RE: [DL] Starting a Game

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

Theres a hell of a lot more classic material than D20, for a start. 

It depends on how well your players adapt to new rules. If they want a nice simple comfortable system, then D20 (although the very fact the system IS familiar makes people tend to treat every game as if its D&D, and Deadlands isn't about dungeons and treasure!), but if they want something with its own unique flavour and a Western ambience built right into the rules, classic DL is the only way to go.



-----Original Message-----
From: Elliott Wong [mailto:ferricfoot@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2002 7:41 a.m.
To: deadlands-digest@gamerz.net
Subject: [DL] Starting a Game


I'm looking to start a Deadlands campaign in the fall
and would like some advice.

I own a copy of the original Deadlands the Weird West
RPG (1996) and know that there's now a Player's
Handbook and a Marshall's Book as well. To further
complicate matters, I know that there is a d20
conversion of the rules as well.

So... what should I do? Run a game with the books that
I have? Get the updated rules and run that? Get the
d20 books and go that route?

I have not actually run a Deadlands game but have
gamed extensively with xD&D, Palladium, Twilight 2000,
and Call of Cthulhu.

My players will be relatively new to roleplay and will
not know the Deadlands system at all and will probably
have some knowledge of D&D 3E.

Having gone through the rulebook, I think the use of
playing cards and poker chips is charming and adds
character to the game (still not sure how hexes work,
but I'll re-read the section). Don't know if d20
excludes these devices but it would be a shame if they
did.

Thanks in advance for the input.



Elliott

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