h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

GL, this looks really good, assuming you can trust all the players to abide by the honor system. How many characters do you have going here?

Anyway, what I stopped by to mention was an idea for stealing things on H2G2. It may not work, but at least I thought I'd bring it up. Say character A wanted to steal a knife from character B's pocket. Character A goes to her own personal thread and tells the GM that she wishes to steal chracter B's knife. The GM decides, based on what he knows about both characters A and B whether or not A is skillful enough to pull it off, or if B would notice the knife being listed. Then the GM notifies chracter B in HIS personal thread that the knife is missing, but not who took the knife. Then, later when character B reaches a point in the game where the knife would be useful he can post in the main thread that he searches his pockets and is unable to find the knife.

That sounds like a good way to do things to me.

G7

Now if we can just get GL to read this thread...

Maybe if we jump up and down to attract his attention?

*begins jumping and waving*

G7

*Shouts really loud*

*stops jumping as her legs are now tired*

GL! Are you listening?

Arl, care for a ?

G7

Oh yes, please. *sips *

I sent Garius an eMail about this thread. He's usually offline on Wednesdays, so I expect him to reply some time tomorrow.

Hello, hello. I was away yesterday (since it was Wednesday), so I didn't see this thread.

Arl, I think that your idea for stealing is a good one! There is one character playing who has a special ability of "pickpocketting", so that character can simply say to you:
Special Ability: pickpocketting
and you must then reveal what you are carrying. Of course, since you never read that you will be completely unprepared when it happens.

But in general, I think your method would work for people who don't have that special ability.

I guess the problem with stealing that I saw, was that the characters may not know what things the other characters have. In a live event, you could rifle someone's sea-chest (if you could get into it), or search someone's room, but here those things might be difficult. I suppose you could still do those things, using the same procedure that you suggested for stealing. Hmmmmm. Maybe I should update the rules page to include those possibilities. I'll announce in the "announcements" thread when I have done the update.

Thanks for the idea!

Cool, yeah, that'll work.

Congrats, Arl. That's two ideas.

G7

Uh-oh, I'd better suppress my genius before I start getting full of myself