RE: [DL] Is the Collegium useful?

["Matthew DeForrest" <mmdeforrest@worldnet.att.net>]

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I'm rounding out my Deadlands collection, and I'm wondering how much milage
people got out of "The Collegium." I don't play Doomtown, I don't have
Doomtown or Bust, and I don't usually uset he Maze as a setting.  How useful
is it for Mad Scientists in general?
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The MS in my posse has found it very useful -- both as a source of ideas for
him to build (If he wants to find the manitou's ideas, I have no problem
with it....) and as a way to think about how to integrate the "theory" part
of an invention into the process.

That being said, he ended up pulling four of a kind while designing a simple
conversion of his steam wagon to allow it to become amphibious.  The rear
wheels spreading fins and driving through the water a la WWII amphibious
craft didn't seem good enough to the manitou.  He'll now be rerouting the
steam from his ghost-rock engine into water jets located near the drive
train.

Hope this helps.

Matt