Re: [DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20030417-1

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 02:25  PM, Jeff Shoffner wrote:
> I seem to recall CoC doing something like this with with regards to
> characters not losing Sanity to due to common (common??? What kind of 
> CoC
> game are you playing anyway!!!!???) critters.  In  order to convert 
> this
> idea over, you could probably make it where you take the varmit's 
> Terror
> Level (say, 7 for this discussion) and for every time the the player
> successfully makes a Guts roll v. this varmit, reduce by one until it
> doesn't have a Terror Level towards that player.  Of course, that adds 
> in a
> whole bunch of accounting for either the players or marshal, but that 
> was
> the main problem in CoC.  Also, this bonus only adds up when the 
> player is
> successful in making a Guts check--failure does nothing.

I'm currently running HoE, and generally require Terror rolls the first 
time the group meets a creature, and only additional rolls if they see 
it again and it's actually scary.... Requiring rolls for my posse of 3 
grit heroes against Walin Dead is kind of ridiculous, when they've 
nuked or waded through dozens at a time before...

> Allen, on the discussion of the hindrance Yeller, I'd have to point 
> out that
> the hindrance really says nothing about the player being a coward--it 
> just
> states that folks perceive you as being one.  of course, I could've 
> read it
> wrong.

INteresting point...