Re: [[DL] Dealing With Wind]

[Ogy Joe <OgyJoe@netscape.net>]

That is a very good question as I just fell victim to such a scenario last
week.  There were two massive ambushes setup, and the party, all newbies just
starting this campaign, winded both ambushes to death.  

Personally, I think when the odds are 3 to 1, you shouldn't be able to so
easily dig your way out.  They managed to wound with every hit and do enough
wind to send the bad guys snoozing.  Otherwise, the baddies failed their Vigor
rolls and became stunned.  

Am I doing something wrong here, or are the bad guys supposed to be this
pathetic.  Makes me glad the adventure had a good story, otherwise my players
would be bored to death (with the exception of the brave reporter who had a
massive coronary on a TN of 3).

One other question, is the scart table open-ended?  By that I mean, do I
reroll sixes and keep going.  By Secondary Marshall (the other guy who has
read all the rules and we help each other out) said yes, so that's what I went
with for then, but what do you all think?

Ogy Joe

Jesse Burneko <jburneko@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I hate to have to keep using my old Chill campaign as
> an example but there are reasons we abandoned it and
> I'm trying to avoid similar mistakes.  In Chill there
> were the concepts of Stamina and Wounds which are
> comparable to Deadlands' Wind and Wounds,
> resprectively.  Simlarly, Stamina went down much
> faster than Wounds just like Wind goes down much
> faster than Wounds in Deadlands.
> 
> At lot of the creatures in Chill said things like:
> This creature takes normal Stamina Loss but no Wounds
> from normal weapons.
> 
> This was, presumable to make creatures more scary
> because you couldn't kill them.  But it seems to me
> that an unconcious creature is just as good as a dead
> one.
> 
> What constantly kept happening was that my supposedly
> very powerful creature would have one shot at doing
> something nasty to the party then my 5 or 6 party
> members would all shoot it and down it would go
> because of Stamina loss.  Game Over.
> 
> I see the same problem potential in Deadlands.  Now, I
> noticed that some creatures don't take wind, which
> solves the problem.  Also, the Marshal has fate chips
> that s/he can spend to aleviate wounds and wind but
> since the Marshal only has 3 for the whole lot of the
> baddies he's running that will only work for so long.
> 
> So my question is, how do you other Marhsal's deal
> with preventing your climaxes from being anti-climatic
> by having some supposedly powerful creature droping
> unconcious with 1 or 2 shots.
> 
> On a related tangent for creatures where you're more
> likely to go for different body parts (like the
> tentacles of a Desert Thing or Mojave Rattler) do the
> creatures take Wind damage for damage done to these
> parts or just when damage is done to the bulk of the
> body?  
> 
> As always, Thanks, in advance.
> 
> Jesse
> 
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