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<blockquote data-quote="Tar Markvar" data-source="post: 212355" data-attributes="member: 2859">Well, honestly, the scene did play out in a summary manner, but mostly because I was caught off-guard by the idea of them trying to take over the ship. The &quot;offending player&quot; co-GMs D&amp;D sometimes, so he knew the level of the captain and that the party could pretty easily kill him; I'm not accusing him of twinking or anything, but the thought crossed my mind. But the whole thing didn't occur to me for a number of reasons.1) The PCs each have ~80k credits. The ship, if bought new from someone who WANTS to sell it to you, would have cost over 5 MILLION credits. Keep in mind that this captain loves his ship and hates the PCs.2) The captain was nice enough to ferry them from adventure to adventure, even though he had no choice in them originally appearing on the ship.3) Killing the captain would alienate the crew, leaving five Dragonstar newbies stranded on a strange planet with a ship, but no one to fly/maintain it.When he announced his plans, it smacked of such twinkery that my first reaction was to try to stomp it. That's a bad reaction, but I knew in my heart that what he wanted to do was not only silly and nigh-impossible, it would also derail the adventure I put so much work into. I was suddenly improvising dwarven resistance bigwigs, trying to find a way to still tie the PCs into the adventure as written, and all that, and my brain short-circuited. He got pissy and got out the headphones, and I got offended and insecure. The rest of the night went as described above.I know that being more open-minded would have helped. The advice on playing things n more detail is good advice, and I'll definitely keep that in mind for the next time. The problem is that whenever someone starts going into &quot;Your feet clang on the latticed streel grating on the floor as you debate the options in your head etc.&quot; type of description, he writes it off as &quot;flavor text&quot; and metagames. One too many issues of KoDT, I suppose.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tar Markvar, post: 212355, member: 2859"] Well, honestly, the scene did play out in a summary manner, but mostly because I was caught off-guard by the idea of them trying to take over the ship. The "offending player" co-GMs D&D sometimes, so he knew the level of the captain and that the party could pretty easily kill him; I'm not accusing him of twinking or anything, but the thought crossed my mind. But the whole thing didn't occur to me for a number of reasons. 1) The PCs each have ~80k credits. The ship, if bought new from someone who WANTS to sell it to you, would have cost over 5 MILLION credits. Keep in mind that this captain loves his ship and hates the PCs. 2) The captain was nice enough to ferry them from adventure to adventure, even though he had no choice in them originally appearing on the ship. 3) Killing the captain would alienate the crew, leaving five Dragonstar newbies stranded on a strange planet with a ship, but no one to fly/maintain it. When he announced his plans, it smacked of such twinkery that my first reaction was to try to stomp it. That's a bad reaction, but I knew in my heart that what he wanted to do was not only silly and nigh-impossible, it would also derail the adventure I put so much work into. I was suddenly improvising dwarven resistance bigwigs, trying to find a way to still tie the PCs into the adventure as written, and all that, and my brain short-circuited. He got pissy and got out the headphones, and I got offended and insecure. The rest of the night went as described above. I know that being more open-minded would have helped. The advice on playing things n more detail is good advice, and I'll definitely keep that in mind for the next time. The problem is that whenever someone starts going into "Your feet clang on the latticed streel grating on the floor as you debate the options in your head etc." type of description, he writes it off as "flavor text" and metagames. One too many issues of KoDT, I suppose. [/QUOTE]

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