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Re: [HoE] Sneaky Automatons



In a message dated 9/7/98 8:56:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, darley@cmc.net
writes:

<< My take on this is that it's not so much the tech that makes it western,
 it's more the themes, attitudes of people and they style of the world.  >>

I quite agree. I've always felt that at heart ALL post-apocalyptic games
were really westerns. You tend to have desolate, desert-like settings,
small towns with large distances between each other, and small
groups of heroes against the forces of evil. Sure sounds like a
western to me.

Andrew Ross