Re: [DL] Re: [Savage_Worlds] Re: Savage Deadlands

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  I'm inclined to agree with you.  I went out and
bought Savage World after talking to Shane at GenCon.
  I think Savage World in and of itself is fine, but
it just doesn't have the same feel to it.  However, in
all fairness to SW I haven't had the chance to run or
play it just yet, although I have watched a session
and read the rules.
  I'm still terribly disapointed with the treatment of
Lost Colonies, I mean we where so hyped to play that
back when Pinnacle first started talking about it.
Then we get this HOE supplement when we where hoping
to get another system like HOE was to Deadlands.  It
felt like it was just slapped together to placate
those who wanted it, not bad writing mind you, just
not what we expected.  So today it with the so called
companion sit collecting dust on the shelf.
  Currently I'm running a Hell on Earth (Classic)
campaign and luvin' it, later we'll switch back to
Deadland (Classic), which is my favorite of the two.
  Just my 2 cents.
                                 Horace Black


--- james wallace <yelost1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ok here are my two cents, first sw does not suck,
> but i think the reason 
> that everyone is so hot to trot about it is that it
> is so much faster and 
> simpler than the classic system.  which it was
> designed to be.  That being 
> said, sw pretty much boils down to deadlands for
> those that are challenged 
> by the complicated nature of the original system, or
> dummies for short. not 
> that is a bad thing there were times when the
> original system caused me to 
> have a strong desire to drive to peg inc. and
> throttle shane.  i just see sw 
> as a more advance d20, feel free to disagree,  great
> for combat cause it is 
> so fast, my gm likes it cause he can whip up a big
> bad in about as long as 
> it takes me to touch myself in my special no no
> place and make myself feel 
> very happy, i just don't think it keeps the feel of
> the DL setting very 
> well.  i mean look at the original system, which i
> will be abbreviating as 
> OS or CDL as i chose from hence forth, If you saw a
> group of players playing 
> CDL you would see bunch of guy playing poker and
> rolling dice a whole lot. 
> probably saying to yourself damn its a new kind of
> one eyed beer drunk texas 
> draw that no one told me about.  In the OS there
> were playing cards, poker 
> chips and every dice under the sun.  We should have
> been ice skating in hell 
> before this system worked, we should have place it
> in the what the hell 
> category right next to C.S. MaCraken's classic world
> of 
> Cyni"umber-munchkin-ness"bar.  IT SHOULD NOT HAVE
> WORKED !!!!!!!!! but it 
> did and beautifully and captured the feel of the
> game perfectly.  SW 
> doesn't,  i think it cant deal with certain arcane
> powers very well, mainly 
> because of the mechanics that drive SW, and it seems
> to have been designed 
> for the massive dungeon crawls you would find in
> D&D, which is fine, i have 
> no problem converting D&D over to SW, I just don't
> like the SW system for 
> the DL environment.
> 
> sincerely
> 
> W.B. Prescott
> 
> "gee mister blake what do we do now?"
> "You go get a doctor."
> "Why?"
> "So he can fix you leg wound."
> "what leg wound?"
> BANG!!!!!!!
> "That leg wound."


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