Not playing chaotics

From: rexabean_at_ozemail.com.au
Date: Tue Apr 13 05:10:30 1999


G'day all,

Despie the warning in Cults of Terror/Lords of Terror there is a=  lot to be said for playing chaos creatures as the occasional=  one-off [I agree that long term playing of such undesirables is=  probably not good, just look at all those VampireTM players=  ;-)].

MOB trys not to admit he wrote such a thing nowadays, but his=  three session Thanatari convention module gave a particularly=  good feel as to why successful chaotics generally don't last=  past the morning after (although inflciting appalling damage on=  their surroundings; chaos or non-chaos in the process).

Also playing a one-off chaos monsters "go out and destroy" module=  can help give you a feel for what makes these different=  creatures/cults tick. As opposed to just being different faces=  on the same "D&D orc" TM the party must fight to get to their=  goal. [The vampires domination? of the village chief and his=  wife so that they kept sending people out in small groups in to=  the dark, dark woods and never came back was a particularly=  elegant twist.]

Maybe Australians are just weird ?

Cheers, Andrew



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