{"id":28,"date":"2010-03-07T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/07\/acquiring-items\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T20:57:35","slug":"acquiring-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2010\/03\/07\/acquiring-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquiring Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Now, all this said, as a GM, you have free reign on your game to run it as you wish. You may think, based upon what I have said regarding my own GMing style, that as a GM, I am a bully. But &#8230; if you give your players whatever they want, without the consequinces or challenges that accompany such power, then inevitably there will come a &#8216;cold war&#8217;. After all, if the guys on either side of you are getting everything they want, merely by saying they are going out and getting it. Then why wouldn&#8217;t you do the same? Thus, your initial question was what we do to stop such situations. I make my players sweat and bleed for it, and if they truly want it, they will likely eventually get it. Then, they will learn what else it does&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/rsc\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"middle\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">-ChiefsFan, Amber Diceless RPG Yahoo!Group<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was part of a larger discussion of how to handle powerful (i.e., point-worthy) items in Amber, and how to keep it from getting out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The author of this particular post seems willing to call himself a bully for making the players work for stuff, but&#8230; I don&#8217;t really see it.  As far as I&#8217;m concerned, you should only <i>not<\/i> have to work for Items and Creatures you purchase at game start.  This isn&#8217;t because I&#8217;m worried at all about some kind of cold war &#8211; heaven knows Amberites are perfectly capable of manufacturing cold wars amongst themselves without ever bringing any more items in than what they already have &#8211; but because <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/index.php\/esgames\/2010\/03\/24\/the-tone-of-technology\">as I&#8217;ve already said<\/a>, tools like that have <i>costs<\/i>.  One of those is the process of acquisition; without working for it, do you really value it appropriately?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying such things should be impossible to do, particularly if it&#8217;s something needed for plot.  But I don&#8217;t care to run a game where everyone is The Golden Child Merlin, To Whom The Universe Hands Everything He Really Needs.  (\/snark)<\/p>\n<p>Besides, having everything handed to you gets kind of boring after a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, all this said, as a GM, you have free reign on your game to run it as you wish. You may think, based upon what I have said regarding my own GMing style, that as a GM, I am a bully. But the if you give your players whatever they want, without the con&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory","tag-amber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}