I think the only way around this is to make the events totally roleplaying so that
gm's controlling npc's can always have their invulnerability flag on. have the events
have nothing to do with pc's killing npc's, make it a puzzle or a riddle to find a tool
that would help one gm controlled npc kill another gm controlled npc.

At 03:04 PM 6/6/00 -0600, you wrote:

>Oh I totally agree. I don't think the events start out as stupid. I think
>the actions of the 40+'s that come in and destroy an event clearly far below
>their level make them stupid. I would have thought that Verant would have
>found a way around this by now. I can't imagine that the guides/gms don't
>complain about it every time they run one.
>
>I think the problem is the players. I just think the gm's need to be given
>a tool to allow them to more easily prevent the players from causing
>problems.
>One of the events I was at was clearly intended to provide quite a challenge
>for 20 or more characters of 15th level or so. However two 40+ characters
>came in and killed 90% of the event npc's. I say 90% because some might
>have escaped their wrath, though I personally didn't see any.
>
> Kit