever an adventure that was more directed
towards one character than the others, except in the cases where one of
the characters had offended some demon, god, or other villian (usually
this was Flash the thief) and the rest of us got caught up in the fray.
	Having never really played a "generic" game, I can't compare. But
I do know that I prefered the campaigns that especially played on the
characters personalities rather than "hack and slay" or "Monty Hall".
And as for having more than one character, we had one player who, for
awhile, played both his Druid (Coer) and his character's wife (Denai).
Coer had a lot more personality than Denai and eventually she remained
in one city to start a religion, which we figured was better than
killing her off. 
	Ironically enough, our fighter's name was "Generic". ;-)

	Share and enjoy,

	elizabeth g. purtell

	(Lady Godiva)