Re: [DL] Playing the Bad Guys...

["Caias Brian Ward" <talespinner@mindspring.com>]

Who said they would be NPCs or extras?  You can have a bad guy as a player
character.  I've been running Vampire LARPs for 4 years (non-MET, we despise
the Rock Paper Scissor nonsense), and refuse to use non-staff people as
NPCs.  We write our plots to avoid that.  Since you have so many spots to
fill that you can handle in tabletop as NPCs, you need to let people play
the gamut of characters types, from white hat to black heart...

As for Deadlands, we plan on continuing events, so if people can keep their
evil well hidden, it's not a problem... otherwise, they get killed, and
score one for the good guys...

Caias Brian Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Van Overwalle <d_a_r_k_m_a_n_9876@yahoo.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: [DL] Playing the Bad Guys...


> Being involved in the leading of a LARP of Camarilla
> (VtM), I can tell you, that it is best to use the same
> people for your "extras". Asking normal PC's to play
> reappearing NPC's, is not a good idea. You have to
> fill 'em in on a part of the plot-line, and when they
> grow tired of their NPC and start playing a PC again,
> it's really hard for them not to go look into the
> things the player knows, but the character isn't
> supposed to know.
>
> That being said, I guess this would be kind of a
> one-off thing, so I don't see any problems there !
>
> Dark "No remarks on blood-sucking this time guys !
> That's OT, and there seem to have been enough problems
> with that lately !!!" Man
>
> --- Caias Brian Ward <talespinner@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> > So did I...   I think I asked politely...   In any
> > case, let us move on...
> >
> > Would people be interesting in playing the 'bad
> > guys" in a LARP?  Such as
> > cultists and whatnot?  Since a LARP needs to be
> > filled with characters that
> > otherwise would be run as NPCs by the Marshall,
> > would being the 'bad guys'
> > be of interest to people, or do they still prefer to
> > play heroic characters?
> >
> > Caias
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Napoleon48@aol.com>
> > To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 12:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: [DL][OT] Jerk Wadd
> >
> >
> > > Whoah! Well, i've mostly been deleting this
> > thread, but I read this
> > message,
> > > and now I think I should have deleted it, too.
> > (not because of its content
> > or
> > > what the guy said, but because it means that a
> > flame war is on a Deadlands
> > > list, and I always thought we were above this.)
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