[HoE] Derivativeness of HoE

[IronPen@aol.com]

I haven't read CoTA or Road Warriors yet, but I have to say I'm perfectly
content with the HoE material I've seen so far (Brainburners, Wasted West,
main book).  I agree that some of the material we could do without, and the
space could have been put to better use, but at the same time most of it is
still the same PEG quality stuff.  The thing is, do you ever really use most
of the information in the published books?  I sure don't.  I like to write my
own adventures, and I think the books are just fun to read and lend flavor to
the game.  That is, they give oyu an idea of what HoE is supposed to be like.
I mean sure there's occasionally something too good to pass up, but most of
the material is just there for flavoring purposes.  (Is 'flavoring' a word?)
Anyhow, I personaly think that, used sparingly, references to things we all
know and love (or love to hate) are kinda neat.  As long as I'm kept up to my
neck in useful material (new spells & rules, a killer storyline, great flavor
material), I could almost care less about useless extra stuff.  I mean, I'd
rather be ab;e to laugh it up over a cheezy stab at WotC then be told about
the inner working of some obscure biker gang I'll never use in my campaigns.
Additionally, the HoE library on the PEG website is constantly expanding, and
I can pull ideas off of the listserver pretty often.  As long as I don't run
out of fresh material, I really can't complain.

-jesse