RE: [DL] What is next for the weird west (Shane)?

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

>I am a little worried because I did not get the response I hoped for on
this
>thread.
>
>The response I hoped for was a letter from Shane saying "Don't worry
partner
>- we have a lot of good stuff planned for the Weird West. We are just a
>little down on manpower this spring due to Savage Worlds, but just wait...
>We have a lot of interesting releases for DL:WW planned later this year"
and
>possibly some details about these planned releases.
>
>Come on Shane - tell us that you haven't forgotten all about your cowboys.


He hasn't, but he's already stated that most future Deadlands support will
be handled in the Epitaph.  Here is part of a message from Shane on that
topic.


>And that's why the DL lines have to condense down to the Epitaph. I
>can still support all three lines this way and do it in a tighter, more
>efficient method. Otherwise, no more DL books at all.
>
>Fortunately, the Epitaph does sell quite well, and now that I've upped
>the words per page and reduced the margins set by certain past graphic
>designers who are now at WOTC (!!), you'll get a lot more bang for your
buck.


And then later on he sent an overview of the contents for Epitaph 4.


>Epitaph #4 Contents:
>The Big Picture (page 2)
>By Shane Hensley
>
>New Rules for Deadlands D20 (page 7)
>By Shane Hensley & Michael Kirk
>
>Fort 51 (page 13)
>By Eric Avedissian and Teller
>
>This Ain't Texas (page 39)
>By Dave Ross & Rob Lusk
>
>The Great Maze D20 Conversion (Page 49)
>By Mark Metzner, Eric and Trevor Lee, and Brian Maloney
>
>High Noon on the High Seas (page 67)
>By Rob Lusk and the Flatlands Game Group
>
>Night of the Ronin (81)
>By Christopher McGlothlin, M. Ed.
>
>A Cut Above
>By Steven Walmsley, Brian Leybourne, and the Deadlands listserv!
>
>Junkers 2.0 (103)
>By Shane Hensley, from the system developed for Hell On Earth D20 by Fred
Jandt
>
>Knowledge is Power (109)
>By Clint Black
>
>Range Wars Solo! (117)
>By Tony Van


I'd say there's some "good stuff" for the Weird West in there for everybody.
Especially, that second to last article; I hear it's really good.  ;-)



Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."