Re: [DL] (Off topic) an idea for a new RPG alter Earth world

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Hi,
    A couple of suggestions.  First off, as a historian, I would strongly
suggest you do your research on the real history of the time and pay very
close attention to the fact that in essence the outcome of the war was due
to the intervention of European powers.  Try to understand how the forces at
work in Europe play out in the New World and just how "British" Washington
and company actually were.  Furthermore, you might want to expand your focus
to look at the other European colonies in the New World, i.e. the colonies
that later united to become Canada, Latin America and the Carribbean.  Try
not to focus just on what is now the U.S.  If you really want to have fun,
why move up the date of the South America revolutions?
    The reason I am saying this is that one of my private peeves about the
background of Deadlands is that it downplays the power of the British Empire
to an absurd extent without giving sufficient information as to why.
Admittedly, the focus of the game is concentrated in the American West and
therefore far removed from the Limeys, but then the game also has the French
Foreign Legion and Chinese martial artists.  Therefore, I would like to
suggest that you try and get a feel for the true historical background
before you invent a new one.
    My second suggestion is you start deviating from real history at the
Battle of Chesapeake Bay.  The British lost the battle to the French owing
to some terrible stupidity.  They could easily have won.  Had they done so,
Cornwallis would not have lost at Yorktown.
    My third suggestion is that you remember war is very costly.  The Ancien
Régime in French went broke paying for the American Independence and the
French Revolution was the result.
    My two cents worth.
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Vault Keeper <vaultkeeper@dupuis.shawbiz.ca>
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Date : September 13, 2002 7:35 AM
Objet : [DL] (Off topic) an idea for a new RPG alter Earth world


Hi fellow Deadland and Deadland Hell One Earth fans and players, I need your
opinion on a RPG idea that I've preposed to Pinnacle.


The RPG take place in a alter Earh of 18th century America, during the time
of the Revoultion in the year of 1786.

Both sides are fighting tooth and nail, the war is still going strong.


Now before you people point out this isn't a rip off of Deadlands, in that
world it's a all powerful evil force called the Reckoners that's resonable
for the weird west, while in this world it's one part supernatural evil, one
part human evil. I don't like relying on the superntaural too much, example
of this is Benedict Arnold turncoat act succeed. Also each side in the
Revolution has European help, Like the French, Germans, Spain, and other
royal powers.

You see the American Revolution is seen by the other European powers as a
testing ground for beliefs and a chance to one up each other, also this was
cause in our world of the French Revolution and thr rise of Napoleon.


So what do you think?, please give me your honest opinions.



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