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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1477001" data-attributes="member: 14403">Find out what games he has played in the past.  I've found that generally those kind of tactics come from people who have played Cyberpunk 2020.  I'm not dissing CP2020, I love the game too it is just that you have to be more self reliant in that game since you can't trust anyone.  I remember I kind of ruined my first game of Shadowrun because I applied CP2020 thinking to the game.  I was playing a Street Samurai and my team got shot up pretty bad.  Even though we won I had to be taken to the hospital for recovery.  The party mage took it upon himself to cast healing magic on me while I was unconcious in the ER and then helped himself to what he thought was a fair amount of my credits for the service.  When I came to and found out that my credit account was low I questioned the party members on what happened.  The mage told me what he'd done and actually expected me to be thankful.  In typical CP2020 fashion I whipped out my Manhunter Smartgun Pistol, put the barrel to his head and told him that he was WAY out of line taking my money.  The way my character saw it he was in the hospital and was healing up with non-magical means just fine... he didn't need magic though it did speed up the process.  The mage was shocked and said he'd give it back but that he was totally justified.  Now get this... the mage THREATENED me when he then went on to tell my character that the word would get out about how I'd treated him and I'd never get any magical support from anyone in Seattle again.  I told the mage that he was right, that I couldn't risk him telling other mages about the incident and then in true Cyberpunk fashion told the GM that I then pulled the trigger and blew a hole right through the mage's head.  After they both pulled their jaws up off the floor I got a lecture from the GM that Shadowrun is more team oriented than Cyberpunk.  I was only playing how I thought the game was meant to be played since I was equating it to CP2020 and Shadowrun IS a Cyberpunk-ish game.Anyway, the point is that previous game experience can shape how your players play.  Talk to him and if you have to, lecture him the same way I was lectured.  He may not realise he is doing anything wrong.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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