Re: [HOE] Campaign advice

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

> The one fellow made a character straight from Interstate '76 ('fro, leisure 
> suit, mirror shades...you get the drill). And he was a total gun freak. The 
> other fellow was a tail-teller, and a pacifist to boot. So you could see 
> some problems arising there. The tension between the characters (and the 
> players, I might add) got to the point everyone just quit the game.

Some of my group taunt each other no end, but it's no problem for the
players.  They've been playing together 20 years or more.  I'm the
newbie -- chiefly brought in, I sometimes think, to give the 20-year
tenured god/king/emperor/marshal a turn to *play*.