RE: [DL] Which System to Use for a New Game

["Ogy Joe" <ogyslists@mail.midtnn.net>]

> Blasphemer!  I have the d20 book myself, and while I do think it's 
good, and
> if the real Deadlands had never been released could be the greatest 
game, it
> pales in comparison to the card system and chips in the standard game.
> Nothing adds flavor to a western game like a brass spittoon full of 
clay
> poker chips and a deck of cards.

Amen my brother!  In D20, you just lose so many things.  Since D20 is a 
much more simplified system (in comparison with normal Deadlands), you 
lose the ability to do many things.  Among some of the most noteable 
are Hindrinces, Veteran of the Weird West, Mysterious Past, open-ended 
rolls, hit locations, etc.  I am having to devise several house rules 
just to be able to tlerate D20 myself.  My players voted to convert the 
campaign to D20, so I abliged, but it is going to be more of a 
D20/original blend, without many changes being noticable to the players.

Ogy Joe
"How can you expect to succeed if you don't risk failure?"