Re: [HoE] assorted [HOPLER]

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: B.D. Flory <bflory@frontiernet.net>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 10:35 AM
Subject: [HoE] assorted [HOPLER]


>My posse started character creation last night for "From the Ashes", and it
>gave me time to isolate and analyze some big concerns I have with the DL:
>HoE game world.

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I have to agree with some of your statements but not all of them, but that's
not what I'mm going to call you out for.

> Finally, I come to the last (and possibly most important) complaint:
>Killer Tomatoes.  The complaint is more general than that, but I find
>killer tomatoes are the symptom most emblematic of the underlying disease.
>Stuff like this simply does *not* belong in Hell on Earth.
> Right about now, I can hear many of you cracking your knuckles, ready to
>lay into me for making a blanket statement like this.  I'm sure I'll
>receive plenty of messages along these lines: "Who do you think you are,
>coming in here and telling us what does and doesn't belong in the HoE
>universe?!  We'll play the game however we want!" Guess what, kids?
> You're welcome to it.
> But Killer Tomatoes and other assorted silliness are not out of place just
>because *I* say so.  I'm just another guy who plays Deadlands.  Killer
>Tomatoes and such are out of place because they're inconsistent.  Because
>until now, the Deadlands universe has not been a Saturday morning cartoon.
>And with a dime novel entitled "Killer Clowns" coming down the pipe, it
>looks like it's going to get worse.


I run my game with a good mix of gritty life and death true roleplaying
moments as well as the mixing of some good old fashion campyness. After all
that's what got me looking at Deadlands in the first place and then Hell on
Earth. "The Spaghetti Western...with meat!" Any one remember that? The
preamble to main coarse of Campy Western Roleplaying with a Horror Shake on
the side! Killer Tomatoes can make the players grown when you tell them it's
coming but the posse damn well need to take it seriously or they'll get
chomped!

Christopher "Making my posse fight aliens in Roswell" Merrill
W.H.A.T.T. Member