[HoE] Re: Deadlands- the 60's

[PJB333@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/3/99 11:52:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
hoe-owner@gamerz.net writes:

What I was considering-
1. For Arcane Abilities, you still have a few of all the old abilities 
(hucksters, blessed, etc.). The Sykers would be just beggining. I figure the 
hippies would have some sort of arcane abilities (albiet non-violent). Maybe 
something involving computers, because technology is always ahead a while. I 
was also thinking about an abilty revolving around Psychology, as the works 
of Jung and Freud were getting more and more accepted.
2. There were some cults (Manson), perhaps the John Birch Society might have 
something behind it, as well as the Black Panthers. God alone knows what kind 
of crazy stuff is going down in the CIA (and the Confederate equivalent).

I'll think of more soon

Peter Berard
The Jolly Gringo


> the 1960s, IIRC, was after the WW II period, and before the 1990s (duh, now 
>  there is some insight!) so it is a VERY quiet period 
>  supernatural-wise.  The raging Abominations have faded post world war II, 
>  and the cult era has not yet risen.  It is probably as close to real 
>  history as you can get in Deadlands, or so it seems from the HoE 
>  supplements I have read.  according to Cyborgs, the weird west-ish era 
>  closed with the second world war, and things were quiet till the cults 
>  showed up near the millennium.  Of course, this does not mean there was no 
>  magic, or nothing to do...