Re: [HOE] Would you allow this man his character?

["Kurt Criscione" <blight777@hotmail.com>]

>From: Risik@aol.com
>Reply-To: hoe@gamerz.net
>To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
>Subject: Re: [HOE] Would you allow this man his character?
>Date: Thu Jun 22 07:30:17 2000
>
><<Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net> writes
>Dusarat@aol.com wrote:
>   In a recent character creation session, a friend of mine drew the aces 
>of spades, hearts, and Diamonds AS WELL AS the Red joker with a suit of 
>spades...
>    Now, if you knew that this man, had, say, purchased a book of card 
>tricks last week and had spent the week practicing them, would you say I 
>made the right call in making him re-draw for the character?
>

Having a younger brother who is a member of the IBM (International 
Brotherhood of Magicians)  I understand where you are coming from.  I watch 
his shuffling like a hawk, looking for the little shuffle tricks they do.  
I'll only tell you this, if you see him doing this sort of "cut & shuffle" 
where he pulls bootm cards onto the top of the deck with a backward motion 
then be suspect.

I'll tell you this though, I have it worse he's a huckster and I have to 
constant remind him not to touch his arcane deck and not to reshuffle it 
after every spell.  Plus I think his dice are wieghted he rolled a bloody 28 
for his Soulblast spell... can you say dead extras!

Just to let you know it normally takes considerably longer than a week to 
learn all the stacking and shuffling secrets, be suspicious but don't scream 
cheater everytime he touches a deck of cards.  believe me it leads to rather 
messy fights (my brother has "shot" entire decks of cards into my face on 
the few times I've actually cuaght him cheating)

just my two cents

KMC
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