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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 5060586" data-attributes="member: 4892">I don't have all the old character sheets, but I can offer up my anecdotal memories. Player savvy had much more bearing on a character's survivability than the character's stats.While I was running my 1E campaign at the LFGS I allowed, per the owner's request, anyone to join my game. One person that I wouldn't normally tolerate was a rampant cheater. He constantly showed up with stat arrays full of 18's. My other regular players asked why I kept allowing him to cheat. I told them that while I appreciated the ability to trust them not to cheat, this person did so due to a lack of common sense. This lacking proved itself out over many months and repeated character deaths.[sblock]The ones I remember are:1. Taking off his armor and sneaking off by himself in the dark of night to scout groups of orcs involved in a siege of the keep the characters were protecting. His character was an elf and very successfully made his rounds to see spread out groups of half a dozen orcs each camping fireside. That was until he decided to attack a group of orcs all by himself. The first of the 6 ors was very surprised and ended up very dead. The other 5 5 smiled wickedly at the unarmored lone elf before they hacked him to pieces.2. While the group stayed at a roadside inn, attacks started to occur during the night leaving patrons of the inn dead, drained of all their blood. After getting bored searching, he decided his character would go sleep alone away from the rest of the party and the patrons who had all holed up together.3. After the Driz'zt phenomenon began, he really wanted to play a drow. He was even able to convince me of a good disguise so he could hide his true race from the rest of the party. Another player had written a strong hatred of drow into his character's background story. This player's character confronted the disguised drow when he pulled out a drow crossbow. The drow player lied, saying that he had found it. The drow-hating character calmed down and was ready to continue, apologizing for her outburst. Then, for reasons still unbeknownst to all involved, he decided to remove his disguise in front of the drow-hater. She became incensed and cast sleep?!? Everybody laughed until the drow player rolled a 99 on his 90% chance to resist sleep. The elven wizard then proceeded to leap upon the sleeping drow, intending to kill him before the party pulled her off him and calmed her down.I never had to do anything to get him killed or in trouble. Not only was I impartial to the cheater, I went along with some of his craziness.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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