Re: [DL] Lone Stars Thoughts (spoilers)(long)

[Scott Foster <saf2c@comcast.net>]

I've always had the image of Val Kilmer in "Tombstone" in my mind as Doc
Holliday. While not a goody-twoshoes, he certainly had a sense of justice
and right and wrong. While not historically accurate, this Doc fits well
with the one in DL. Personally, I had intended to write up Doc as Harrowed,
and may still send the character that direction in my campaign.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mr. Christopher McGlothlin, M.Ed." <sosentinel@adelphia.net>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [DL] Lone Stars Thoughts (spoilers)(long)


>          You know, just between us (and I guess, all the people subscribed
> to the list, too;-)), I have felt that way for a while now. As most of you
> know, I loathe doing overmuch damage to history in my writing, but the
> trouble here is, IMHO, there's just no reconciling the "real Doc" with the
> "DL Doc".
>          If you go back and look at what's been written of Holliday in DL
> thus far, impending death has apparently made Doc a changed man. While
that
> quite obviously flies in the face of history, I couldn't in good
conscience
> contradict multiple, previously published, DL books, including the main
> rulebooks, and suddenly change him into "historical Doc".
>          On the plus side, the "dying man yearning for redemption" was
> *exactly* the hook I was looking for to make the Shootist different from
> its "huckster with guns" forebearer, so I went with it.