Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

Hey, Kai Tave, long time no see; where ya been?

Jeff S


-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Tave <kaitave@harborside.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony


>Dude, seriously.  Paragraphs are your friend.
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>I wasn't too crazy about The Unity either, but what did you honestly
expect?
>I knew it was gonna be focused on combat without even picking the book up.
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>--Kai Tave
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>>I'm not saying we didn't have trouble in some parts or that the adventure
>>was way to easy I'm saying that Hell on Earth got turned into a Hack and
>>Slash game just like D&D. I mean look at the adventure and show me one
>place
>>where combat isn't the answer to everything. There realy isn't one. Second
>>of all It's like a bad action movie I mean We fought thousands of muties
>and
>>survived then we fought thousands of black hats and survived then we
>thought
>>a platoon of black hats and an automaton and guess what we survived Then
we
>>got to go into denver and deliver supplies to the resistance, fly out
>>looking for help from the east fight thousands of walking dead ride back
to
>>colorado inside a worm, get caught inbetween Ravens army of undead and the
>>Reckoners and carry the Reckoners in a little box to communicate with
>comsat
>>wich gives us tests that while puzzling at first you realize are quite
>>pointless because anyone who lived before the last war would know the
>>answer, Then we get to travel through hell in A ship powered by a demon
>that
>>made us sacrifice one of our own members to get it up and running just so
>we
>>can fight more monsters and crash land on banshee which supposedly knocks
>>all of us out and for some reason the reckoners just leave us alone when
>>they crawl out of their box even though we're going to be the ones
>>responsible for them losing their power. I don't care how much work our
>>marshal did on that IT still couldn't have been a good adventure unless
you
>>entirely re-write it in which case you just wasted money on the adventure.
>>And the annoyed me the most is what is supposedly the most important plot
>>device in Hell on Earth even though he has only killed one wendigo hunter
>>since Hell on Earth started wasn't even in the adventure. WTF is up with
>>that i mean the Unity didn't solve anything it just turned our entire
group
>>into sykers and let us figure out that we can get back to Hell on earth
>>through the hunting grounds. I actually look for a little more than combat
>>in an adventure not much more but a little and the Unity has nothing but
>>kill this or kill that from front to back and kind of pissed me off
because
>>I was looking for answers and the only answers it gives is who the
>>Harbringer is and where hellstromm's been since the end of the world. So I
>>ask what was good about this adventure just one thing that was good.
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