>> - ok, so the howood is valuable and prices are good - but who actually wants it?  anyone in the subsector or is there some market in mind?  (I guess the bigger question here is why should the PCs (and the players)
>> care to beetle off into the boonies to harvest the stuff with all the explosive risk there is?!)

Oh! And don't worry about the logic of gathering a speculative cargo using explosives. PCs *love* any excuse to use explosives. They'll think it's going to be a breeze, because the trees will hardly be able to shoot back. Right? <evil grin> 

Exit's elevator and see couple of guys exiting target room that don't belong, they see us and toss granade which lands at my lady's(?)feet, which I at once punt kick back at them before dropping to floor yelling "GRANADE!".
(It turns out to be a smoke granade.)
Jump up and rush though smoke into the room where the window is opened. Running over and looking I see the guys climbing into the side of a van. (The room is on the 2nd floor.)
My lady(?) pulls out her own granade, pulls pin and toss it out the window has she leans back and and yells "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"

<BOOM>

The van manages to get away, highly damage and we find it later. Inside we find one of the body of one of he guys riddle with sharpnal.

What can I say, she likes her granades.


(Sorry, I just couldn't resist it.)

  

On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

Interestingly, one of my three lunch time players - all work colleagues - is a long standing member of an amateur dramatics group.  I've seen him several times on stage and he outshines the rest of the drama group hands down.  So we rather thought he'd be our lead *role* player rather *reported speech* player. Turns out not to be the case.


Not surprising, although the tendency seemed surprising to me as well. Until a realized that a good stage/film actor doesn't necessarily have the skill set needed for a good roleplayer. The actor has a script written by somebody else to work from and also gets to practice delivering his lines over and over, in a highly predictable environment. The roleplayer must not only create his own lines, he must do so on the fly and in response to a constantly-evolving situation.
 
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