RE: [DL] Tellin' a Tale - Heart of Darkness

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

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> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Grand Master Nilus of the Dark Angel Chapter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] Tellin' a Tale - Heart of Darkness
>
>
> >It was fun - kind of, at least. And that's the most important
> thing. But I
> >really hate it when players deliberatley are trying to ignore a plot,
> >putting every effort in "why the hell should I go there and do this"
> >instead
> >of "there's a job do be done, and we're doing it".
> >
> This happens sometimes.  Players just want to act stupid and not
> get on with
> the plot.
>
> Hell your lucky your players just want to go fish.  I have a player who
> thinks its okay to eat the dead, In his defense he claims that since he's
> Mean as a Rattler and Bloodthirsty, and Harrowed...that it should
> be okay.
> Of course his only other flaw is HEROIC.  Which he tends to
> forget. Oh well,
> time to buy the Black Circle and look up rules on corruption.
>
> Dan

I'm lucky, all my players run games of their own at various times, and know
what it's like to have their players go wandering off, so everyone usually
tries to stick to the mission.

I also had a harrowed posse member eatin' people.  He was pretty desparate,
and showed no signs of turning that into a regular thing.  But when he up
and used his "meal" as a puppet, and I thought that was pretty gruesome and
called for Guts checks, and another posse member so utterly failed it and
died of a heart attack... well, nobody even thinks about eating people
corpses anymore.  It was all fun and games, until somebody died!

Jeff Y.