RE: [DL] Back East: The Lost Pages

["Christopher L. McGlothlin" <cmcgloth@halifax.com>]

At 06:06 PM 11/18/2000 -0500, Dr. Matthew DeForrest wrote:
>Christopher,

	Hi again, Matt! Hope you've been well!

>I thought the intro sounded more like the Southern Sentinel than Lacy
>O'Malley

	Thank you very much for the constructive criticism (trust me, I DO listen
and try to learn from it!;) ).
	You're absolutely correct; I've never really been happy with my attempts
at aping Lacy's "voice." I guess when it comes right down to it, there's
only one man who *can* sound like Lacy, and that's the Incomparable Mr.
Hensley himself.
	(As an aside, the greatest acknowledgement of this is the fact that all of
us *DL* freelancers came up with other characters to "narrate" for us
instead of Lacy. The Southern Sentinel, for example, was born from that
necessity.)  

>I liked the
>combining of relatively solid information about the immediate area (whether
>that be southern or northern) combined with a certain amount of animosity
>towards the other.  It was a nice way to present both the information and
>the hostility and disinformation present in the other (As a Northern
>transplant into NC, I can vouch for the fact that some misconceptions still
>remain....).

	Thank you very much! I really did want to convey the emnity between the
North and South that exists Back East, and I'm glad I did so adequately.
	(I also wanted to shock the heck out of everyone by writing an
anti-Southern piece. :-) ) 

>I also know my players will like the Marksman and Fightin' (Rifle) skills.

	Wow! Thank you again, good sir! After being toasted alive on (and driven
from) the listserver when I first broached the idea of the Marksman
Aptitude, it feels VERY good to get some positive feedback about it!
	You have made my millenium, my dear fellow.;)

	(BTW, if any of you Marshals have incorporated the Marksman Aptitiude into
your games, I'd greatly appreciate knowing how it "works"--or fails to
work--in actual game play.)

>Thanks for the additions and take care.

	You are most welcome, kind sir, and thank you for taking the time to share
your thoughts.
 

Deo Vindice,
Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed.

Additional Developer: Deadlands: The Weird West Revised Edition
Co-Author: Tales o' Terror: 1877, Back East: The South & the JLA Sourcebook
Reviewer: Games Unplugged Magazine
Southern by the Grace of God