Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1623374" data-attributes="member: 463">That'd be fine with me - I've done this in my 'Conan' game - assuming running-for-mountains was plausible for the PCs, which in Midnight it normally would be.  In Midnight I wouldn't like being told, in mid-campaign, "after being captured by the Shadow, your LG Sarcosan Freerider PC thought about it and decided that realistically the only sensible thing to do was to cooperate and join their forces..." - this might be justifiable as mind-altering magic but not as a "free PC choice".  An issue like this did come up recently in our Midnight game - our Midnight GM is brilliant, but I freaked out at some fairly mild railroading involving our PCs having decided to do something pre-session (enter a time-loop to help some elf ghosts so they'd stop killing people, knowing we'd lose our memories while doing so), and the session thus starting with us having IC no memory of our decision, and OOC no knowledge of it - my problem was that I didn't think my PC would have made that decision in the first place, and this caused big problems. It would have been a brilliant short story, as a game session, dealing with a fragile player-ego (mine), it had major flaws IMO that required lots of patience and work by the (wonderful) GM to rectify.</blockquote>