Ideas - Re: [DL] Rules Tinkerin': Fate Chips

["Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>]

On Monday, October 29, 2001, at 03:13  PM, Alan De Smet wrote:

> Unfortunately, doing so tends to increase the lethality of the
> game.

Remember one of the benefits of Deadlands - Death is not final... say 
maybe if a PC suddenly pulls the yell'r off him and charges into combat, 
and helps to defeat a major Abonination or a whole slew of lessers - 
maybe Fate may bring him something more then a chip... maybe fate could 
lead him into a Mystery (good if he has a mysterious past) or help him 
break from his past (A really annoying VotWW or other hindrance that he 
wishes to RP). If in his heroics, he himself makes the sacrifice, maybe 
Fate might smile on him - give him a point of colored grit, to help him 
come back Harrowed, should that be the character's desire. Another thing 
that helped my posse - maybe if you offered that a heroic PC dying in 
battle, His successor might just have fate smile on her (the old PC's 
fate chips, or bounty points? Maybe a weapon that belonged to the 
previous character which is now infused with the Magick of the Weird 
West? Let the PC be creative and think of a good reason... though I 
don't allow the tired "I am Ingo Montoya..." line.)

I think one thing that is the PC's are exepreincing is an 
over-attachment to the PC... try to remind them that the Weird West is a 
tough place - and lily-liver'd varmits don't get the brass ring... 
usualy just a brass knuckle in the face.

Now if the PC's abuse it, stop it. remember, thou art G.O.D - Gaming 
Operations Director. One idea was to have my posse enter a small, 
tight-knit ltitle town on the border of the Mojave - the PC's got in a 
little trouble by acting as they usualy do - and I didn't mention these 
are tough, battle-hardened people (well, they should figure that, w/ the 
Rattlers all about) or that most people had d8's as standard stats - and 
two of six didn't leave that little burgh alive. I almost couldn't stop 
laughing when one of the PC's called the townsfolk "rancheros with 
branding irons). That one got a shot in the arm after trying to steal 
some liquor. :-) It's deflating, but some times, ya need to do that. Oh 
yeah, it also burnt up the ol' chip piles too. :-)

Yes, I stole that idea from "Knights of the Dinner Table". And damn if 
it didn't work.

-Stryfe