Re: [DL] Re: What Happened to the Union?

["Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>]

At 05:30 PM 5/6/2002, The Rusty wrote:
>And lets not forget the large contingent of Southerners who worked on the 
>book.  LOL.  Seriously, the Union is weakened because basically the 
>Deadlands history Can't exist if it isn't.

         That sound you hear is a nail-head being squarely struck by a 
mallet....;-)

>   It's not unreasonable to accept, although it does seem like the 
> Reckoners helped out a lot by making breaks go the Southern way, and no 
> luck at all to the Union.

         Helping the South=longer War=happy, happy Reckoners.

>At the same time, I was happy to see this discussion, because its always 
>bothered me that it seemed like the Union lost on every front, while the 
>South just has overwhelming success.

         Having actually used Victory Games' classic *The Civil War* 
boardgame to play out the entire first 16 years of The War in Deadlands, I 
can attest to the fact that the *only* way history can be as it is in the 
DL rulebook is for the South to get almost all the breaks, while the North 
gets next to none.
         I would never for a minute claim DL History is the most likely 
turn of events, only that it's a *plausible* one. The DL rulebook gave me 
as a writer a Point A (Gettysburg) and a Point B (the Confederacy alive and 
kicking @ss 14 years later), which I connected in as believable, 
entertaining, and (most of all) gameable manner possible. That work is 
(mostly) all published now, so it is up to the readers to judge wheteher or 
not it succeeds or fails in these aims.

>   I just attributed it to my pro-Union bias (born and raised in Ohio), 
> but I'm glad to see I am not alone.

         While I do in fact loathe the entire Yankee race:-):-):-):-), I 
never let it interfere with my writing.

         Seriously, if a historically accurate War is what you're looking 
for, just wait'll next year when Blood Feuds: The Weird War Between the 
States hits the shelves. I think it'll be a groovy book for anyone 
interested in gaming that period of time.


Deo Vindice,
Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.

Freelance RPG Writer At-Large
Member, Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design
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Southern by the Grace of God