RE: [DL] new hinderance

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-deadlands@gamerz.net 
> [mailto:owner-deadlands@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of Evil Robot 
> Shane From Another Dimension
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:13 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [DL] new hinderance
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:08:13PM -0400, bruce boragine said:
> > i can't see how these weren't in the game.. or did the u big guys 
> > think there were enough or too many already?
> 
>  Well, most of it is already covered - a foreign person who 
> grew up with  a different language (there's your Spanish and 
> Chinese accents taken  care of) could take English at only 1 
> skill level, rather than the 2 that  native English speakers 
> start with.  That's how I've handled it.
> 
>  Asides from that, if you wanted to do somebody with a real 
> thick hillbilly  accent or something, maybe you could fuse 
> the Squeaky and Tinhorn  hindrances together somehow?
> 
>  Wishkah

Isn't there already a Ferner hinderance, that covers language
differences/accents?  Ferner could be applied to many situations
(Yankees in the South are Ferners, and probably the subject of
Intolerance as well, assuming they were'nt shot or imprisoned right away
(if deserving of such treatment!)).

While I can't say as the situations originally described wouldn't count
as hinderances, I'm guessing that some of the existing Hinderances could
be stretched to fit.  Sure, stutterin' don't make you a ferner, but can
make you just as hard to understand as a ferner.

But as always, YMMV.

Jeff Y.