Re: [HoE] House Rules

["Paul Zichichi" <rook_7@hotmail.com>]

>Any more interesting house rules out there?
>
Well, actually, yes.  In reference to certain Edges and Hindrances, I 
usually only let them go at one per game.  Things like Grim Servant O' 
Death, Monster Magnet, Last Man Standing, Super Soldier, Omega Man and high 
point levels of Ailin' and Enemy.  I figure that these Edges and Hindrances 
are just WAY too powerful to allow to more than one character, not to 
mention that more than one "Last Man" can cause arguments over who's going 
to be left standing to fight the monster and multiple "Super Soldiers" makes 
any creature you throw out into so much hamburger.  Multiple "Monster 
Magnets" cause havoc as all of your critters still divide up evenly, and 
several "Grim Servants" turn every survivor settlement into a ghost town.

On a similar note, I have allowed ONE and ONLY one player in my HoE campaign 
to take both Veteran Edges.  He pulled the a Joker for his stats and we 
talked for about two days about the possibility that he could play his old 
Deadlands character.  I thought the idea had some merit to it, and we came 
up with one hell of a background problem before I got the Wasted West 
sourcebook.  His old character was Paranoid/Obsessive-Compulsive as a Vet of 
the Wierd West (he thought he was in a big game of tag! with the powers that 
be.  whe he was IT, he obsessed about finding a critter to tag, and once 
that was done, he became paranoid, fearing that he would BE tagged), and now 
he's REALLY got something to be paranoid about.  He's on Stone's hit list, 
as Stone killed him in 1897 and he didn't have the sense to stay dead.  Not 
to mention the fact that as a Harrowed survivor with both Edges, he has two 
conflicting sets of memories: one where he dies of old age with a family 
around him in the early 1930's and another where he dies, comes back and 
watches the world end.  How's THAT for an added disadvantage for you.

Laughing all the way to the morgue,

Paul Zichichi


"The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more 
proficient at genocide."

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