Re: [HoE] One small complaint.... (SHANE)

[brown@successsrv.success.gatech.edu (Mark Gravitt)]

Sorry to chime in with a "me too" complaint, but I feel that Mr. Davis
has a valid point. The 'pop culture references' are both distracting and
disturbing.  I will confess that, upon reading about Silas's vegetable
garden, I found myself doing something I've only done once before in my
life -- I threw the book across the room.  (The last time that happened 
was a decade ago.) For the first time, I felt I'd wasted money on 
a PEGInc product.

I love Deadlands with a Passion (Vestrial, for the ED fans out there) and have 
been running the game almost continuously since it came out; In addition, I
was one of those annoying folks who called Pinnacle to order the special Hell 
On Earth kits before they were ready to take the orders. :-) Hell On Earth has 
a great deal of promise. The Wasted West, Brainburners, and Children of the 
Atom built on that promise quite well,  but Road Warriors was a very decided 
disappointment.

Granted - the line between "camp" and "cheese" is a fine one, and I trust
that the good folks in Virginia will take comments such as Mr. Davis's 
(and mine) as "constructive criticism" rather than an outright condemnation
when that line is crossed.

Mark Gravitt


[No I will _not_ say what the other book that went flying across the room 
a decade ago was.... :-)   ]