RE: [DL] keeping players alive

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

Not also that deadlands is generally a more realistic game than DnD; 
standing in the open and blazing away with your 6-gun is going to get you 
killed.  Cover, concealment, good tactics, etc. are important to stay alive.

And role-playing like a fiend, to get extra chips to soak damage


>From: "Yuri" <yuriz@twcny.rr.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Subject: RE: [DL] keeping players alive
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:59:05 -0400
>
>Welcome to the game and the list.
>
>Here's a couple of questions: do you give out enough chips in the game?
>There may not be armor (or at least not common), but the chips absorb
>wounds!
>
>Are you throwing too much combat at them? That eats chips faster than
>anything. Especially if it takes a while for the players to find some
>weakness of the monster you created.
>
>Yuri
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On
>Behalf Of T.
>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:46 AM
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: [DL] keeping players alive
>
>
>New to the list, new to the game, but I love the whole idea of it and
>have
>really enjoyed the sourcebooks immensely.
>
>However, what the books do not address and I havent seen on any
>Deadlands
>websites is suggestions on how a Marshal can keep his or her players
>alive!
>  I'm not a killer GM, nor do I coddle my players, but I forsee problems
>with practically no armor in the game and a lot of flying lead.  I had
>similar problems running Cyberpunk, and that game even had armor.
>
>Speaking of armor...I've always wondered why armor disappeared with the
>general introduction of firearms.  Surely the older firearms, even up
>until
>the Civil War couldnt penetrate metal?  Ignore for a moment the
>difficulties of wearing metal armor, especially in a western
>setting--does
>anyone on the list know enough about ballistics to answer the question?
>Because this game is going to be new to my players as well, and being
>used
>to d&d someone is gonna ask me why cant they just west plate or
>chainmail
>and sweat it out?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>--Tim
>
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