[K5pbem] Some comments from the GM

[Jamie David Jeans]

> 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?

Actually, I was really hoping for something such as this to come out, as I
need a model in order to rework my profile of Korey Winters from. This is
perfect, to say the least.

Jamie


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