Re: [DL] Experience in DL and D20 comment

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

>  Well, in Shadowrun metahumans have to put up with a certain amount of
>  racism as well.  If you WANTED to do Deadlands as a fantasy type setting,
>  you could have Orks and Trolls taking the place of blacks (like, they 
>were
>  the slaves, and have only just been liberated and are still mistrusted 
>and
>  looked down upon).  Dwarfs could be shunned from most society and 
>expected
>  to be mad scientists' assistants or something, and elves could be 
>something
>  like the Freemasons.
>
>  I think balance could be brought in by role-playing factors, rather than
>  purely numbers-based ones.  Like in Shadowrun (where there's very little
>  in terms of numbers-based advantages to playing a human, but plenty of
>  social reasons).  Well, okay, and numbers-based ones.  Being a meta could
>  be an Edge in Deadlands?
>

I saw a d20 cowboys and dragons write up on the web once.  Magic etc. had 
always been around, technology had advanced to revolvers and lever action 
rifles.  A new continent had been colonized, the natives were elves, the 
southern area had captured and enslaved 1/2ling.

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