RE: [DL] Campaign Details

[Jesse Burneko <jburneko@yahoo.com>]

See...  This is what I'm talking about.  Of course a
preacher's bible would be a perfectly logical place to
look, especially in 1877.  But it's something I would
NEVER think of during my planing.

However, once I told them that good old town hall
burned down last year or that the records simply
weren't there one of my players would pipe up
(probably my girlfriend's sister; she's exceptionally
good at this) and say, "Is there a preacher in town?"

And I'd squint my eyes and say, "Yeah, why?"

And she'd say, "Because he probably records such
things in his bible."

And I'd go, "D'oh!" And if I didn't want them to have
that information yet or at all I'd have to make up
some silly excuse on the fly why he didn't have it. 

I have to stop running mysterys.  My group is just way
too clever and way more knowledgable than I am.

Jesse


--- Marguerite Frey <natasha_corey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Jeff Yates <jyates@poboxes.com> wrote:
> > Old west public records were not as useful as the
> > posse might like.  ...  That, and
> > is birth certificate something kept in the town
> > hall, or would the local
> > doctor, or even the parents, keep that in the
> > 1870's?
> 
> In our games, it's been the preacher's bible that
> has
> the birth and death records much more often than
> there
> are any town government records.  Especially in
> really
> small towns, the midwife or the preacher would keep
> track of the baptisms and burials of people either
> in
> the back of their bible or in some sort of prayer
> log
> / personal journal.  That's a good way to make sure
> the clue is available if it's essential, but in a
> place the posse won't usually look.
> 
> Marguerite of EMGB, otherwise known as Maggie Jensen
> 
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