Re: [HoE] Guns in your campaign

[Øyvind Hillestad <johilles@online.no>]

Matthew Weaver-Uzelac wrote:

> On of the things that has always tickled my sick sense of interest in
> end-of-the-world-games is how people are armed.  I was just rereading Hell
> or High Water and I noticed the Nuevo Baton Rouge had less than a half a
> dozen guns.
>
> My point of interest is this, what types of guns are common in you game?
> Not just the PC's but the militias, the bandits and all the nice folk you
> have schlepping around your game.  Do you generally give fortified towns
> MilSpec weapons?  How common are the "civilian" weapons in your game.  I
> really don't like having every member of my Posse armed with Assault
> Rifles/SMG's.  What do you all think/do/believe?
>

Another thing to keep in mind, is that the harder you make it for them to
survive, the heavier they want to pack, if you throw a dozen blackhats at them
every fight (you prolly dont but anyway) they will find out that their pistols
dont pack the pucnh they wish.

>
> matt
>
> "Some say the world
> will end in fire,
> Some say in ice,
> From what I tasted of desire
> I hold with those who favor fire
> but if it had to perish twice
> I think I know enough of hate
> to say that for destruction
> ice is also great
> and would suffice."
>         -Robert Frost
>
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