Re: [DL] Deadlands + Wrasslin' = NEw interest in Deadlands

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

At 04:10 PM 5/6/2002, Dan wrote:
>I'm not a Wrestling fan.  I'd go even far enough to say that I hate it.

         Welllll, I'll *try* not to hold that against you.:-)

>   On the other hand, I have some very good friends who love it with all 
> there hearts.  These friends have also never really like 
> deadlands.  Until I bought Lone Stars.  They saw the wrestling moves and 
> fell in love.  Now all they want me to do is run Deadlands so they can 
> make Texas Rangers(One wants to be named Stone Cold and the other wants 
> to be called the Undertaker).

         LOL! Thanks for sharing this, as you have truly made my day, good sir!

>As a side note,  I play classic Deadlands(so it doesn't really effect me), 
>but did anyone else notice that the Dual statted stuff in Lone Stars 
>seemed kinda boring.  I mean at least two of the Wrasslin moves just act 
>as the stunning fists feat(the Stunner and Groined Punch).
>
>I guess it just made me realize how many more options you have in classic 
>over D20.

         I wrote up the new Brawlin' Maneuvers for Classic DL first, then 
attempted to create D20 versions for them, and all of them were just 
obscenely long and rules-lawyer-ish. It wasn't until I took a closer look 
at the existing D20 Feats that I realized, "Gee, D20 kinda already *has* a 
version of this...."
         So, respectfully contrary to your impression, I came away with the 
feeling that the Brawlin' Maneuvers helped DL Classic "catch up" to D20 as 
far as options are concerned. Just my CS$0.02...

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

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