Quote:Actually, it's rather interesting that you say that.
Maybe he could keep Anakin from becoming such a twin, thereby saving the Universe....
Some backstory here. Beta had an adventure where a lot of "fictional" characters -- the X-Men, some Transformers, Darth Vader, a few others -- were either summoned or somehow given form in the "real" world. I'm not clear on this, as I wasn't a player in Beta, and I wasn't there, but at the end of the adventure these fictional characters sort of evaporated, and parts of their "essence" went into compatible people all over the world. A couple of these were Warriors -- Helen's character Panther got a massive boost in her psychic sensitivity from someone, I forget who, for example
Anyway, not long after that, we started up a new sub-campaign of Warriors World, which we called "Strikeforce". It wasn't a Warriors-level game with international focus, but a local-level team based in New Brunswick which hired itself out as contract security. I forget who the GM was, but John "Skitz" Freiler, co-creator of Arcanum, had decided that his character was some geeky kid who had received the essence of Darth Vader, had built himself a light saber, and was calling himself "Anakin". John later admitted that his intent was to make the character thoroughly dislikeable, such that the other team members would have a great deal of friction with him, causing him to quit the team and from there evolve into a supervillain for John's future use in the main campaign.
Well, it didn't work that way. The rest of the team had, between their perceptiveness and their players' meta-level knowledge, figured out that the kid was more or less who he said he was, and they worked out the best way, in their opinion, to keep him from going off the deep, Dark end:
They made him team leader, paid close attention to his orders and instructions, were very respectful when they disagreed, and pretty much never gave him anything to complain about. (We also figured it was a good place to put him, where everyone could see him. )
John went crazy. We weren't ostracizing his future Sith. We were, in fact, doing everything we could to keep him on the Bright side, without being slavishly submissive to his every whim. The subcampaign petered out long before John could do anything with Anakin other than be a respected team leader. I suppose by the fact that no Sith have yet showed up in the game world that our tactics worked.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.