Re: [DL] posse ghosts?

["travis lide" <sinisterdexter@mindspring.com>]

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> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:07:17 -0400
> From: baron11@netmcr.com
> Subject: Re: [DL] posse ghosts?

<some snipage occured here>

> > > The only thing missing. Rules for the Posse to play ghosts!
> >
> >ack! No! Too much like _Wraith_!.... (which, just in my opinion, is quite
> >possibly the worst thing we can turn trees into...)
> >
> >:-)
>
> aw, come on, Wraith was not that bad.  It was sure deeper then a lot of
WoD
> games.

I certainly grant that it was deeper. Just not very much fun. Of course, I
think that about White Wolf's other titles as well... with the exception of
Mage.. but that's a whole different topic.

> Still, a game with PC Ghosts needs not be _anything_ like Wraith.   Wraith
> took Ghosts in an interesting new direction (albeit not one I was crazy
> about).  But a game with Ghost PCs need not be anything like Wraith.
Given
> the metaphysic of Deadlands, it would surly be different.

absolutly! For one, it would be more fun to play than:
Wraith: Hey, go avenge my death!
Guy: Um... No.
Wraith: Please?
Guy: No.
Wraith: Drat!
    (skulks off to sulk and be "angsty")
(okay so that is a GROSS oversimplification, but you get the point.)

Actually, I had a friend who ran a pretty good Wraith game (or so he said)..
he just didn't let people leave the spirit world... he figured he had access
to everyone who ever died if he kept them there and ran a totally political
game. Napoleon had his armies marching, Hitler had his, Alexandre the Great,
etc... pretty damned interesting. But I never got to play in it. Oh well....
sounded interesting anyway.

> a PC Ghost would be tough to do.  I'd LOVE to be able to do it (and really
> looked forward to Wraith for a whole year believing WW had a compatible
> system), but it would be extremely difficult.  Ghosts are, by nature,
often
> invisible and intangible.  this makes them tough already.
>
> was I, by chance, redundant enough?

absolutly! For sure. Yeppers. I would be inclined to answer in the
affirmative.

:-)
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