Re: [DL] Striking Doomtown

[Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 05:10:39PM -0800, Jesse Burneko said:
> I'm curious.  Why exactly do you think Doomtown should
> be striken from the record?  Is it just because the
> CCG failed or are there other reasons?

 Nah, I was thinking it before the CCG went down... I just think that while
 Doomtown was a decent CCG, and it served as a fine introduction to the
 Deadlands universe, by the nature of its format I just don't find the setting
 to be compatible with the RPG world.  It's all too tidy and corny - eight
 or nine (or whatever the number is) comparably-powered factions representing
 each of the major Interesting Reasons Why You Should Play Deadlands - the
 magicians, the scientists, the blessed, the Injuns, the North, the South,
 the banditos and the law (the latter two being of more generic Western
 appeal).

 It just leaves me with a feeling of being too unnatural - and I think that if
 I were a player character and I got to the outskirts of Gomorra, it'd seem
 like I were crossing a border of some sort into a similar but definitely
 different universe, where the rules just aren't the same.  Gomorra is an
 anomaly that doesn't quite fit in.

 In my opinion, of course.  If other folks fit it into their campaigns and
 enjoy it, then, of course, more power to them.  But for me, I'll just leave
 the Ghost as administrator of the Western Bureau (uhh, or whatever the right
 name is).  Then again, if Ghost Busters is indeed as good as Deadlander says
 (I haven't read it yet) I might find a way to work it in by changing the
 background a bit.

 Oh yeah, come to think of it, part of my dislike for it is just irrational,
 and caused by the fact that it gives away too much of the universe.  I've
 been going for as much player ignorance as possible in my campaign, and the
 fact that anybody who plays Doomtown knows exactly who the Ghost is (for
 example) means I've one less excellent twist to throw into my campaign.  Oh,
 the gnashing of teeth when I heard the Cult of Lost Angels were going to
 replace the Flock (I'd stopped playing Doomtown before then) and presumably
 everybody would know their little secret too.  Although from what I gather
 from subtly-phrased queries of the remaining Doomtown players around here,
 they never got around to spilling the beans on that one before the game died.
 Also, it wouldn't be so much of a problem if all games were set in the
 Current Official Time, but we've only gotten as far as December 1875 yet.

 Wishkah

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