I, personally, have been going about T2k all wrong.

[pmulcahy11b]

Lack of foresight. Got convinced that we would be protected by the Nigerian army.

I thought it was more Nigerian "Army" rather than Nigerian Army.

[LT. Ox]

Army in any other place is [

QUOTE=pmulcahy11b;66334]I thought it was more Nigerian "Army" rather than Nigerian Army.[/QUOTE]
If it is anything like the wonderfully trained and equipped Angolan group that passed for an Army in the seventies then you have my condolences. Oh did I forget motivated as well.
The only problem is just what the motivation was or is hmmmm 1970-71 damn that is getting on fifty years ago, and to all you smart people out there we had smokeless powder then and primers and even some automatic weapons

[Legbreaker]

1970-71 damn that is getting on fifty years ago, and to all you smart people out there we had smokeless powder then and primers and even some automatic weapons

Now you're making me feel old!

[LT. Ox]

Tis on you

Now you're making me feel old!

FORTY-TWO !!!!
Laugh your still fighting age my man, besides anyone who hides behind a MG does not get old till he is at least fifty.
Says the sneaky scout ranger that uses one oh fives as fishing lures

[Legbreaker]

HIDES!
Machinegunners are priority targets for the bad guys! Especially the way I used it...

[firewalker]

hmmmm.

I can't say "I" persnaly would be intrested in this sort of conspiracy flaverd campain (well for not for t:2 proper)....but i am intruged by the alternit interpratation.

[unkated]

That said, I worry that that sort of mysterious mastermind archtype playing such a central role in the direction of the campaign might seriously hinder PC agency, making the players feel like pawns with little understanding or control over their own IG destiny.

This seems to come up a lot in the show - 'Red's only telling us this becasue he wants us to do x!'

Red is actually not quite the center of the show (though he is teh most interesting element); it's the FBI agent he wanted to get close to (which is why he gave himself up in the first place).

I think that you could run a successful, long-lived campaign based around a central NPC, but it would definitely be a balancing act. Take away too much player agency, and Red might wake up with a frag underneath his cot.

Red would carefully gauged that the PCs were at that point and not been in the cot - though no one would have seen him get out of it.

It is an amusing show.

Uncle Ted

[Silent Hunter UK]

Red is actually not quite the center of the show (though he is teh most interesting element); it's the FBI agent he wanted to get close to (which is why he gave himself up in the first place).

Yes, one Elizabeth Keen, who ends up acquiring several levels of Small Arms (Rifle) during the course of the show.