[UA] The Lingo

[Tim Bisaillon]

> > 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.

This is one of the reasons why I create my own world, though it may seem 
like a lot of work since theire is a perfectly good default world sitting 
right there before me. But, as a GM I know that my players if they will like 
the game will go out and buy the book for themselves and may want to run it 
themselves.

At this point in time I have finished my own version of the Unknown Armies 
world and am ready to sit down and get a serious campaign going on. I have 
changed things and some of the major players as well, replacing them with my 
twisted version of them.

You can say I have a lot of time on my hands. The tentative title of my 
campaign is "Darker than the Darkest" and it's going to scare the tarnation 
out of my players indeed. It might make them not want to play a contempary 
game for a little while afterwards. Making them beg to play something fun 
and frivilous like D&D until they can handle the next chapter.

tjb


"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."
             Ted Theodore Logan
             Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure


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