Re: [HoE] Re: hoe-i'll miss my boxes

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 11:28 AM 4/14/00, you wrote:
>There were a couple others I did not care for (Devil's Tower III and 
>Something About a Sword I would not recommend to anyone)
>
>Really I'm Curios Why.  I Didn't Think Either of those Adventure were that 
>bad. Maybe it's because I like the game so much that I try to like every 
>product even if there not good. The Only book that I had any problem with 
>was the Junker Man Cometh.  Its good but I think the Device system is 
>really clunky and its a pain to read.
>
>
>Dan Sulin
Devils Tower III was, to me, not worth the boxed set.  If they had an 
adventure and setting info less intertwined, I could see it, but it is 
tough to use the Crossbreeds and Devil's Tower for anything other then the 
adventure the way it is run together.

That is not, however, my biggest gripe.  FoF was just bad.  The hook was 
bad "Hi, I am from the Future" and the fact it was badly railroaded 
contributed.  Worst of all was the near invincible NPC vs. the Invincible 
stone.  One group I know of (but was not it)actually stopped  and played 
poker while it went on, figuring Jackie could handle anything.  (the GM 
started making her miss and fumble, which was a bad move given she had 
never not killed with one shot the whole time previously).  The fact is, 
the PCs being their is near pointless.  Jackie will succeed or fail without 
them.  (not to mention a fight which broke out when someone used Achilles 
Heel on stone, and the GM would not tell his weakness).

This does not suprise me.  I thought they exaggerated before I bought 
it.  Now that I have it, I see it as a shining example of how not to do an 
adventure.

Something... was just not a very good adventure.  It seemed an excuse to 
drop the sword into the world. but this has already been addressed, and I 
am tired.

TBS