Re: Difficulty Balance

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mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mary K. Kuhner) wrote:

>The night when the demon-lord granted Fritz something he hadn't
>known he was asking for, and the party had to deal with
>the results:  incredibly tense PC/PC and PC/NPC interactions,
>no combat but some fascinating spell use.  (The effect of casting
>Zone of Truth on someone who doesn't yet know all the new stuff
>in his own mind is bizarre.  Fritz would open his mouth to
>say something, the GM would say "No, you can't say that" and
>Fritz would end up making small choking noises.)
>
>The night at the ogre-mage fortress after the ogre-mage was
>defeated, when Fritz and Charis riddled out whose children they
>were, and Charis finally forced Fritz to confront the demon-lord's
>gift and what it meant.  So many bits of the mystery finally
>clicked into place; after being constantly frustrated in all
>attempts to find out what was going on, it was great to get
>some real insight.  And the stuff between Fritz and Charis was
>intense.

This fascinates me about you an your style of play, Mary.  I just
can't imagine being able to compartmentalise my PC characterisations
enough to get the kind of immersive intensity you seem to be capable
of for a whole party of characters.

Oddly, I do seem to be able to do it reasonably well for NPCs.  I
suppose that may have something to do with my playing the NPCs
more-or-less in Author mode, whereas I play my PCs as immersively I as
I can.