Re: [DL] When did this appear?

[Evil Robot Shane From Another Dimension <wishkah@redbrick.dcu.ie>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:09:32PM -0400, Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed. said:
> 	This made me wonder: have you ever had occasion to include famed
> Confederate General Patrick Cleburne (born and raised in Eire) in any of
> your games? 

 Well, the campaign I'm running is still my first (in Deadlands, at least),
 and we're only up to March of '76 thus far (we started in late '75), so
 there's still most of the Deadlands universe out there to be explored -
 we've only scratched the surface.  Also, due to the military backgrounds
 of half of the posse (to cut a long story short, the huckster recently
 made himself an official deserter from the Confederate Army rather than just 
 an escaped POW, and the gunslinger was an officer for the Union before
 circumstances caused him to leg it - and boy, does he ooze "officer" through
 any disguise) they'd be very likely to take off at the first sign of anything
 soldierly.

 That said, (yah, this is going to sound like boot-licking, but it's not) I
 really liked Tales o' Terror: 1877 and I'll be working in some element of
 the November Offensives when that time comes.  Also, once they get as far
 west as they want to go (currently crossing the Rockies from Denver to
 Salt Lake City) I can start steering them east again, so we can start
 exploring the War, amongst other things.  I did say something the other week
 to one of my posse members along the lines of "the guy who wrote this book
 is on the mailing list and he mentioned that he has a complete-but-unofficial
 Civil War timeline for Deadlands on his computer, so I've been contemplating
 going to his house and stealing his hard disk".

 Regarding Patrick Cleburne, I haven't actually heard of him outside of
 Deadlands.  A friend of mine did mention a story about a house somewhere
 near her point of origin (County Cavan) that used to be maintained as a
 tourist attraction because it's Where Such-and-such An American General Was
 Born.  Then some tourists pointed out that the reason this guy was famous
 was because of his remarkable Indian-butchering, so they stopped maintaining
 and promoting it then.  Can't remember the guy's name, though - I'll check
 it out if you like.

 Finally, nobody calls it "Eire".  :>)

 Wishkah

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