RE: [HOE] Dual Statting and conversions

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
> Damon M Sutton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: [HOE] Dual Statting and conversions
>
>
> I understand that the D20 and the Deadlands system are about as
> different as
> two systems can be, but have people actually had much difficulty
> converting bad
> guys from one to another?  After all, any game really has only the
>
> Weenies,
> Mediums,
> Toughs,
> Monsterous,
> and
> "Tentacle attack kills 2d6 party members"
>
>    So all I've ever needed to ask myself is 'How tough is this
> beastie supposed
> to be?', and give it stats of around that toughness.
>
>    There may be disagreements, "Ok, so my Automatons have a DR of
> 5, and my
> players think it should have been a DR of 2", but as there is one
> marshall per
> game, and that marshall makes the call, I'd think it's just a
> matter of making
> the call, rolling some dice,and doing it.
>
>    Am I being too simplistic about converting characters?
>

Not at all if it works for you.  That method would work for me too for that
matter.  But there are those that  like the "official-ness" of having
something written down and published and thereby "blessed" by PEG.  That's
fine too.  And PEG needs to cater to as many fans as they can, so anything
they do publish pretty much has to be dual statted.

That, and when we're not playing Deadlands, my group plays DnD fantasy.  No
harm in "borrowing" a d20 Deadlands beastie to keep the party on their
toes...

Jeff Y.
Marshal for the Dynamite Gang