Murphy's Role-Playing by Internet Message Board Laws

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Corollary 2: Just when you've written a convincing message detailing how the now inactive character is disposed of, the player will come back and bitch at you for forcing him out.

Corollary 1: After you spend a few hours trying to modify the text so that you get a coherent string of events from the garbled message of a player, he'll announce that you suck and quit the game.

The impossibility of slapping someone silly over the net is not recognized as a potential weakness that requires careful consideration, but is abused as if there were no tomorrow.

Neither are any of the other players.

The Game Master is never on ICQ.

Corollary 2: Every theory is different.

Corollary 1: Everyone has a theory.

Nobody knows whose fault it is that the story isn't moving.

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