starting a new campaign?

[Rainbow Six]

No worries, Tigger, I didn't think you were having a go at all mate! I was really just kinda elaborating a bit on how different circumstances can lead to different mind sets, but I absolutely didn't take anything as being critical...just mates having a discussion!

Cheers

Dave

[Targan]

I don't restrict myself in games, even if the subject matter is really grim or disturbing. In my last T2K campaign I included situations where there were children in peril, dead children, horribly abused children, starving children and children in a variety of other situations. A couple of times I included situations with children just to see whether the PCs still had consciences. Basically I wanted to gauge just how far they had fallen. I figured if I couldn't goad them into doing the right thing for children in need, they were truly lost. Surprisingly Major Po did do the right thing on several occasions in terms of looking after children in need.

[pmulcahy11b]

I'm the same way with animals -- a whole pack of dogs could be playing in a minefield without a scratch, while the first player that sets foot inside could get his leg blown off.

[weswood]

If you're doing the Embassy Personnell thing, I just thought/remembered a twist you could throw in.

When I was a young Marine going through my MOS trianing (Logistics/Embarkation) in Norfolk Va, they would use us students as OpFor on sevral scenarios. My favorite was Embassy Rescue. 8-10 students were given roles as Embassy Personnel, Ambassodar, Amb's wife, Doplimat, CIA officer, etc. We used a rappelling tower as the embassy. The training unit would come in, put a perimeter around the "embassy" and rescure the people from the demonstrators ( the rest of the students). I got to play the CIA guy once, he has a secret mission to smuggle a 1kg bag of white powder labeled "the good stuff". The training unit knew about it, cause I got searched and questioned through the whole exercise, but they never found it. The Woman Marine who was playing the Amb's wife had it in a toy baby's blanket. We changed the scenario somewhat, the Amb's wife and the CIA guy were having an affair and the "good stuff" was to be thier nest egg.