RE: [DL] any idea what's going on.. [China]

[Wes Anderson <wes.anderson@lucasfilm.com>]

This topic has been covered here before.

And the biggest thing that has always been pointed out, is the game is the
Weird WEST!

Not Weird Europe, Not Weird China. The game has and is supposed to represent
the American West, thus the gunslingers etc. So I think its unlikely we will
ever see sourcebooks for every continent.

Now, this does not prevent you from using the Deadlands Classic or D20 rules
to create something for these regions, but resources can only go so far, and
I would rather get high quality stuff about the actual setting for the game,
rather than low quality stuff that covers everything.

You should make up what's going on in China, or Europe. Hell post what you
create here, or on a web site and then anyone that needs that info could use
it.

Wes
PS. I took the List Serve Rules clarifications etc. website down because it
seems no one here really used or needed it any more. Let me know if I was
wrong and that people are still using it.

Wes




-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Finster [mailto:markus.finster@chello.at]
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 4:51 AM
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] any idea what's going on.. [China]


At 06:45 16.06.2002, captrose@magicaldesk.com wrote:
 >in China during the Weird West?

I had a Chinese Mad Scientist in my posse, so I did a little digging.

China went thorugh some turmoil in the 2nd half of the 19th century:
1850-1864 there was the Taiping Rebellion, which cost about 20 Million 
lives. The Rebels controlled about a third of the country, claiming to 
found a heavenly kingdom on earth.
You can find a short info about it in the Great Maze Sourcebook, in the 
Marshal's section.
In a nutshell, the leader Hong Xiuquan combined Confucianism with 
Protestantism and formulated an eclectic ideology.
He quickly gathered thousands of followers and formed an army. 1851 he 
launched an uprising.
Hong proclaimed the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (Taiping Tianguo, or 
Taiping for short) with himself as king. The new order was to reconstitute 
a legendary ancient state in which the peasantry owned and tilled the land 
in common; slavery, concubinage, arranged marriage, opium smoking, 
footbinding, judicial torture, and the worship of idols were all to be 
eliminated.
The Imperial Army lost most of the battles in the beginning, until France 
and Britain decided that they would rather deal with a weak, bureacratic 
China than with an independent Taiping.

Then, 1863, some Muslim tribes rebelled against their Manchu's, thus 
starting the Muslim Rebellion which lasted until 1877. Russia send troops 
into the region to protect his border as well.

Then, of course, The Second Opium War, 1856-1860.
And there were a lot of "smaller" incidents, like the Tientsin Massacre in 
1870: a chinese crowd massacred the nuns and priests of a Roman Catholic 
convent.

You can finde more information on the above there:
http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/cat/china/findex.htm

Hope that helps,
Markus




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