Re: [HOE] Help out a poor foolish marshall?

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

After reading my first solution, you're right; it was just a way to screw
the posse over.

Junkyard I'm a bit more "iffy" on.  It IS a nice place to seed adventures,
and if the posse is TRULY well off, then they'll have a chance to do things
like bet on the sporting events, the junker can go scouring for parts, they
can sleep in actual BEDS, buy weird stuff, etc.  I don't think charging them
to get in is TOO demanding in this case, because it opens up a lot of
possibilities.

On the other hand, your idea works too.  In fact, I might not even charge
for the Renown edge since it'd be for such a VERY small area (one
settlement).  If they want to expand on that renown, then they can either
pay in bounty points OR pay in goodwill.

Still, every now and then you have to expect raiders to come calling,
especially if the group has a lot of goodies and isn't being very discreet
about it.  I mean, a whole bunch of adventures seem to start with "Town X
was raided by bandits/Black Hats/whatever and needs to to find item Y for
them."  It would make sense that a particularly wealthy posse might be set
upon by raiders, too.

I guess the secret is to keep it varied.  Have some good things happen, and
some bad things happen.

--Kai Tave

>You know, I'm reading all these threads and thinking "this should really
>be "how to screw over the posse 101" instead. What about some things that
>actually encourage the posse to give up some of their equipment.
>
>Is your posse at least a little heroic? Then have them come to a town
>that's down on its luck and needs some ammo/weapons/trade-goods. Hopefully
>the posse will be nice and give them some, or at least trade at a loss.
>Then tell the posse members that they can all buy Reknown at level 1 and
>for only 2 pts. instead of the normal 3 (or leave it at 3). Suddenly the
>posse is remembered by a few people as the bunch that helped town X while
>it was down. Of course you can come in to our town, your always welcome.
>Here let old doc. take a look at that wound for ya...
>
>Suddenly the posse realizes that helping people isn't just a way to feel
>golly-gee-wiz good, but they can also benefit from it. Maybe they'll do it
>more. With any luck soon your posse has taken care of the problem for you.
>And it hasn't been solved by blowing-up/stealing/over-charging for it.
>
>Towns could even trade for something useful that the posse might need. "We
>got these 5 AP 4 bullets off a dead soldier awhile back an' this LAW
>too... You say yer goin' up against some automatons. Sure you can have
>them, we could really use some food, a few guns and ammo and that old
>typerwriter there and maybe some of that TP... is it the kind with the
>lotion in it?"
>
>Of course this can go the other way too. If the posse turns down a town in
>need then they can pick up a bad rep. quickly. Especially if the town gets
>wiped out shortly afterwards from lack of ammo (except for a lone 'teller
>of course...)
>
>Then the next town they go to could be something like this: "Ain't you
>that bunch what let Near Fargo go up in flames? GET OUTTA HERE! WE DON'T
>WANT YOUR KIND ROUND OUR TOWN! YER NO BETTER THAN THROCKMORTON AND HIS
>STINKIN' BLACK HATS!" <followed by the falling of much spit, rocks and
>garbage on posse>
>Or worse: "Yeah, you can come in... it's gonna cost you though. Some food,
>a few guns and ammo and that old typerwriter there and maybe some of that
>TP... is it the kind with the lotion in it?"
>
>:)
>
>Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab
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