RE: [HoE] Pegs Game Books

["Patrick Phalen" <pphalen@gti.net>]

> >That's your opinion and you're entitled to it no matter how wrong it
> may be
>
> Im guessing you didnt start with Deadlands ver1 and watch how
> it changed over the years (Im talking game mechanics).  By
> the time Lost Colony comes out I believe the system will
> be complete.

I *definitely* did start from the beginning.  I owned the softback, waited
for Q&tD, waited even longer for BotD...

The basic game mechanics have remained unchanged.  They've only made minor
tweaks (like fannin, autos, shotguns, chips instead of bounty) which amount
to 2 or 3 pages out of the hundreds of pages that they have produced.  I
applaud PEG for constantly re-evaluating the game and making it work better.
Compare this to a company like TSR that constantly contradicts itself,
supplement to supplement, or a company like White Wolf who puts out a first
edition as practically a play-test version...

Plus, none of the changes that PEG have made were totally necessary.  The
game worked perfectly "out of the chute"  if anything Shane and CO. are a
bunch of worry warts who are constantly trying to make the game we love a
bit better.

The only thing they are doing better for HoE is getting the product out the
door in a timely, consistent manner.  Deadlands took a year and a half to
get the first four books out.  They have done it for HoE in 7 months...


Patrick