"Things Scoundrels Do: False Pretenses" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	14 Apr 2017 7:40 a.m. PST
"False pretenses" seems to cover a lot of different areas. obtaining credit through deceit impersonating a public official defraud someone and get their possessions bogus checks impersonating a veteran (?) "the confidence game" wearing a medal fraudulently fraudulent railway passes three-card monte profiting from the use of a false academic degree sleight of hand fortune telling claiming goods through a false receipt
79thPA	14 Apr 2017 8:53 a.m. PST
You seem to be posting a lot of non-gaming stuff on the gaming boards lately. Are you okay?
The Virtual Armchair General	14 Apr 2017 10:25 a.m. PST
Oh, this is "gaming stuff," alright, IF you write scenarios and develop characters. This particular point might seem to have little relevance to WW II battle games where more Tiger II's show up than were built, etc, but for some of us, it's thought provoking. It's Bill's house, so can't he say pretty much what's on his mind? Besides, he gave me reason in a PM that suggests he has personal reasons to consider such things. So, how's about them Dodgers? TVAG
79thPA	14 Apr 2017 11:07 a.m. PST
Using that logic, anything and everything is gaming related, including the Dodgers.
Weasel	14 Apr 2017 11:42 a.m. PST
I like the crossposting to pulp gaming, just to add to the mystery.
Editor in Chief Bill	14 Apr 2017 11:54 a.m. PST
You seem to be posting a lot of non-gaming stuff on the gaming boards lately. Oh, come on! How can you have a good Pulp adventure without a scoundrel in the mix somewhere? Are you okay? I'm just fine. I was reading the sentences of some of the people incarcerated at the same time as my Uncle Cecil in 1926. I have a colorful family.
Editor in Chief Bill	14 Apr 2017 12:06 p.m. PST
Using that logic, anything and everything is gaming related, including the Dodgers. Funny you should mention that! My Uncle Cecil is listed on the recordbooks of the Anamosa State Penitentiary and another prison, but I don't know when he was at each. He got out in 1932. I figure there's a good chance he knew Snapper Hortmann. Hortmann was in Anamosa for murdering his girlfriend (some said he was drunk, others said he wasn't). Hortman loved baseball, was a huge Cubs fan, and organized play at the prison – the prison team was eventually named the Snappers, after him! In 1932, the Cubs were in the World Series. As an act of kindness to an elderly Snapper Hortmann, the warden arranged for Snapper to go with him to Game 3 of the series! Well, word leaked out about the favor for a murderer, it became an election issue, and the incumbent governor lost. Full story here: link
goragrad	15 Apr 2017 10:21 p.m. PST
As noted in a pulp game having a backstory for the villains adds depth to the scenario.
Ottoathome	15 Apr 2017 11:22 p.m. PST
This is pure dawghouse bait. Not biting.