[oxfordgamers] Re: Stuff

Okay, I'll concede.
 
In the words of a very twisted man: "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the 
law."
 


"Bolenbaugh, Tom" <TBolenbaugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Marvel deals with that all the time. 

        When the X-Men are throwing down with Magneto over Time's Square, where 
the heck is the Fantastic Four?  Why doesn't your friendly neghborhood 
Spiderman call up Tony Stark every time Beetle shows up?  Heck, why doesn't 
Captain America whip out his Avengers' communicator every time the Red Skull 
raises an army of robots to take over Washington?  Heck, why do the West and 
East Coast Avengers team up more often when they know the stakes they are 
playing for are the safety of the whole world?

        It's just not done! 

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From:   Steve Mollett 
Reply To:       oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent:   Friday, June 6, 2003 1:13 PM 
To:     oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject:        [oxfordgamers] Re: Stuff 

I DO hear what everyone's saying here, BUT we still have the clutter problem, 
even on the NPC level.  
One could simply say the missing NPCs are doing their own thing, but what if 
the PCs are facing a menace that requires a creative solution, BUT one PC 
recalls, "Hey...let's buzz Captain Whitebread on the communicator; he knows how 
to destroy a two-headed org!"

The GM must either do a fancy song and dance on Captain Whitebread NEVER being 
available when you need him, or trot him out as an NPC "ringer" (which would 
also hurt creative game play).

Aaron Einhorn <desire_endless@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

--- Steve Mollett wrote: 
> But 'vanish' in what sense? Retire? Die? Get retconned into never 
> having been introduced? 
> 
> Orrrrr....simply become an inactive PC cluttering the canvas...the 
> very thing I'm hoping to discourage. 

Bingo. There's the rub. But, there still needs to be some flexibility. 
There's a lot to be said for trying something new, but then what 
happens? 

Of course, there's always the possibility of play 'em once, and if you 
choose not to keep them, they become an NPC, for GMs to do with as they 
please. This would free up the canvas, give more NPCs to GMs, and 
address the issue of "Why are the PCs the only Superheroes in this world?" 

===== 
I guess I can see how if you were a salamander Amphibian-American would be a 
step up, but it seems to me you should call a toad a toad.

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