If I've learned anything in twenty-five years of gamemastering, it's this:
NEVER depend on capturing the PCs. Whatever plot you've devised instantly takes second place to the storyline of "not getting captured." I once had a PC literally attempt to bluff (modified Corbomite Maneuver) several _hundred_ hostile Martian plains tribesmen -- _even after_ I'd completely broken into expository mode and reminded him that the plains tribes frequently take captives for ransom and seldom mistreat their prisoners.
It's like some instinct goes off inside their heads.
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Date: 2008-05-02 01:21 pm (UTC)NEVER depend on capturing the PCs. Whatever plot you've devised instantly takes second place to the storyline of "not getting captured." I once had a PC literally attempt to bluff (modified Corbomite Maneuver) several _hundred_ hostile Martian plains tribesmen -- _even after_ I'd completely broken into expository mode and reminded him that the plains tribes frequently take captives for ransom and seldom mistreat their prisoners.
It's like some instinct goes off inside their heads.
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