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

["Reuben McCallum" <bloopy40@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:19:35 EDT
>From: Dusarat@aol.com
>Subject: [HOE] Would you allow this man his character?
>
>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?
I have a general rule for character gen, anyway; if I don't like the look of 
it, it goes. That's the rule for good and bad draws. And in my opinion, it's 
in the players best interest; how much fun can a character who is good at 
absolutely everything be? Sure, you can shoot down people at 3 miles off, 
leap tall buildings in a single bound, as well as design nuclear rockets in 
your spare time, but how much fun is that? I'ts the old superman/batman 
divide. Now I know people are going to disagree with me, but superman bored 
me to tears. Of course he succeeded. He's invincible. No surprises there. 
Now batman, with his abundance of flaws, was forced to rely on much more 
sneaky and interesting methods.
Now this having been said, if some makes a really bad draw, one that mucks 
up their whole character idea (no, I don't consider "Unstoppable Gun Nut" a 
valid character idea) then I let him redraw. It's only right.
Reuben McCallum
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