Multiple guns for extra dice?
Paolo D.:
Quote from: jburneko on June 13, 2010, 05:08:07 PM
How To Fix It: Have a scared, desperate, sad-eyed 15 year old girl start shooting at him.
I agree: I tried that as a GM and it worked veeeery well! ;-)
lumpley:
Hey Peter.
So, yes, legal, as everybody says.
I don't even think of it as a problem to be fixed. Here's a guy who carries a bunch of guns, right? That's fine. Have your NPCs respond to him as they would to a guy who carries a bunch of guns -- some scared, some fascinated, some indifferent, some contemptuous -- not to make a point or teach a lesson, just to incorporate it into the world. No reason for you not to embrace it.
Sooner or later, and you don't have to hurry to this or try to arrange it artificially, that player's going to come up against a problem that he doesn't want to use his guns to solve. (A scared-eyed 15-year-old girl might be just the one.) If he's been smart as a player, he'll have arranged his dice otherwise so that he has some options left, which is fine; if he hasn't, he'll be stuck and he'll have to make a hard call, which is also fine. Or maybe he'll never come up against such a problem, maybe he'll always be ready and willing to shoot someone; that's fine too, and interesting. Really? Always?
Now, this is supposing that the player wants to play the game, of course. It's possible that taking five guns is his way of telling you that he doesn't want to play, in which case it doesn't matter how legal it is. I have no reason to think that this is the case for this player, but I have seen it once or twice.
-Vincent
Paul T:
Also the remember that any use of those guns' dice is subject to the "most discriminating player at the table" rule. If it's not convincing, don't let him roll those dice. Sometimes there's a significant impact to having many guns, sometimes it's not any different from having just one.
But in some ways, having five guns is not all that different from having a 5d6 Gun. And that's just saying something about how much he might be tempted to shoot people.
Marshall Burns:
Let's not forget all those wonderful d4s he's gonna roll.
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