playing the durn game

[Stacy Stroud]

At 06:13 PM 2/7/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> Say, has anyone else on the list actually PLAYED the game yet?  I'd
>>hate for this to be one of those games that people buy and really like
>>and... never play.
>
>I ran the adventure in the back of the book a while ago. The rules worked 
>well, but the scenario wasnt good for a one-shot.
>

That scenario is a beautiful "Twilight Zone"-esque creation, but I have to
agree that it doesn't seem like the world's greatest RPG adventure,
*especially* not an introductory adventure.

There is almost no way for the PCs to figure out what actually happened
even afterward.  Maybe that wouldn't be so bad in a high-mystery sort of
game, but the very brilliance of the premise is obscured by the inability
of those playing it to actually comprehend it.

There *is* that opening narration bit, which sort of explains what's going
on to the players, if not the PCs -- but that doesn't seem to be a great
technique for a game, either.  Despite its "mix'n'match" structure, I find
"Pinfeathers" a far superior scenario to "Bill in Three Persons."

"BiTR" would make a great TV episode, though.  


Stacy Stroud
sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net