RE: [HOE] RE: favorite books

[Fletcher Stuart <Stuart.Fletcher@accantia.com>]

Without a doubt, the Junkman Cometh is one of the finest game books ever.
The background info is excellent and fills some historical blanks, the
device construction rules are fun, well thought out and ingeniously
intricate even if they are a little prone to power-gaming abuse, there are a
few little holes and contradictions in there but they've been cleared up in
addena and on this list (The details of which can be found on the Darious
site on the Peginc.com links page, sorry if that's a little vague), Wasted
Warriors tidies up combat, clears up tonnes of history, list and stats loads
of military gear, goes over the updated martial arts rules and is a good
read all round. Wasted West gives a good broad overview of the setting with
some specific place and character histories, plus some new rules. These
three will stand you in good stead. The rest are all of a very high standard
but these tie alot more of the pieces together. After those I'd go for the
charcter books that your party is consisted of and Road Warriors just
because the Vehicle Combat rules are useful and your bound to need them
sooner or later.

I haven't really narrowed it down much have I?

Sorry.

Why don't you just fold and buy everything like we all did. It's inevitable
trust me. I only bought the HOE main book out of interest, now I have a
straining shelf full of worryingly green books alongside my violently orange
books.

Hope this was some help,

Stubby Stu



-----Original Message-----
From: matt ryan [mailto:mrr15@cornell.edu]
Sent: 11 March 2002 15:02
To: Hell on Earth
Subject: [HOE] RE: favorite books


Morning gang,

I'm new to both the list and the HOE game, although I've spent about a year 
playing in the Deadlands: the Weird West sister game. Now I've got my 
grubby little hands on a couple of the HOE books and I like 'em.

So, I'll ask the typical newbie questions:
Which books are your (list posters, lurkers and assorted other fellow 
geeks) favorites?
Which books do you use most in your campaign?

This is only an opinion poll. I've got my sights set on a select group to 
supplement my meager (but growing) collection. What did people think about 
Iron Oasis? The Last Crusaders?

Finally, is there a good introductory, drop-and-go adventure?

thanks,

matt


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