Re: [HoE] How to get a posse together?

[Rich <toadpooka@usa.net>]

Tom Henderson wrote:
> 
> I am getting ready to try my hand at marshaling and I was wondering what
> other people have used as reasons to put parties togehter? 

Here's a fun one I did for my last HoE session:
The characters are all residents in a survivor community, but they don't know each other
necessarily.  If someone has a drifter or loner-type character, fine; they're just spending the
night in town.  It's a policy of this town that, in times of distress, a lottery is drawn of
everyone in the town.  If your name is picked, you're part of teh group that has to go out.  One
day, there's trouble, and guess whose names HAPPEN to be picked out of the pot?  After a few
incidents, the group will have been together long enough to stick it out.

-- 
And so ends the case I call "The Case Of The Guy Who Was So Stressed-Out About His Lost Keys That He
Eventually Had A Heart Attack, And It Turned Out They Were In The Sofa The Whole Time.

Richard A. Ranallo,
The Man They Couldn't Hang