My finest idea to date

[JPL]

Working on the characters for a pulp game set in 1930s Shanghai.

So here's the idea... give one player his pregen character...the world's greatest escape artist.

About three hours into the adventure, the bad guys take a hostage, all the
heroes throw down their weapons and surrender.

The henchmen tie all the heroes up, and then the mastermind says, oh, right,
that one on the end is the escape artist.

Then they shoot him twice in the back of the head.

Pure roleplaying magic.

 

[Ranger REG]

Sounds like entrapment to me, assuming the one guy you all pick is an NPC.

 

[JPL]

Sounds like entrapment to me, assuming the one guy you all pick is an NPC.

[Edited my first post to clarify]

No, REG, the BEAUTY of it is that in a party featuring the world's greatest escape artist, everyone will know that eventually the character will get to go all Houdini all over the place.

And then...after three hours of not escaping from anything...you put it in front of him...you tease him with it...

BLAM! BLAM!

 

[Von Ether]

Metagaming!!!!

I love it.

It would be great if you take a player in secret and have him make up two characters. One for his long range play and one as the doomed Escape Artist.

Don't let anyone in on the two characters until not only does the Escape Artist dies, but the new character comes in to save everyone from the death trap.

 

[JPL]

Metagaming!!!!

I love it.

It would be great if you take a player in secret and have him make up two characters. One for his long range play and one as the doomed Escape Artist.

Don't let anyone in on the two characters until not only does the Escape Artist dies, but the new character comes in to save everyone from the death trap.

You're probably right...that would be a more civilized way to do it.

 

[Ranger REG]

I just feel sorry for the player who took the character. But if he's in on the scheme, then I understand.

 

[Hypersmurf]

No, REG, the BEAUTY of it is that in a party featuring the world's greatest escape artist, everyone will know that eventually the character will get to go all Houdini all over the place.

Watched Cube recently?

-Hyp.

 

[JPL]

I just feel sorry for the player who took the character. But if he's in on the scheme, then I understand.

Well, I'd give him an even cooler character to replace Dead Houdini.

A pirate with a monkey sidekick or something.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Watched Cube recently?

-Hyp.

Good to know I wasn't the only one who thought that.

 

[JPL]

Good to know I wasn't the only one who thought that.

Explain. I never saw it.