Re: [DL] 1876 vs. 1877

["Roy Spence" <rs95065@weir.co.uk>]

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 06:58:11PM -0700, Allan Seyberth said:
> > 1876.  The Revised Edition is meant to be the "reprint" of the core rules, 
> > and they didn't add any new information in it.

The Evil Robot replied...
>  From my reading of it, I took the Revised Edition to relate to 1877.  The
>  blurb on the back of the Players' Guide starts with "The year is 1877, but
>  the history is not our own...", and the Tombstone Epitaph bit at the start
>  has info on happenings in 1877 (as far as I can remember), and I think the
>  background info towards the back of the Marshal's Guide has things that
>  happened in 1877 as well...
> 
>  As ever, though, I reserve the right to have been utterly wrong.  I feel
>  less sure of myself as the seconds go by.

Well I for one think you are right on this one.  As far as I can 
remember the revised Players guide provides different information on 
the City of Lost Angels than it did in the original rules.  Also (as 
Allan has stated on another thread ;-) ) the map in the book has 
been updated to reflect an incident in 1877 which put the town on the 
map!

I've ended up keeping the Players guide from my players as it reveals 
too much!

Also ToT:77 gives information on the towns additional to that in 
either the revised or original rules.  It also provides bucket loads 
of information on how the war is going all along the battle lines, 
which is useful if you are wanting to incorporate this into your 
game - which is detailed as the Novemeber offensives (1876) 


Roy
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