Re: [DL] More Newbie Questions

["William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Stephen Esdale" <sesdale@cable.redden.on.ca>
>Thanks everyone who responded to my previous post - the more I think about
>it, the more I will insist on the cards and the chips.  From what I read,
>they seem to work very well in the game.
>
>Here are some more questions.
>
>1. The Quick and the Dead - I have a copy of the Marshals Handbook (bought
>with my 1st edition rulebook which adds to my frustration).  Is the Q&D the
>first edition of the Marshals Handbook or was it something else.  If it had
>additional info in it, has any other sourcebook reprinted this info since
>Q&D seems to be out of print.

The Q&D is mostly setting setting information.  I have 1st ed rules and Q&D, 
intheory they were replaced by the Players book and the Marshalls book.  I 
flipped through the marshals book, it seemed to me that Q&D had more setting 
info than the marshal's book.  If you have 1st ed rules and 2nd ed Marshalls 
book, you might be shy a couple of rules, like the showdown rules for 
gunfights, you'll probably need the 2nd ed players book eventually, but you 
can probably live w/out the Q&D

>2. On Pinnacle's On-Line Store, the listing for Texarcana says it "presents
>and expands up the rules for martial arts... found in our popular boxed
>sets".  Are the rules reprinted there or do I need the boxed sets. - I want
>the rules but have chosen to buy the boxed sets and regional sourcebooks
>last (focusing on more rules oriented books first).
>

The Great Maze has Martial Arts rules, the City o' Gloom had Metal mage and 
Augmentation (think steam punk 6million dollar man) rules, and I think river 
o' blood has Voodoo (I don't have that last one).  The rules in Hexarcane 
are more up to date and a bit better balanced; the martial arts rules 
changed quite a bit, the metal mage rules in Hexarcana I think are mostly 
the same, there are I think a couple more hexes in hexarcana.  I don't know 
the voodoo differences since I don't have the original set of rules.
I would say that you don't need the boxed sets unless you want the setting 
info.

>Thanks!
>
>Stephen Esdale (sesdale@cable.redden.on.ca)
>
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