RE: [HOE] DL periphernalia

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Watson
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: hoe@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [HOE] DL periphernalia
> 
> 
<SNIPS>
> >        And as someone who just recently had to get a HoE campaign 
> > together from scratch, I'll say that my #1 problem with all 
> of this was 
> > that these items are not sold in the same place.
> 
> My group had all of this lying around ;-) Maybe we just have 
> more junk than 
> most people. hehehe I can imagine it would be difficult to 

Us too.  Heck, we played DND for years, and we've all collected bags of
dice.  Plus, if you throw fireballs or flamestrikes, handfulls of at
least d6 and d8 are already a must.

<SNIPS>

> >      It's a fun system, but give credit where credit is 
> due.  HoE is 
> > good
> > for the mood of the game, but the system is very complex (A 
> thug shoots 
> > at your Templar, dice will be rolled five times before the 
> attack is 
> > resolved, To hit, location, damage, stun check, wind loss).
> >     A goblin takes a swing at your paladin, two dice are 
> rolled, a D20 
> > for hit and a D4 for damage, and if you roll them at the 
> same time, it 
> > takes even less time.

But if your paladin has 80 hit points, your goblin's d4 takes 30 or 40
hits to bring the paladin down.  Hit the templar 30 or 40 times with a
knife and you've been stabbing a corpse for 25 to 35 of the hits.  SO
maybe the rounds take abit longer, but you often have much fewer of
them.

Our group plays both systems -- each is very fun for it's genre, but
seems out of place being used for the other setting: d20 for DND, DL for
Western.

But that's us!