[K5pbem] Some comments from the GM

[robert dorf]

Um, my character is kind of a comic relief nebbish, just tough enough to survive the trouble he gets into and then get into worse. His primary survival strategy is that few people feel like going to the trouble of killing him. 

So, if you wish him to be less 'leet, it's not a problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Surbrook" <susano at guisarme.net>
To: "Kazei 5 PBEM" <k5pbem at devermore.net>
Subject: [K5pbem] Some comments from the GM
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:50:19 -0500

> 
> Greetings everyone.
> 
> I have started to post material on the PCs involved in the game.  
> First up is Vivian Lau, who can be found here:
> 
> http://k5pbem.devermore.net/characters/k52039/vivian.html
> 
> This format is what I want to see for all the PCs involved. This is 
>   the public consumption character sheet for all active PCs, and I 
> hope  to have one from each player by the time Turn 1 is due to be 
> posted  in mid-February.
> 
> For those of you who don't know the HERO System, or who are sort of 
>   stuck on your character sheet -- I'll accept a profile like this. 
>   Although I'd like HERO System character sheets (it allows me to 
> edit  out what I feel are unreasonable  elements and questionable 
> designs,  I also realize this is not a face-to-face game with 
> combats run-out  in Phases or with experience given in exact 
> quantities. So I will be  lenient on the need for a character sheet.
> 
> Now, speaking of characters, I'm going to make a request -- which 
> at  the moment is only a request, later I may simply out-and-out 
> state.  Basically, I'm going to ask that people take a breath, step 
> back from  some of their PC concepts, and decide "Do I really need 
> to be all  that?" What I mean, is, I am seeing what seems to be  
> trend to create  "Gord, Mutant Alien Son-of-the-Gods" in which PCs 
> seem to have things  piled on them left and right. It smacks of 
> what is called in fanfic  "Mary Sueism" in which characters can do 
> anything and everything,  usually better than the canon characters. 
> In Kazei 5, it seems people  seem to feel the need to be uber-leet 
> walking death machines who can  trounce anything and everything, 
> and also who are rich, handsome,  epsers, with state-of-the-art 
> gear no one else has ever heard of.
> 
> Let's not play that game, shall we? This is not a contest, where 
> last  man standing wins. This is also not a PBEM where failure to 
> purchase  some obscure power, skill, or gadget means your character 
> will die  horribly at the hands of, well, anything. This is 
> supposed to be a  somewhat realistic world -- albeit one with 
> replicated humans,  epsers, and cyborgs. Don't be afraid to scale 
> back your PC concept,  to actually have a weakness (or, an area 
> you're not competent in), to  have human feelings, emotions, and 
> failings. This is not RIFTS,  people, and Hong Kong is not brimming 
> with monstered-out cyberjunkies  waiting to whack the hapless PC.
> 
> Anyway, I've said my piece. Anyone have any questions or comments?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Surbrook
> susano at guisarme . net http://surbrook.devermore.net/index/index.html
> 
> "Never disillusion someone who's carrying a laser gun..."
> 
> Millicent Mehitabel Mudd
> Ozy & Millie
> 
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