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Message: <blockquote data-quote="heapswife" data-source="post: 1655588" data-attributes="member: 20987">(This is Heap, on the wife's account.  Don't want to mess with her login settings.)Anyway, for Kaleon ... I think you're missing the train of thought, here.  It isn't a shotgun with three barrels.  While I'd think that slightly odd (and uncalled for in the game we're running), that's not what's being discussed.  It isn't a "gun" at all.  It's a stick.  Like a broom handle or a length of rebar or pipe.  With shotgun shells at one end.  And you swing it, like a baseball bat.  Or you jab it, like a spear.  I'm not sure, I never quite got that part of it. At any rate, it isn't a firearm at all.  It's a melee weapon.  You swing the stick, hit the guy with the business end of the shotgun shells, they go 'boom'.All in all, you're right.   WHATEVER it is, it is very cinematic.  Unfortunately, this isn't "MacGuyver Swarzenegger, First Blood Part III" or any actiony-movie like that.  If you were watching this game on TV it would be X-Files.  When's the last time Mulder hit The Smoking Man in the face with a bunch of shotgun shells on a stick?The bigger issue is the disconnect between the style of the game being RUN and the style of the game being PLAYED (at least on his end).  If we were RUNNING a high-octane muscle-thriller action game, then SURE ... grab some Craft (Mechanical) and Demolitions and let's build us a thermonuclear device that looks and acts like a 1974 El Camino and drive it into the penthouse parking unit of The Evil Doctor Burnswhenipee.As for psych evals.  *shrug*  At this point it's wait and see.  We're starting a new semester soon.  We're going to have multiple games to choose from.  I think this guy was a little burnt out on the Skills 'n Research style games as the OTHER DM was running a Forgotten Realms game that was about 80% hanging out in dusty libraries researching ancient magical superweapons we found, trying desperately to find the ON button.Hopefully SOMEBODY will be running a Hack'n'Slash game for him to get his aggression out on.  I very well may be running a d20 Future/Star*Drive military game ... against the Externals.Should be enough death and destruction in that for anybody.  Thinking "Space: Above and Beyond", here.--fje</blockquote>

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