[UA] The Lingo

[Tim Toner]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Bisaillon" <knightbane at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [UA] The Lingo


> Don't you just hate that. I hate it when you are playing a game and then a
> player breaks out the rule book to question you  (the game master) on
> something that you did wrong.
>

That's nothing compared to a friend of mine in high school who'd break into
my room to read the notes I'd made on the next weekend's session.  I figured
it out a few years into the campaign (hey, he was pretty good in not letting
it be known), and planted a fake entry.  In the real game, the secret door
he found was the lesser known cousin of the gaping maw in the beginning of
Tomb of Horrors (stable sphere of annihilation...lost whole parties in the
first room of that one).  He actually threw his dice bag at me, and stormed
out of the room.

Now, when someone pulls crap like that, I pull them aside after the game,
and ask them, up front, "Do you trust me to tell a good story?"  "Sure,"
they reply.  Then I give them a safeword, to remind them that they're doing
something that jeopardizes the fun for everyone else.  I've never had to use
it.



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