RE:[HoE] Re: "meta-plot" adventures

[Ralph Dula <rdula@ezonline.com>]

On the subject of the Torg-ish nature of the response form idea John Goff
wrote:

>...the TORG guy in the office (none other
>than Shane) didn't come up with the idea--although he did immediately go
>"They used to do that in TORG."
>
>It's also one of the reasons we're doing the solution somewhat different
>(i.e. no majority vote). His recollection was that the players most wanted
>to be the one to have their group's story published. 

If you're going with the response form deal like Torg did, why not also
steal the Herald messages page from Infiniverse magazine?  West End Games
used to devote a section in each issue of their Torg magazine/newletter to
short messages from each gaming group that sent in their response form,
detailing what was going on in their campaign and their take on the
adventures that had response forms.  It gave us Torg players a chance to
see how others did in their adventuring, and ideas to use when our campaign
strayed from the "official" timeline.  After the voting is done for the
first adventure with a response form (Ghost Busters, if I remember
correctly) why not print a page or two of the best submissions sent in for
it in the Epitaph?  I'd certainly be interested in reading over a selection
of summaries from Deadlands players, munchkins or not.
 
-Ralph