Re: Running the games (WAS: Re: ISG)

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Roger Stenning \(G1LIW\), on Tue, 02 Oct 2001 the word on the street was...

> A house rule I tend to follow when running games, is that *anything* that
> is said (or done), provided that it is not said as an out-of-character
> comment (or action), is said (or done) by the character *right there and
> then*

I try to do the same thing, but because I have the habit of making OOC comments myself 
from time to time, I can't always get away with it... For a while now I've been 
attempting to enforce my group to use a "time-out" symbol whenever they're saying 
something OOC, and it's working okay so far -- though to the extent that there's one 
player who sometimes does this when it _is_ his character speaking... (And naturally, 
I'll ignore anything from him that appears to be IC while he's doing the time-out 
symbol :)

> Anyone else got similar happenings/events they wanna share (It's
> on-topic, as it's to do with running the games, ok?)?

The one I remember best was in a Shadowrun adventure, where the PCs were dropped into 
Chicago, which at the time was suffering from a rather nasty case of insect spirit 
infestation; one of the PCs had got himself a few LAWs before going in, to deal with 
this threat (he thought they might help...). He's got one of the LAWs ready (just in 
case...), and asks if there's anything moving around. I make a comment that there's 
something scurrying down the street, upon which he jokes, "I'll shoot it!" Too bad the 
other PCs were standing right behind him...

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