Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!

From: "Greg Ellis" <gnellis@ifn.net>

Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Sam Palmer wrote in message ...
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>        I have a question for all you GM's out there.  If a player has
>>been giving you "grief" would you intentionally "sabotage" their turn or
>>generally make their gaming experince difficult for them?
>>
>>Cheers
>Sam Palmer

Funny, something like this just occurred in Fire On The Suns Game 2. The
player was attempting to introduce new, unapproved technology into the game
before his racial design was even completed and had already begun making
deals for the tranfer of said technologies in exchange for others.

In FOTS, if a player does not include the GM in any messages, those messages
are disallowed. In addition, the game is scifi, but I try real hard not to
mix "magic" and technology (aside from the obviously magic things like warp
drives and such).

Anyway, I suspended the player until such time as his racial design was
completed and the technologies he was trying to trade were defined
appropriately. I disallowed any communications between the player and any
other players in the game, disallowed any such tech transfers, and told all
of the other players (all 24 of them) what I was doing and why. I then told
everyone that I hoped we could clear up this entire matter within the next
24 hours as I didn't want it to delay the game.

As a GM, sometimes you just have to play hardball with the players,
especially when they're trying to "get away" with doing something illegal.

Thanks,
Greg Ellis
President, Ellis & Company Publishing
Fire On The Suns GM, Games 2 and 3
Please visit our website at www.fireonthesuns.com

References

Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
Matthew Shelley <matthew@mshelley.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
Sam Palmer <SAM@homeway.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
ggshaw11@aol.com (GGShaw11)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Roy" <roy@the-isles.demon.co.uk>
Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Spellbinder Games - best avoided!
"Steve Pritchard" <steve@spelbind.demon.co.uk>
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000