RE: [DL] Re: Am I crazy??

["Mark Chiddicks" <Mark.Chiddicks@descisys.com>]

What rules do you guys usually use for mad science realiability and malfunctions? The ones in the rulebook are silly - its way way to dangerous to use, yet we are meant to believe that railroads and factories are run using this stuff! Even a reliability 20 item explodes one time in 200 that its used!

I use 1d10, rerolling aces, for both reliability and malfunction results, which makes the stuff far more usable. Any better ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin L Stoner [mailto:stone1kl@cmich.edu]
Sent: Friday, 26 July 2002 12:27 a.m.
To: deadlands@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [DL] Re: Am I crazy??


> I regularly hear this, and can't see it being true except at very 
> low 
> levels. Yes, a full round of Deadlands Classic combat takes a 
> while, but 
> most mooks can be taken down with a good shot from even average 
> base 
> heroes... They don't have the hit points to absorb hits like D&D 
> characters.
> Also, D20 rules has a tendency to make everyone think 'junior 
> tactician' 
> and begin planning as such. If I run d20, or any game using a 
> battle 
> mat, I will definitely be enforcing maximum times to think about 
> actions 
> before losing them.

These characters do not absorb hit points, it works exactly like 
deadlands classic as in they are hit in the arm, leg whatever. And 
characters in my games do not become tacticians primarily due to how I 
run the game. Combat is not at all primary in my game and so nooone 
sits around planning what to do next. The characters are just now an 
average of 5th level and have only just discovered shooting undead in 
the head is more damaging to them. Long story short its not the rules, 
hell its never the rules, its the GM.

Quite to the contrary my posse runs combat very fast and efficient.
 
> I really don't want this to turn into the usual flame-war. 

Then stop using this forum to discuss how you feel about d20. This is a 
forum for lovers of deadlands to help one another however they can. 
Frankly I dont think any of us needs help coming over, we like the dark 
side just fine :).

Marshal Kevin Stoner


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