Re: [DL] A Motto for Marshals (was Re: In my defense...) [spoilers]

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> >>>I stat Stone because I want the players to have a
> chance, however minimal, of surviving and possibly
> beating Stone.<<<
>
> >>>if the PCs manage to kill Stone (however I think this
> is entrely impossible) then the world will be a better
> place, and isn't that the real spirit of Deadlands?
> fighting a losing battle<<<
>
> Part of the point here, for having stone without stats, is so that it IS
> IMPOSSIBLE for the players to defeat him.
>
> This, as has been said, by Shane, and others as well informed on the
> matter, is ESSENTIAL for the Deadlands storyline.

No, it's essential to be unable to KILL him, not DEFEAT him.  They can
defeat him (they do have a prayer, God just doesn't necessarily answer
prayers), but they can't kill him.  Thw two are not necessarily the same.

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times