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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mort" data-source="post: 8775321" data-attributes="member: 762">What you are effectively doing is asking the players to pick their favorite item to start with and then ensuring they never ever get access to that item, it's a really HARD sell.A few years ago I played in a Star Wars game at Gen Con. The description was that of a fun courier adventure and pregens were provided. Wanted to try the system so my friend and I signed up.6 players at the table and each of us picked the pregens they wanted. Someone picked the face, someone picked the strong heavy weapons specialist, etc.Ok, everyone has the character they like and is ready.5 minutes into the adventure there's some kind of disturbance and "something" happens but the GM is vague on what and the courier mission continues.As the mission continues and we interact with the adventure we realize the PLOT TWIST was that the "disturbance" put us in some kind of "opposite world." Strong characters are weak, face characters can't talk their way out of a paper bag, ranged specialists couldn't hit the broad side of a barn etc.Essentially, everyone was stuck with the exact opposite of the character they picked/wanted.Far from being a fun experience it was an extremely frustrating/tedious 4 hours that I would not care to repeat. And sadly, it soured me on the d6 version of star wars for years.Point is, promising a premise and then yanking that premise away for some supposed fun payoff later? IME, it results in frustrated, disappointed players.</blockquote>

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