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Drat! Brilliant post raising an excellent point. Two totally different styles of game-play, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Pretty much boils down to GM's personal preferences and what the players like/expect. I think the only way to go wrong would be to mix 'n' match 'em...

Yep. Go out of town for the wrong couple of days and you could come back and find everything changed - not necessarily for the better.

Yet you don't believe that "fudging" in favour of the PCs is cheating and you advocate its use. My mileage certainly does vary. Perhaps you could read again what I wrote about "near misses" cf "way outta the ball park", how there has to be a "rational reason" for either to have the extra roll...

That's pretty much what I do as well. As I'm GMing a future world that has this one as its past, contemporary pop-culture references are not too anachronistic (they might be "dated" but at least you can't say "huh? Movies weren't invented when this game is set") and occasionally I might...

A few notes on the game world. I'm running what Peter Christian calls a "Specialist's World" (Interface Vol. 1 No. 4 pp 16-21 "And Bear Arms..." by Peter Christian) rather than the "Duelist's World" portrayed by the Cyberpunk core game books. A Specialist's World is more like those portrayed...

Where did you get the impression that the player(s) was/were always going to win? I gathered from the reported player reactions that there was no doubt in their minds that the GM would happily let the character die. It's not like they immediately said "hah, how are you going to write the...

I get to play "Papers and Paychecks" (or "Papers and Paycheques" down here) five days a week and it bores me to tears... that's why I GM Cyberpunk (or an approximation thereof) every two weeks. I don't think I'd like to actually live in a Corporate dystopia, as I suspect my life wouldn't be as...

Pretty much my take as well. If he'd needed 13 and rolled a 5, he's missed by miles and is well on his way to lava-induced immolation but such a close roll to me is "missed it by that much" territory and, given the self-preservation instinct, I'd say the character would automatically attempt to...

I can recite most of the Yarn of the Nancy Bell from memory and all of Jabberwocky and some other Lewis Carroll poems and a large number of poems from AA Milne to Rbt Burns to Banjo Patterson (his "Bush Christening" is a hoot) to WE Henley and many many others. Also have an extensive collection...

And if doing something because {it is/would be} "cool" is in-character? I would not mind at all if that's the way the character is always played. If it was a major break from the character's normal way of doing things and obviously only suggested because the player saw some means of...

Excellent. More GMs should do that to reward/encourage inventive, innovative gaming. I've known a few gamers of the kind you describe.

Sadly, I can't give XP to Umbran again at the moment, either. We had a GM years ago whose personal hygiene was nonexistent and whose BO was probably deadlier than the opponents we encountered - but gods, could he stir up a great game! We never failed to enjoy ourselves - even when things were...

Player backgrounds include AD&D, W:TA, V:TM (both tabletop and Mind's Eye Theatre) but when I said "I'm starting up a Cyberpunk game set in a Dark Future Corporate-Controlled dystopia" they said "Right on! Count me in." I said "I'm making the characters as pre-Gens so I can get the skill mix...

Agree with all of that, especially the points/reasons I highlighted. If the players decide to pick up a plot hook, the timeline becomes even more relevant (e.g. say they decided they wanted to stop a serial killer before he next strikes) if they don't, at least I know when to report events if...

Now, that's just downright eerie. Before I came to the computer I had the penultimate verse of that very poem going through my brain (the bit about eating the cook in a week or less and then being rescued) - then I sit down and find that quote staring me in the face from the bottom of your post.

The plots and plans of the NPCs in my world often have timeframes - "they will take X days/weeks/months to achieve this unless there is intervention", one of the serial killers is killing about once every two weeks now and slowly escalating his activities... there are just some things you need...

I occasionally will do that to set up an initial scenario - such as much of the preamble to getting the characters to Australia then their boss's office then esconced in their new lodgings (provided for them by their employer). Along the way, there were opportunities for the players to do...

I need a new laptop. One capable of running at least Windows XP as OneNote will not run on Win98, nor will .NET Framework 3.5 (which is required to run Scene Sound). And getting a new laptop will also allow proper dual screen use so I can show the players what I want them to see and still keep...

I do take your point. Depending on the gaming system, that could wind up accrueing lots of disadvantages and/or costing lots of character points. Even under Ocelot's modified Cyberpunk Character Generation rules, and taking a lot of really major disadvantages, in order to build up the...

I feel your pain - I tried substituting ducks but found that duck crap was harder to get off the character sheets than the blood...