Re: [HoE] Using Folk Tales (was Templar Book Questions)

[Matthew Steflik <grifflik@stny.rr.com>]

Steve Long wrote (in response to me)

> << No, no no. Folk tales are GREAT source material,  just "within reason".
> >>
>
>     Much of the material I wrote for BACK EAST: THE SOUTH was based on North
> Carolina folk tales and ghost stories.  I see no reason why you couldn't use
> such things in HOE, perhaps with an appropriate "twist."
>
>

Sigh.  Of course you can use such things in HoE (with a "twist" of
modification) - not saying you couldn't or shouldn't (nice book BTW,
Steve).  Legends, tall tales and myths come to life is a major theme of
the Deadlands game, and I draw from them a lot in my HoE campaign.  My
disagreement was with using (specifically) the Paul Bunyan legend "as
is" - the size factor (IMHO) makes the idea seem silly.  I thought Grimm
was considering it by the way he phrased his ax discussion in an earlier
post.  But enough already.  Apparently this wasn't the case, so
misunderstandings all around (sorry I misunderstood your intentions
Grimm - they weren't clear at the time).

Matt Steflik
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