Re: [DL] Faeries/Sidhe in Deadlands - a touch of Changeling

[EverWyrd <Everwyrd@everwyrd.com>]

I agree with Dan. it's fun to tweak game mechanics but the cards and chips
seem to work really well and enhance the flavor of the game. If one adds
liver to a chocolate cake there may be more vitamins but it's just not the
same... :)

On a Changeling note, there would be no sidhe (or very few given the
exceptions of the Scatach) in the old west as, according to Changeling
rules, they did not arrive back on earth until 1969 (unless you changed that
as well). As far as tapping into Arcadia.... the commoner kiths would be
very interested in a way to do that. :)

Check out the White Wolf sourcebook "The Enchanted". This might give you a
few ideas about characters with Faerie Blood....The Irish who crossed over
to America for example might  work...The Ninuehi spirits in
The Changeling Players Guide might give you some more crossover ideas.

Just 2 cents from a Changeling Storyteller who recently pinned a tin star on
his vest.

Alan


> >Keep in mind I'm only taking this from the very
> >limited knowledge I have of changeling: the Dreaming.
> >The Changeling Quickstart Guide was very helpful, but
> >if anyone can take this ball and run with it, I'd be
> >most appreciative.
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> Its always good to get some fresh ideas into a game, but I think it starts
> to draw the game away from its roots.
>
> Deadlands is a Western Horror game.  I think the Indian(Native American)
> view on the spirtual world fits best because it fits the genre. I think
> Irish/British spirtual ideas(I assume thats what changeling draws
primarily
> from) seems as out of place as Japanese or Chinese spirtual ideas.
>
> I think its more advantageuos for a Marshall to focus on writing good
> adventures for the world your given, A lot of good writers spent a lot of
> time already writing a perfectly good world view to work with, Why fix it,
> if it ain't broke.
>
> Just My Opinion
>
> Dan
>