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Jason Farlander
post Apr 13 2004, 04:30 AM
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Have you ever looked at a character sheet and wondered to yourself "Why would anyone hire this person for anything important?" or "Why would any reasonably competent Shadowrunning team accept this person into their group?" I know I have. The times that I've asked my players to explain why they are desireable employees it has seemed that the question really caught the players off guard - as if they had never really considered why their character should be hired beyond a simple "thats how the game works."

To help prevent this from occurring, I'm considering making it a requirement that, in addition to a character background, players submit to me two paragraphs: one explaining why a prospective employer should hire the character, and the other explaining why an existing shadowrunning team should allow the character to join. I would expect those paragraphs to be written in-character -- to force the players to consider, aside from purely metagame thinking, why someone should hire the character they've created.

I know some people here conduct in-character interviews of new team additions, but does anyone require that the players actively consider their hireability? Are there any real drawbacks to such a requirement?
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- Jason Farlander   Character Marketability   Apr 13 2004, 04:30 AM
- - Voran   Hmm. Tough one. How much leeway are you letting ...   Apr 13 2004, 05:53 AM
- - Hida Tsuzua   I've thought about doing a similar thing. My ...   Apr 13 2004, 06:05 AM
- - tisoz   QUOTE Have you ever looked at a character sheet an...   Apr 13 2004, 06:32 AM
- - Cain   Honestly, shadowrunning is about who you know, and...   Apr 13 2004, 06:45 AM
- - Anymage   I tend to keep hireability in mind as part of char...   Apr 13 2004, 06:56 AM
- - Shockwave_IIc   Actually this is a problem that im having with a c...   Apr 13 2004, 07:13 AM
- - Voran   Heh, oddly enough it got me thinking about MMORPG ...   Apr 13 2004, 07:17 AM
- - Siege   The other catch -- this is my buddy (personal hook...   Apr 13 2004, 07:19 AM
- - The White Dwarf   Yes, its something we consider. Ive not yet inclu...   Apr 13 2004, 08:21 AM
- - TinkerGnome   I second Cain's "You have to know somebod...   Apr 13 2004, 12:43 PM
- - mfb   i've never played a team game--all the runs i...   Apr 13 2004, 03:30 PM
- - Talia Invierno   Perhaps an argument for the characters to some ext...   Apr 13 2004, 04:23 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Thanks for the feedback thus far... it seems that...   Apr 13 2004, 04:37 PM
- - Sphynx   ** Looks at Tisoz and crosses fingers that he...   Apr 13 2004, 05:24 PM
- - Moonstone Spider   Heh. I recall a game a few weeks back I was in. ...   Apr 13 2004, 05:53 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Moonstone, sounds like you guys let him off light....   Apr 13 2004, 06:02 PM
- - Cain   QUOTE (Jason Farlander) As for A) - well, I like t...   Apr 13 2004, 08:43 PM
- - Jason Farlander   QUOTE (Cain) Here's the thing... [some stuff]...   Apr 13 2004, 09:08 PM
- - Moonstone Spider   QUOTE (TinkerGnome) Moonstone, sounds like you guy...   Apr 13 2004, 09:55 PM
- - TinkerGnome   QUOTE (Moonstone Spider) We let him off light, as ...   Apr 13 2004, 10:17 PM
- - LaughingTiger   Hmm.. that crosses uncomfortably into real life fo...   Apr 13 2004, 11:55 PM
- - OurTeam   Hmmm. Interesting views above. So the Samurai who ...   Apr 14 2004, 12:14 AM
- - Cain   QUOTE At the same time, as long as the "twink...   Apr 14 2004, 12:23 AM
- - Talia Invierno   Uncomfortably close into real life areas indeed: f...   Apr 14 2004, 12:35 AM
- - Mr. Woodchuck   The other way to a approach this is to give the te...   Apr 14 2004, 12:56 AM
- - theartthief   Mr. Woodchuck: QUOTE The other way to a approach ...   Apr 15 2004, 03:37 AM
- - KillaJ   QUOTE Hermetic mage pimp with prostitute ring Does...   Apr 15 2004, 06:29 AM
- - Sphynx   Heh, a prostitute ring, I bet he gets raving revie...   Apr 15 2004, 08:31 AM
- - toturi   I am not arguing that Contacts are not important b...   Apr 15 2004, 10:38 AM
- - Cain   Not really. I've lost jobs to the boss's ...   Apr 16 2004, 01:00 AM
- - toturi   QUOTE (Cain) Not really. I've lost jobs to th...   Apr 16 2004, 10:33 AM
- - Austere Emancipator   Do you really want to use a movie as fucked up as ...   Apr 16 2004, 10:41 AM
- - toturi   QUOTE (Austere Emancipator) Do you really want to ...   Apr 16 2004, 10:55 AM
- - Anymage   QUOTE (Cain) Not really. I've lost jobs to th...   Apr 16 2004, 11:04 AM
- - TinkerGnome   Does it, though? Take two people, A and B (I love...   Apr 16 2004, 01:33 PM


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