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

At 10:09 AM 5/21/2002, Mr. Roy Spence wrote:
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>Well I did think it ranked more than a "could do better" :-)

         Like I said, if it's not overtly negative, I'll take it!:-)

>I did wonder if the fact that all the hexes directly referenced the gun 
>rather than the person was a decision that had been made concerning 
>Shootists - however it seems from your response that it is the base 
>foundations for possible future additions.

         I wanted to cover the "cool stuff you can do with guns" hexes 
first--they *are* Shootists, after all.;-) When that ate up 8 pages (or so) 
of a book (at least purportedly;-)) about the Texas Rangers, that's where I 
had to stop.
         There are *a lot* of really cool "style" sort of hexes that could 
be done, and as you deduced, I hope I (or someone else) gets to publish 
them in an Epitaph.

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

         Thanks for the examples. The "Designing New Hexes" section of H&H 
prompted me to make the change, as it indicates Cognition relates to 
"Communication or Informational" Hexes, neither of which seemed applicable 
to the Hexes in question.

>Actually this is something that piqued my curiosity as well, as recently 
>Mr McGlothlin has stated that he has plans for another AB -and I was 
>wondering if this would again be a revision - or if it would be something 
>that was all new?

         If Shane says I can spill all the beans on this, I will, but for 
now I will try to clarify as much as I can here.

         There will be no more new ABs, period. *However*, the Shootist 
established what I like to call "Huckster sub-classes"--ABs centered around 
methods of visualizing the contest of wills with the manitou other than 
poker. The Shootist is the first of these "sub-classes", and I am *very* 
excited about the second, which is scheduled for Epitaph #5.

         Thanks again for the post!

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

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