[DL] Re: Thought on Adventures [GOFF]

["Reuben McCallum" <bloopy40@hotmail.com>]

Hiya all!
Just a thought. The idea of this whole voting thing seems to be to get some 
player participation into the offical storyline, presumably so we the 
players of the game we all love so much can feel like we're involved in the 
process of creating it. I personally feel this is great idea. One of the 
things I love about Deadlands is that you people, the creators of this fine 
game, have always been available to hear our comments and feelings, and 
incorporate our wishes and desires into the game. Roleplaying by democracy 
seems like a great idea.
However, in the case of Ghostbusters, it does leave a problem in regards to 
the fact that people who go the other way with the plot have been left out 
to dry. And to my mind, all published adventures are going to have this 
problem.
But a possible solution is to use UNPUBLISHED ADVENTURES to determine the 
storyline!
Look at it this way. Your books all have plot hooks that seem to have been 
left there for GM's to play with. Obviously, to keep things safe with your 
own storyline, these things happen kind of "independantly" of the metaplot 
you people are constructing. So what about the results of these independant 
plot devices?
Why not have GM's submit a version of how they dealt with the events 
outlined in the plot. For example, I'm currently running an adventure based 
on the events surrounding the Shan Fan Kumite. If submit the results once 
they're done, perhaps even turning it into a Dime Novel style short story, 
or possibly just the important stuff, you present it to your dark 
masters...I mean co-workers...and see if you like what we did, and then it 
can be put into a publication similar to the Epitaph (or maybe just into the 
Epitaph) or possibly, at the end of the year, into something like ToT'77.
Now you're still going to have problems with some plots not matching 
individual marshal's plots, but those will be less apparent, as you'll have 
less marshal's using each individual plot device than you will have them 
using published adventures. As these things are sort of stand-alone anyways, 
it shouldn't create to much hacking to fit it back if you did do it 
differently.
Even using things that have no basis in current plot elements would be a 
good idea.
And of course, all these things could be determined on creative merit, not 
random draw. And nothing would give us little Deadlanders a bigger thrill 
than being able to contribute to game we love, and perhaps see our posse's 
name in print.
Just some thoughts, what'ya think?
Reuben McCallum
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