Re: [HoE] Hell On Earth[Rant/Rave/Review]

[Graveyard Greg <graveyard_greg@yahoo.com>]

---Damon Harper <nomad74@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> 
>    Well, like some others, I got my copy... and now your gonna sit 
> there- like you made *me* do- and hear me bitch, moan, and gush over
it!   
> :)
> 

Oh no! Not the GUSH!

>    Con:
>     Oooh-kay, here we go.
>     First off, I was disappointed that it actually contained less 
> *background* stuff than the orginal Deadlands.   Sure, it's Post
Apoc- but is it "Mad Max" Post-Apoc, 
> or "The Stand" Post-Apoc? 

Mad Max, because of the bombs. The Stand was flu-ravaged. ;)

 
>      Secondly, although it's supposed to be a game in it's own right, 
> what I read looked like a "future of DL" supplement.  I don't know, 
> maybe they shoulda just put the core rules in one book, the put out
The 
> Weird West stuff, then the Wasted Stuff.

That would have been cool, but it might not have been as successful.
One of the reasons why Deadlands worked out so well was because it was
a Spaghetti Western RPG...with MEAT (you just *knew* I was going to
add that, yes?)! At the time there was nothing else like it.  


>    I have to also give a couple of opinions on archetypes:
>     Cool Archetype Award:  Templars.  I can't pin it to any one
thing, 
> but the whole concept just kicks ass.

Kicks ass...for the Lord? (oh, great...now I'm quoting "Dead Alive"--a
movie worthy of the Evil Dead movies...)


>     Not-so-Cool Archetype Award:  Doomsayers.   At the risk of
getting 
> flamed- "What the...?"   I guess it's me, but I don't see the appeal
of 
> playing a cult member.  *Mutant*?  Yes.  Cult member? 

To you, they're a cult...To the Doomsayers? They are the next step in
evolution. :)

 
>     Overall, I think I would enjoy HoE MUCH more if PEG would have a) 
> Released The Wasted West at the SAME TIME as HoE- 

I can't argue with that, but Shane can only do so much...Patience,
young Templar.


> At any rate, I think I've throughly vented now(whew).  Opinions?  
> Objections?  Fritos?

Nah, Doritos...with Dr Pepper to wash it all down.


Graveyard "Dr Pepper drinker" Greg
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