RE: [DL] New to the game....

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Welcome aboard!

Tips?  Hmmmm.  Use the dime novels as filler, but you got that.  Have a
metaplot of somesort of your own to add continuity to your game, but you got
that too.

Well, how about this:  Let the players help out with the mooks in your
campaign.  If it's a bunch of guys that aren't too terribly special to the
story, evil flunkies as it were, then the players can handle the math of how
much damage they did and which ones fall.  Can't do this all the time,
because then the players catch on that the ones you don't let them help with
are the important ones.  But once in a while it's nice to offload some of
the work.

And something that works well for my group:  let mooks go down easy.
Especially as the PCs get to be very experienced.  Everyone still loves a
good shoot 'em up with lots of targets, but don't get hung up on whether the
last desperado gets his last shot off.  Drop 'em with one or two player
bullets, don't even bother tracking mook ammo (how many times have you seen
them counting their shots on their fingers in the movies?), just have a
rollicking good dust up with enemy gang members dropping like flies.  Sheer
numbers will get you a couple of lucky shots to keep the players honest, but
they seem to like to be able to empty their smokewagons and have bodies
littered everywhere.

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net 
> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Tyler Childers
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:03 PM
> To: deadlands-digest@gamerz.net
> Subject: [DL] New to the game....
> 
> 
> My first exposure to DL was back in early 2002 when I picked 
> up a copy of 
> the Gurps:DL Weird West to round out my collection of Gurps 
> sourcebooks. I 
> fell in love with the setting from the start; a curious affection 
> considering that I had no paticular love of the Western genre 
> before getting 
> into it. What I fell in love with was the Huckster. I have 
> been gaming for 
> nearly 20 years now--took time off for marriage, and have long been a 
> devotee of magic (both real and fantasy) so the real world 
> analogies of 
> Hoyle and his Hucksters had instant appeal. I tried to run a 
> Gurps DL game 
> but it had no takers. This is kinda strange since I am now at 
> the foothills 
> of an ongoing Classic Deadlands campaign, and now everyone is 
> jumping on. I 
> have used the Big Sale goin on at Smith and Robards and have actively 
> auctioned on eBay to get a sizable collection of Classic 
> books going. Just 
> today I got the leatherbound revised book in the mail 
> (wouldn't even let one 
> of my posse touch it!!!) and was a very happy Marshall.
> Any tips for the new guy? My collection includes a passel of 
> the Dime Novels 
> which I plan on using for adventures plus a nice meta-plot 
> cooked up by 
> myself to fill in the gaps.
> As for the posse, we have a British Huckster, a Mexican 
> Priest (blessed), 
> and a Austrian Mad Scientist. One more player has yet to make 
> a character 
> and she is split between the Ugly as sin, short as a 
> dollarcake Nun (also 
> blessed) and a Taoist-Martial Arts exorsist (also 
> Blessed--with Enlightened 
> to boot). If she goes with the Taoist, I am goint to have to 
> call the the 
> Ferner Posse (since the other three did take that hinderance)
> 
> 
> Thanks for listening.
> 
> Tyler
> 
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