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Stupid GM Tricks

Started by VectorSigma, August 29, 2009, 09:17:40 PM

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#15
September 02, 2009, 02:54:44 AM
Quote from: Jeffrey Straszheim;325537Just a suggestion, check with your players before you try any of this stuff.  In a recent campaign, my GM decided to have us reboot our characters (for some strange metaphysical reason) with new versions who had some key feature of their past change.  Now, I'm a "Leave me alone I want to play my character," sort of guy, and I found this a major imposition.

The new character I came up with kinda sucked compared to the original.

That's always the risk with trying any of the more stupid of these "tricks". If you pull any kind of "bait & switch", you better be DAMN sure that your players are going to appreciate it.

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September 02, 2009, 10:18:16 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;325945That's always the risk with trying any of the more stupid of these "tricks". If you pull any kind of "bait & switch", you better be DAMN sure that your players are going to appreciate it.

Mmm. The ones that work don't change characters permanently -- that seems to me like a really risky thing to do arbitrarily.

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September 02, 2009, 02:42:51 PM
Quote from: Jeffrey Straszheim;325537Just a suggestion, check with your players before you try any of this stuff.

Nah. Experience is a wonderful teacher.

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#18
September 02, 2009, 06:15:19 PM
Quote from: Jeffrey Straszheim;325537Just a suggestion, check with your players before you try any of this stuff.  In a recent campaign, my GM decided to have us reboot our characters

Checking with your players - or, alternately, working within some kind of established parameters (even implicit ones) - is a given.  There's a lot of ground between "ooh, he's doing something kinda neat" and "what the heavenly fuck is he doing to the game?".  But that's terrain a GM navigates all the time.

The 'reboot' you mention doesn't sound like a 'stupid gm trick', but rather a 'dirty trick', or GM dickery.  There's a substantial difference there.
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#19
September 03, 2009, 09:37:01 AM
Quote from: VectorSigma;326173The 'reboot' you mention doesn't sound like a 'stupid gm trick', but rather a 'dirty trick', or GM dickery.  There's a substantial difference there.

Well, I wouldn't be prepared to call it "dickery".  I mean, this guy is my friend, and he meant well.  It just didn't work for me, that is all.

But yeah, I agree with the other stuff you say.
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