[DL] New to the game....

["Tyler Childers" <skylionlj@hotmail.com>]

My first exposure to DL was back in early 2002 when I picked up a copy of 
the Gurps:DL Weird West to round out my collection of Gurps sourcebooks. I 
fell in love with the setting from the start; a curious affection 
considering that I had no paticular love of the Western genre before getting 
into it. What I fell in love with was the Huckster. I have been gaming for 
nearly 20 years now--took time off for marriage, and have long been a 
devotee of magic (both real and fantasy) so the real world analogies of 
Hoyle and his Hucksters had instant appeal. I tried to run a Gurps DL game 
but it had no takers. This is kinda strange since I am now at the foothills 
of an ongoing Classic Deadlands campaign, and now everyone is jumping on. I 
have used the Big Sale goin on at Smith and Robards and have actively 
auctioned on eBay to get a sizable collection of Classic books going. Just 
today I got the leatherbound revised book in the mail (wouldn't even let one 
of my posse touch it!!!) and was a very happy Marshall.
Any tips for the new guy? My collection includes a passel of the Dime Novels 
which I plan on using for adventures plus a nice meta-plot cooked up by 
myself to fill in the gaps.
As for the posse, we have a British Huckster, a Mexican Priest (blessed), 
and a Austrian Mad Scientist. One more player has yet to make a character 
and she is split between the Ugly as sin, short as a dollarcake Nun (also 
blessed) and a Taoist-Martial Arts exorsist (also Blessed--with Enlightened 
to boot). If she goes with the Taoist, I am goint to have to call the the 
Ferner Posse (since the other three did take that hinderance)


Thanks for listening.

Tyler

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