Re: [HOE] [Shane] legend chips, how oftern?

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> I think your group is probably about right (at least your group seems
> to get Legend chips about as often as my group does).  I only give out
> chips once a Major story arc.  Usually about every few months or even
> less often.  Probably 7ish chips in the threeish years we've been
> playing.

I think more often than not we forget to give out legend chips. But often
it doesn't apply I guess. Like in the last "arc" of my Deadlands game the
posse was up against a small faction of The Agency that was trying to muck
with time and work with Throckmorton to prevent the Last War (at least the
Agency was, good old Throckie had his own plans). In the end the posse
found the Agency's underground base and basically blew it up to stop them.
They defeated a major foe, but there was no fearmonger and no one to
really tell the tale to ("And then, we defeated the gov't agency that was
trying to fix time and... Hey, put your guns down! We are not Rebel
Scum!!!")

> I think legend chips should be very, very scarce.  Corruption in these
> games is meant to be a truly desperate struggle, and most players
> should lose the fight eventually.  The characters in my games usually
> start out not knowing that what they call on is evil, but as a
> Marshal, I give them clues and hints that their power doesnt come from
> a pure source, eventually they get the hint, and then it becomes a
> real challenge to not use their powers as often as they are used to,
> for fear of being overwhelmed by the evil they would control.

Must be nice having a posse that doesn't know what's going on. I run
Deadlands and another guy runs HoE (actually we just switched). So there's
always one posse member that knows the rules behind things, and no matter
how hard one tries, that's going to effect things a little.

I agree about Legend chips being scarce and Corruption being a real
threat. I was just worried that we were making it TOO impossible to reduce
it.

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab, Safety Warden (Bldg. 85)


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