Re: [DL]: Beginners questions (a bunch)

[Patrick Phalen <pphalen@yahoo.com>]

> I recall one deadlands website, but I can't find it
> now, had a list of random (non-occult) events.  You
> draw a card every game month and something happened
> that was unrelated to the adventure.  Examples would
> be, the circus coming to town, drought, bank robbers,
> etc.  The idea was to add some spice to the game and
> maybe a red herring or two.  I can see a more random
> encounter tables along this line (of a non-reckoning
> level) useful for playing off the cuff.  Even better
> would be to grab a bunch of index cards and write up
> some preset encounters (wagon train, bandits hideout,
> campsite littered with dead bodies) and randomly draw
> from them as needed.  Afterwards tear up the index
> card so as to avoid repeats (dang, that's the 4th
> random mohave rattler this adventure ....)

A nice idea that someone posted waaay back was to use
doomtown cards.  Deal out a cuople and let them inspire a
story...


Patrick
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