[UA] OOC Knowledge and Never saying No (was Players screwed over)

[James O'Rance]

Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> said:

 >>>I have a player in my 7th sea game who reads every section of every book 
he can get his hands on, and now that the surprise has been ruined, he'll 
make blanket statements to other players about things like: the emperor 
can't teleport.<<<

Fat bastard. I once had a player who really wanted to play my campaign, but 
had read some of the material that I wanted to use. I hadn't run him before, 
so I allowed him to play on the condition that his character would not be 
able to talk about the modules. In fact, his character was mute. In fact, it 
was dead.

(well, undead)

Maybe I was a bit harsh, but spoiling a campaign is not highly tolerated 
round here.

 >>>Unfortunately, he's seen as one of the area patron saints of gaming and 
it's a big political issue if you don't invite him to games (one I usually 
take the rap for) but kicking him out would cause problems with the other 
players.  One of whom worships the fat stupid jerk.<<<

It may be hard, but in this situation I'd simply stop running the campaign. 
"I'm sorry, but as Bob knows all of the campaign secrets, and we don't want 
to lose him from out group, I'll be running something else from now on."

Then find something obscure and out-of-print and run that instead. 
Alternatively, find an interesting GURPS supplement (eg New Sun) and run it 
with a non-GURPS system, so nobody can tell what books to rush out and buy.

 >>>
   That's one of the laws of improvisational anything.
   Never say no.

I think this rule being passed into roleplaying games is one of the worst 
things that White Wolf ever did to role-playing games.<<<

Depends on the style and the maturity of the gaming group. As roleplaying 
really is an activity where one idiot can ruin it for everybody, I agree 
that the GM has to exercise some responsibility.

Cheers,


James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/


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