Re: [DL] Player info vs. Marshal info

["Ben Rasmussen" <nyddoybdyle@hotmail.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [DL] Player info vs. Marshal info


>
> >--- Matt Maybray wrote:
> > > Not to sound pissy or anything, but I'll be honest
> > > and say I was originally feeling a tad insulted for
> > > being slammed for openly discussing something that's
> >
> > > in No Man's Land.
>
> I thought that "officially" no man's land was stuff you could look at with
> your marshal's permission.  which kind of implies that spoilers are
> appropriate

My take was that if the topic of the no man's land applied to you, you could
look at it with out really spoiling much.

Hence the no man land for Ghost Dancers talks about stuff Indians might
know. If you're no Injun, stay out, since you wouldn't know it.

Glancing over the books I have I don't see much in the way of spoiler
material in the no man sections. It tends to be dumping ground for more
specific rules, relics, and a more indepth look at specific topics covered
by the book.

Then again, my players read everything and I blab alot. So I just make up
more stuff and lie to them. Maybe that's why they hate me...




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... armchair philosophers? Where are they supposed to do it? "Descarte leapt
across the ditch as the bullets buzzed past his ears like angry wasps - 'If
all I can know is the product of my own perceptions,' he thought as he
punched another Hussar in the throat, 'then all I can say with any
confidence is "I think, therefore I am." ' Turning, he grabbed the Prussian
colonel's cap and wrenched down over his ears, tossing him back into the
trench now filled with twisted corpses."  --Radical Athority (rpg.net)