Re: [HOE] Are the books 'too big'?

[Pat Gamblin <shosuro@nbnet.nb.ca>]

At 10:31 AM 27/09/00, you wrote:
>By the way, I'm 24 years old,
>      But, I was thinking about the Wasted West Sourcebook and how it has 
> more
>ideas in it than just about anything I ever bought.  And then it occurred to
>me how most MArshalls use their own ideas,
>
>     And I had this question.  Exactly HOW much of this material ever 
> ACTUALLY
>gets used?  In my HoE games, I've seen it used very sporadically, and at a
>rate where in 1000 years we'll actually have had some completion, funny, I've
>had dates like that too.

I use a lot of what's in the various books for inspiration. A bit of it is 
used as it appears in the books, more is modified somewhat. I usually use 
the books to give me ideas, design the basics of the campaign around that, 
then see where it takes me. : }

Marshall Paddy