Re: [DL] Shootists (spoilers)(long)

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

At 11:35 AM 5/20/2002, reemull@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>OK final post on Lone Stars this time focusing on the new Shootist AB,
>again here be spoilers...
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>The hexes are ok - as I said earlier not as many extra hexes as I hoped 
>for - assuming that people had seen the cut hexes from Law Dogs that were 
>in the accumulated rulings, there was only one new hex.

         I'll gladly take an OK--guess I'm just a 'ho for any sort of 
praise.:-)

         I wish there had been more room for new stuff, but as I said 
before, the old stuff needed to be revised and updated, the cut stuff 
deserved to see print, and once all that was dual-statted--well, as I said, 
at that point, it was either bring things to a regrettable close or change 
Lone Stars into the "Shootist Sourcebook."
         I felt--feel--quite confident others (if not myself) will add much 
more new Shootist material in Epitaphs to come. The Rangers' time for a 
book was long overdue, so they took precedence.

>I liked that all the hexes now are directly related to guns and I can see 
>that there has been an effort to make all the hexes directly relevant to 
>guns although I still think that there is room for a couple of hexes 
>related to the gunfighting image as well.

         Thank you very much for noticing! That was quite deliberate on my 
part.
         And I quite agree that more hexes which enhance the gunfighter's 
image would be great addtions. Time for all us Shootist fans to get to 
work, methinks!

>However even a hex that allowed a Shootist to stay standing a little 
>longer while losing blood would suit the image of the hard nosed 
>gunslinger very well I'd have thought.  Something like
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>"Still Standing"

         Ahhh, I see you're way ahead of me, good sir!;-)

>  I like the fact that the hexes as they stand have some nice tactical 
> effects that a thinking gunfighter can use rather than being limited to 
> the "more damage, but in different ways" type of hex.

         Thank you, both for the kind words and correctly surmizing my 
intentions.

>Out of interest was there any reason for removing the Cognition trait as 
>being one used by the hexes?

         Which specific hexes do you have in mind?

         Thanks again for all the great feedback!

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

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