Re: [DL] What to do, what to do.....

["David L. Hoff" <dlhoff1@charter.net>]

Jeff Shoffner wrote:

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>Okay, just finished Night Train with a group of well, 'inexperienced'
>players, shall we say, & I have a slight problem.  The main posse managed to
>wipe out the vampires, but when sunrise began to come, two of them got this
>insane (well maybe not from their point of view) idea that the train was
>going to vanish once the sun rose, & proceeded to abandon train; screw the
>townsfolk.  One person, the newspaper writer, had Heroic, & decided, "I may
>be killed, but I will do my best to see it to the end" & proceeded to the
>engine compartment where he had a heck of a time battling the zombie.  Did
>manage to win.  Stops the train, gets the folks back to the town, & proceeds
>to do his tale tellin' where he succeeds & gets a Legend Chip.  No problem
>there.
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>However, we have these two yeller bellies that abandoned train.  Now, while
>they didn't royally screw up in this adventure (heck, they helped wipe out
>the vampires, they just didn't realize that the only one left was the
>zombie), they did leave the victims to their fate.  So, I'm thinking they
>don't deserve a Black Chip, but they definitely need some smacking with a
>big stick.  Any suggestions?  My first inclination is to short them one Fate
>Chip draw next time to let them know "Fate has frowned upon you."
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Unless one or both of "the yellow bellies" have the Heroic hinderance as 
well and chose to go against it, I don't think they should suffer any 
true penalty other than the fact that the one who did stop the train 
should have gotten more chips for that adventure then they did. As for 
getting the Hated hinderance, that should only happen if the townspeople 
know that they were abandoned. Even so, I wouldn't make the hinderance 
more than one point, and would allow them to buy it off over time by 
doing good deeds in town.If you have already given the two of them the 
same chips for the adventure that you gave the hero, then maybe 
slighting them a chip at the beginning of the next adventure would be a 
way to make up for that.

--David L. Hoff
dlhoff1@charter.net