AW: [DL] shootin' hostages

["Markus Finster" <markus.finster@chello.at>]

> >Now one of the heroes, who's this real mean, tough
> 'uphold-the-law-by-breaking-the-law' type hasn't got a clear shot
> at the bad
> guy - so he shoots the hostage in the shoulder.....
> [snip]
>
> All the concepts of blow outs, & knock down aside, just one question:  if
> you're the good guy, & a crack shot, shouldn't you be shooting the BAD guy
> to begin with?  I mean, even in the movies, Dirty Harry manages to tag the
> guy in the small spot of head showing from behind the hostage.  Or Robocop
> manages to shoot through the skirt INSTEAD of the hostage.  Who'd want to
> reenact Keanu Reeves' stunt in Speed?

Well there is one adventure, where a NPC on sides of the posse pulls with
stunt off - sucessful. Knowing my players, it's bound that some day they're
gonna try that, too.

Markus