Re: [HoE] Derivativeness of HoE

[John Goff <johngoff@erols.com>]

Allan Seyberth wrote:

> (blam)
> >Anyhow, I personaly think that, used sparingly, references to things we all
> >know and love (or love to hate) are kinda neat.  As long as I'm kept up to my
> >neck in useful material (new spells & rules, a killer storyline, great flavor
> >material), I could almost care less about useless extra stuff.
>
> I think that we are all in agreement on this.
>
> And the occasional inside joke is great - especially if it's really subtle,
> like Varney's Flats from Deadlands.  But Hell on Earth has a lot more of
> the camp/inside jokes then Deadlands, and in my personal opinion, they at
> time detract from the grim, life as we know it has ended, there are
> hundreds of Deadlands in existance and my family got stomped by one of the
> four Horsemen of the Apocolypse feel.

Hmm, then Killer Clowns is probably going to really get to some of you guys...

John "Who's laughin' now?" Goff