[TML] Have your passive NPCs surprise your players!

[Richard Aiken]

On Nov 11, 2007 8:57 AM,  <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
> BTW, an encounter with him (in a far more civil fashion) several
> years later was the first time I'd truly encountered a rather common
> mindset among criminals, bullies, etc. He blamed *me* for getting him
> banned from the store he'd swiped the pen from. Couldn't possibly
> have been that he shouldn't have stolen it, it was my fault for
> filing the complaint that forced him to confess where he'd obtained
> it.

Right.  The criminal mind is endless in its delusional convolutions.
A female "friend" of mine (she now in jail on two felony forgery
warrants) was complaining about how physically hard her current job
was.  I replied (in a very unsympathetic tone): "Well, there are
easier jobs.  You could be a stripper, for example."

She said in horror: "Oh!  No!  I could never do that!"

I said: "Riiight.  You can justify to yourself stealing someone's
checkbook and using their checks.  But you have moral objections to
stripping."

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein