[UA] paranoia

[Sonja Pieper]

Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:

> Hmmm... that may be the problem. 

Actually I do not quite see any problem with the girl ...
see below =)

> 1. the illusion of freedom (the idea that you are
> 2. detatched emotional response.  You can feel

I understand what you mean. I do not intend to
let him have a campaign to play out a beautiful
relationship ..... I intend to have some very
personal way to put pressure on him - all the worse
this guy does not have a girl-friend in real-life
>:->

don't forget that I am just at the beginning of
the campaign and it was just the prelude ... I just
never thought I would manage to set him up when I
did manage though - I instantly changed plans ....

At the moment the players have not yet encountered
anything really awful besides a good friend vanishing
who will turn up again in a couple of days with
a few memories missing just like one of the characters
and I sooooo hope they make the connection themselves.

My plan is to start of very slow to carry over
the normality of real life into the game just
for a couple of sessions and then take it all away.

> Then again, I've never walked away from a Feng Shui
> game without a body count and I really enjoy those.

I know Feng Shui and I enjoyed a very nice campaign
run by one of my players .... and everyone had a
nice bodycount every time .... and in the end my
character died a most beautiful death =)

> Man, I wish my groups were like yours, Sonja.  They
> talk half the work out of being a GM.  And they
> SCHEME?  That is so COOL.  The more complex the
> better.

well they make up the schemes they believe the
others are making up. actually they scare themselves
most of the time ....

So far I love it =)
 
> Watch "Bridge of the River Quai" as an example of what
> to do with complex schemes.

wasn't that one of those boring old movies about
war and war and war? I remember my dad has it on tape?

> > they know a lot more than I do ....
> 
> Trust me, they don't.  Human perception is an

I know .... i know .... I am just so immensely 
fascinated by the effort they put up especially
after we had a harsh discussion in my fantasy
gaming group about the 'effort players are supposed to put
into the game' (one of us does not and the rest
does and ... etc. imagine the rest)

ciao
Sonja

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