[MUD-Dev] The Difference between..

[Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com>]

JCLawrence wrote 
>In <3.0.2.32.19970622125646.00b5415c#mail,tenetwork.com>, on 06/22/97 
>   at 04:22 PM, Jeff Kesselman <jeffk#tenetwork,com> said:
>
>>Roll playing and Rule playing...
>
>>GM: Awfulness the Evilone waves his arms, a glow emanates from his
>>fingertips and around him the trees and shrubs wither and die, as you
>>watch the entire graveyard picks up the glow and comes alive as the
>>dead crawl out of their crypts. One spots you and croaks
>>"BRAAAAIIINSS"!
>
>>Joe Roleplayer: COOL! I scream and hide behind the cleric shouting
>>"cast protection from evil!!"
>
>>John Ruleplayer: (Furiously thumbing through the rulebook) "What
>>spell is that? I don't see that anywhere..."
>
>>'nuff said
>
>My player response:
>
>  Are they flammable?  

(Lots more questions removed)

My GM Answer:

I dunno... why don't you try to find out?

(A nicer form of "You don't know that, do you.")

Jeff Kesselman
Jeff Kesselman
Snr. Game Integration Engineer
TEN -- The Total Entertainment Network -- www.ten.net

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