RE: [DL] Campaign Details

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

Try this variation:  the Preachers/Midwives record births in the _family_
bible, not their own.  My mother and mother-in-law both have bibles that
have in effect become family heirlooms, with the history of births, deaths,
and marriages recorded within.  Yeah, the preacher might record these
things, but his bible is only so big, and if he has a large flock, then he
just won't have enough room.  And yeah, explaining why the preacher's bible
is missing is kinda hard.  But if each family were responsible for their own
record keeping, then missing family bibles are explained by saying things
like "Cousin Susie borrowed it" or even "it was here yesterday" when the
villain has absconded with the book.

Jeff Y.

>
> See...  This is what I'm talking about.  Of course a
> preacher's bible would be a perfectly logical place to
> look, especially in 1877.  But it's something I would
> NEVER think of during my planing.
>
> However, once I told them that good old town hall
> burned down last year or that the records simply
> weren't there one of my players would pipe up
> (probably my girlfriend's sister; she's exceptionally
> good at this) and say, "Is there a preacher in town?"
>
> And I'd squint my eyes and say, "Yeah, why?"
>
> And she'd say, "Because he probably records such
> things in his bible."
>
> And I'd go, "D'oh!" And if I didn't want them to have
> that information yet or at all I'd have to make up
> some silly excuse on the fly why he didn't have it.
>
> I have to stop running mysterys.  My group is just way
> too clever and way more knowledgable than I am.
>
> Jesse
>
>