RE: [HOE] Unity Question

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

(I don't think I'm mentioning anything spoiler-like, but just in case.)









As a Weird West marshal with all the green books too, I can say that I
plan on running the Unity.  Obviously not very soon, seeing as my posse
is a couple centuries away in the time line.  But, I have grand plans to
do some personal Weird West stuff, some published Weird West stuff,
culminating in the Devils Tower.  I'm guessing my group would go thru
the door, making them my official HOE posse.  More personal and
published stuff culiminating in Unity.

I very much liked the Unity book.  It's a kick butt story.  Reading some
of the nay-sayer posts I find my view changing a bit.  Not that I don't
like it anymore, but there are some tweaks I'll make to include the
posse more.  Mostly adding a few side-missions in the same vein as the
SAM site strike.  But mostly the book accomplishes its goals:  Have a
huge meta-plot wrapping-up and huge war without totally leaving the
posse out.  Hard things to do.  The issues with the Unity being less
than fleshed out shouldn't impact much right away.  Have sinister sounds
coming from side passages so that the posse picks the "right" direction
themselves if you must.  There's a goal to be had at this point and the
rest of the ship is just side-track-city.  Hopefully something official
will expand Unity soon, since that's pretty much where a Lost Colony
campaign might start.  The Unity could be detailed in the Lost Colony
book, or in Epitaph 4.  But my posse would definitly investigate the
rest of the ship once they recover from the trip.  Then you've gotta
know what's there.

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On 
> Behalf Of matt ryan
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:50 PM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: [HOE] Unity Question
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> Good morning,
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> I bought the Unity and read parts of it. I have read nearly 
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> Question: Has anyone actually played the Unity yet? I know 
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> testers got their hands on it before publication, but have any of the 
> people praising it played it? How about the nay-sayers?
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> In our Deadlands group, I find that the only person who cares 
> about the 
> overall saga aspect of the game is the marshal. He thinks all 
> the connected 
> bits and ongoing plot threads are great. The players (I am a 
> player who 
> marshalls occasionally) seem to care less. They are happy as 
> long as they 
> have a critter nestled between their gun sights. Are HOE 
> players the same way?
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> I've been slowly collecting the HOE books. I've nearly got 
> all of them; I 
> certainly have enough to start a campaign. I plan to take our 
> gaming group 
> through some of the pre-made adventures. I will start with 
> the adventure 
> from the Radiation Screen (although it seems to start rather 
> violently). 
> I'll progress through some others. It's going to be a long 
> time before I 
> have to decide if I want to include the Unity adventure.
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> matt
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