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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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