Re: [DL] Re: deadlands D20

["Jimmy Craig" <jimmythebarrel@hotmail.com>]

Ok, good answer. And I see your point.
Understand that I am not siding with D20 against you or anyone else, I agree 
that the system is not that great. mediocre at best. I do not like the 
skills or much of anything about character creation.
I just wanted an intelligent argument against it. I want to hear someone 
tell me something more than "that system sucks". But I am still going to 
reserve judgment until I have the Peg games in my hands so I can see what a 
company who is not owned by Hasborg can do with the system.

And John Wick is probably right. If this can out under any system other than 
D&D, it probably would never have made it out of manuscript form.

OK, I am done with my arguing, Deadlands on!!:)


Jimmy the Barrel

>
> >Not harping on Deadlands, no sir. I loves me some Deadlands, but come up
> >with something better than this to dislike D20. ;)
>
>Okay. . .
>
>How about inelegant, complex, unrealistic, and arbitrary rules that do not
>mimic any kind of existing genre except hack and slash DnD.
>
>I remember a cartoon in the back of a Dragon magazine where there is an
>ogre standing in front of a firing squad of archers.  The ogre is standing
>there, peppered with arrows.
>The captain of the firing squad has paper and pen out and is informing the
>squad that they only have to hit it with another 12.8 arrows before it goes
>down.
>
>And as much as I dislike to agree with the egotistical twit, John Wick had
>a good point when he stated that if it wasn't for the fact that DnD was
>attached to it, the system would be laughed out of the market.

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