[UA] Jailbreak (was Re: joy & sorrow)

[David M Jacobs]

At 04:10 PM 7/03/02 -0800, John Tynes wrote:

>I once ran "In Media Res" at a convention for a group of 10-12 year-old kids.
>It was a terrible idea for all kinds of reasons, but in those days I was 
>crazy
>enough to do it. It went sort of okay, and was certainly a challenge.

Could you provide details?  A friend of mine was trapped in a friend's 
holiday house a few weeks back, with her 12-year-old cousins and their 
friends (all girls, too).  He had my T8 rulebook with him at the time, and 
was trying to scare them off with "you won't like it, it's all about this 
and that".  It didn't work; he almost had to beat them off.  They loved the 
idea.  My friend is only a novice GM, however, and so had to let their 
enthusiasm hang.

It's not an impossible bind for a GM to find him/herself in.  So, what 
specific obstacles did you have to overcome with such young players?



David M Jacobs
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http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

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