[HoE] Real Life (TM) vs. Games

["Eric Young" <ecyoung@mediaone.net>]

>That's sort of my point.  Not that I've been in any nasty situations, but
>seeing it on tv and then seeing it "real" might make it not seems as
shocking.
>Sort of the been there, done that syndrome.  I like to watch the Life in
the
>ER show on the learning channel,  I've seen one of the doctors hold up a
chunk
>of meat "here's his spleen"  and seen people up to their armpits in
someone's
>guts.  Now I think that if I would see it for real, it wouldn't be so
>horrifying.  And since I've been gaming for a while, and thought of so
many
>possible terrors and ways to react to them, I don't know if I'd freeze if
I
>saw a walkin' dead chewing on someone.  that's what I want to see, a movie
>with gamers(gamers with a clue, naturally) as the heroes.
>
>velkyn


Trust me, no matter how "real" they make it on TV (even those uncensored
documentaries) it's still not the same. Can you smell someone who's been
eviscerated on TV? Smell is a major factor. I've come up on scenes and
before I could even see it I could smell the blood and I just knew it was
going to be a bad one.

I won't even go into what it takes to shoot another person (or even harder
to stick a knife in them). That's what made many of the gunfighters in the
old west. It's not that they were that much faster than their opponent,
it's just that they had what it takes to kill without hesitation.

If you really want to make Deadlands realistic have your players make a
guts roll before they can fire...

Eric