Re: [DL] The Scart Table

[Frank <frank.wisnes@student.uib.no>]

I have kinda the same problem. A few of them wants the horror version, a 
few wants to be heroes all the time. One player actually left the group 
because he didn't have the motivation to try and give horror a chance.. 
more power to him. The way it's now, is that I sometimes try to make a 
scary mood, and those who are interested in that say I succeed, but usually 
someone can't control himself and jokes everything away which pretty much 
ruins it. I've discussed it with one of them who brought the problem up, 
and I told him to talk it over with the others about it then come to me 
with what they decide. To get in the right mood takes the whole group, and 
if just even one player keeps ruining the mood with jokes and comments 
every 5 minutes I see little point in trying to build up any.

One of my players is very good at playing it out when his character get 
scared or freaked out though. Like last time, when his character noticed 
his unknown mothers (who died during birth so he was raised by his father 
alone without knowing her side of the family) first name under a painting 
in the old whateley mansion in Salt Lake, he, after having read the note I 
handed to him describing this, actually ate the note.

Oh well.. maybe this player-talk will bring some changes as 3 of 5 players 
now really want the horror experience this time. But that I'm gonna leave 
them to sort out.

- Frank -



>I use the Scart Table from the Marshall's Screen. Unfortunately, my
>posse doesn't like to play Deadlands the way I do and we have a hard
>time compromising. I like a "darker" deadlands where things are really
>scary and the posse has to use wagons full of ingenuity to beat the
>baddie. They like to be classic western heroes who don't get scared of
>anything and bull-head their way along, being as stoic against a group
>of banditos as much as a horde of zombies. This discrepancy makes the
>Scart Table hard to use. They would rather play their fear as
>motivating them to defeat the villain and I'd rather use the table as
>is, to make it harder. I hates me posse, I does!
>
>Jim