Re: Lethality of events

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
> Yes. If the GM can maintain separation between fantasy and reality,
> there's no reason a player can't.

I don't generally run NPCs as a GM the same way I run PCs as a player. 
Do you?

> There are many who do seem to think that "evil" is license to be a
> base thug, yes.

You say that as if running an evil character might mean something else. 
What do you have in mind?

> Hopefully you'll also accept an anecdote then: I've played successful
> games where the players seriously explored evil in their characters'
> motives and actions, and neither I nor anyone associated with them has
> ever expressed the opinion that those players might be evil.

Were the characters actually evil and was the intent to run evil 
characters?  Did the players find the evil that the characters explored 
distasteful or good clean fun?

John Morrow