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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 7840905" data-attributes="member: 6999616">I've seen a GM tactic that was intended to avoid annoying the players in a bait and switch. It didn't work at all. The idea was that characters from the near future of our world would be transferred into a fantasy world, but the players weren't allowed to know about this in advance. The theory was that people with "diverse skills" would be recruited for a job at CERN, but there was never a proper explanation of what they were being recruited for, or that this meant that each character's own skills (this was Hero System, in non-superheroic mode) needed to be diverse. After having a couple of character designs rejected I gave up and did not play. The campaign did start, but rapidly failed.</blockquote>