[UA] Players screwed over

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

You, sir, sound like someone to whom the term
"metagaming" holds no fear.  I suspect you allow
"tabletalk" without flinching as well.

Then again, I also thought this hooker really, really
liked me one night not so long ago and I used to
honestly beleive Howard Waldrop was just joking about
preferring fishing to writing.

--- Chad Underkoffler <chadu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> And often, they get frustrated, because they'd
> rather be in a
> different sort of story.

Yeah.  I wish I could run the sort of story people
seem to want to be in, but I just plain hate Farscape.

Do you know, when I first heard of that show, I was
very excited.  I told my wife it was a space show with
puppets and we begged a couple tapes off a friend of
ours who has cable.

We had to apologize because my wife threw one of the
tapes out the window with this sort of undulating
scream. We had to buy them another one.
 
> 
> I also feel that a player being very immersed in a
> character may
> increase the frustration level to ludicrous heights
> thorugh
> continual failures and getting whomped on in an UA
> campaign. And
> UA just won't work in a pure "playing piece PC"
> mode. So there
> needs to be this odd, half-immersion thing.
> 
> My 2 cents.

Actually, I didn't follow this bit too well. I,
personally, don't beleive in total immersion.  I
rather like the Brechtian idea of occasionally telling
people what's SUPPOSED to be happening in a scene.
That's one of the reasons I tell my players as much
about the OU when we get started.  It's up to them to
play dumb or not.

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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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