Re: [DL] Doomtown, Gomorra, etc.

[DariusHellstrome@aol.com]

I enjoyed the Doomtown book alot.  I'm in the process of moving my posse to there in the my game.

Greg

In a message dated 11/21/2002 3:45:13 PM Central Standard Time, sosentinel@adelphia.net writes:


> At 03:31 PM 11/21/2002, Mr. Patrick Purcell wrote:
> >I feel overall, though, that the CCG had too much
> >influence on the game world.  Maybe I should take a
> >different perspective and be glad that they have all
> >sorts of different fun stuff to write about, but there
> >was a time (is it STILL happening) that every book
> >thrown out was related to Doomtown....Doomtown or
> >Bust, Ghostbusters, the Collegium, etc, etc.
>
>          Under John Goff's tenure as Line Developer, there was a concerted 
> effort to link the RPG and the CCG, with the hope that fans of both would 
> benefit and get turned on to the other if they were already into one.
>          IMHO, some really fine books came out of this period (e.g., The 
> Black Circle, Ghost Busters Rain o' Terror) and at least one really bad one 
> (Dead Presidents) when the link (and other factors) overruled good sense. 
> Still, I'll never forget:
>          John Goff: "We want you to do an adventure that wraps up all the 
> Confederate plot threads."
>          Me: "Awesome!"
>          John: "It starts in Doomtown."
>          Me: ?!?!?!?
>
>          :-)
>
>
> Deo Vindice,
> Mr. Christopher L. McGlothlin, M.Ed.