Re: [HoE] Re: mutant monsters and misfits, killer klowns, iron oasis,

[Matthew Steflik <grifflik@stny.rr.com>]

Loki/Kirt wrote (I got it right this time):

> I'd like to counterpoint this, since I know PEG folks read the list.
> Many of
> the adventures are, IMHO, sub-par, and I'd rather use those pages for
> quality
> source material, as was done in the Junker book and the Cyborg book.

I don't really feel the adventures in the source books are "sub-par".
However, the problem I have when they get put into the sourcebooks (like
Brainburners, CoTA, etc.) is that my players BUY the sourcebooks.  This
is good for PEG, bad for me.  Now I don't want to imply that my players
are dishonest, but I can say with certainty that a couple have
"accidentally" read portions of the marshals only sections of these
books.  I think saying that they are familiar with the adventures
contained therein is a pretty safe bet as well.  This makes the
adventures "as is" a bit worthless to me.  One player actually said to
me regarding Brainburners, "Hey, did you see that brain eater in the
adventure in the back of the book?  That was pretty cool."  Sigh.
There's at least one in every group I guess.  And he wonders why I never
cut him any slack.

> Save the adventures for the
> Dime Novels, that way I don't have to buy 'em. In fact, the fact there
> is no
> adventure is part of what, IMHO, made the Junkers book and the Cyborgs
> books
> two of the best books in the series so far, those extra pages for
> material are
> a very good thing.

Actually, more dime novels would be great.  I like them a lot and my
players don't buy them.  Using the space in the source books for more
material instead would be preferential.  Again, I'm not saying the
adventures are bad just that the back of a sourcebook is perhaps the
wrong place to put them.  Maybe binding them together into one
"adventure book" would have been a better route to take.  Not a
practical suggestion, but there you go.

Matt Steflik
Master of Wahoo
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