RE: [DL] Mundane vs. arcane

["William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Subject: RE: [DL] Mundane vs. arcane
>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:50:40 -0400
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> > Behalf Of William Ogden
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:15 PM
> > To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> > Subject: RE: [DL] Mundane vs. arcane
> >
><Some Snips>
> >
> > i think you just proved my point.  The counter for a hexslinger
> > is a badguy
> > hexslinger, according to your post.  So what happens when the normal
> > gunfighter runs into a badbuy hexslinger or Black Magic user?
> > He's kind of
> > screwed.
> >
>
>I thought your point was that DL arcanes were too powerful, and so were
>thinking of switching to DL D20 because a mundane can take on an arcane.  
>My
>point was that, in either system, a mundane can't take on an arcane if the
>arcane has time to cast spells/prepare.  Wether the mundane is the good guy
>or the bad guy, he should be using his head and preparing ways to counter
>the arcane.  The same way that a guy with a knife will most likely get
>killed by a guy with a gun if the gun fighter is allowed time to draw 
>first.
>Any distinct advantage will greatly help the guy that has it, if he's
>allowed to use it.  The same arcane/gunfighter mix would be greatly 
>powerful
>regardless of rules system used.
>
>Mundane gunfighters can survive and thrive in the Weird West.  Two of the
>long-winded characters in my campaign are totally normal.  They've
>encountered a werewolf, nosferatu, rattlers, black magicians, and hucksters
>(not to mention hordes of walkin' dead).  Their companions have been
>hexslingers, harrowed, hucksters, blessed, and an indian brave and shaman.
>All got chewed up and spit out (sometimes very literally).  YMMV but in my
>experience, under many different rules systems/genres, character
>survivability is more related to player actions and less to character
>abilities.
>
>Jeff Y.

Actually I'm starting to think it's GM style.  And if under d20 mundanes 
were more powerful compared to arcanes, other people would probably complain 
that the d20 arcanes are to weak.

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