Re: what is it about angels?

In article <1170252376.875993.75940@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Will in New Haven <bill.reich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Of course, why they should KNOW that they can't take on
>the angel succesfully, if that is what they want to do, is another
>story. Encounters that are so transparent that the outcome is known to
>the players are not my cuppa tea.

Because they're professionals.

If you are a professional dragon-hunter, you may know that old black
dragons have skin so tough it will turn any arrow.  If all you have
are bows, and it is on the wing, you can see that you will lose.  I
don't have a problem with this; and I can't play someone as a professional
dragon-hunter who is consistently ignorant about this sort of thing.
I just can't believe in such a character.

Here, the GM assumed he could trust the game-system's ranking, so
was led into making statements about world history and PC understanding
which turned out to be obviously false--not because he had some good
in-game reason for making them false, but because the system ranking
was spectacularly (IMO) broken.

If the PCs had known they couldn't win, they might have done the exact
same things, but player and GM would have been a lot less distracted
and put off by the sudden discovery that things weren't what they were
supposed to be.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]