Re: [HOE] Re-re-re-re: Unity Spoilers in L.C.

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On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 02:51  PM, David L. Hoff wrote:

> Matt Crawford wrote:

Oh... Potential spoilers within...

>> Half my HOE posse was at Gencon with me and some bought LC.
>> Based on this thread I spread the word not to read it without
>> checking in with me first.  Now I've given it a hurried
>> once-over and it seems that the only real Unity spoilers are
>> early in chapter 5, "Banshee Screams," which is in the Marshals'
>> territory anyway (although there's no warning splash page like
>> other books have had).  Have I got it covered?

The lack of splash page is kind of annoying.

> Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation.
> What I remember from my paging through my friends copy was that in the 
> marshals section, there is mention of the Unity crash landing, and 
> about the now empty box and what had been brought to Banshee in it. I 
> do not own the book myself, so cannot check page numbers or anything. I 
> guess the reason I consider LC to be "spoiler" material is because my 
> players have figured out that The Unity adventure does involve the ship 
> and going to Banshee. They do not know why they would be going, what 
> they would be taking with them, or that once they get there they cannot 
> simply fly the ship back home again. :-)

I just got my copy of LC yesterday. (On an unrelated note to this rant, 
go Pinnacle! Y'all rock...)

Skimmed through it, and on first glance I'm sticking with my origional 
plan of requesting my players not read any copies they pick up at the 
moment, although I may let the posse's resident Syker read some chapters 
since he served on Banshee.

The color work on Unity was a big hint... the HOE green fading to the LC 
purple.

I have to wonder though... After looking at the Pinnacle release 
schedule on the web, is this it? Will LC only be expanded via the 
Epitath? I'm wondering if this is part of Pinnacle's planning to survive 
the current weird situations int he gaming market (d20 & the current 
economy) by filling a long-advertised whole in the most economical way.

Otherwise, I do like that it's truly a new setting. Whereas HOW tended 
to make alternate backgrounds to fill the established roles from 
Deadlands Classic, LC is truly different (except for Sykers and the 
occasional 'borg) with less common ABs and no real 'translations.' As 
people have said, Doomsayers and Templars filled the role of the 
Blessed, while Sykers filled the role of the Hucksters, and Junkers were 
the descendants of the Mad Scientists.

Now we've gone, interestingly, from Mad Scientists (free-form, but 
unreliable, construction of anything) through Junkers (More restricted 
but still open construction with increased reliability) to Mutes 
(Replication, nor invention, but as reliable as any object.

I'm interested, and hoping for an LC 'world book' to expand it like DL 
and HOE both received. Even if PEG is trying to avoid doing a bunch of 
niche class books, there's room to explore the Anouk tribes.

One of my posse members is hoping to land the Unity on a Reckoner's 
head. He's in for a surprise...
--
Brett

LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER 
MAN? (Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett)