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Monday, June 19th, 2006 05:45 pm
Mwa-ha.
Mwa-ha-ha-ha.
It's mine, all mine.
My precious.
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Mwa-ha-ha!

(Yes, that is only 64 pages of 8-1/2" x 11" paper halved and trimmed. No, I don't want to talk about how much shipping from France was. Mine!)
Monday, June 19th, 2006 11:04 pm (UTC)
Awesome. I'm going to participate in an imminent wild west/Cthulu mythos game myself! Yay!
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 03:53 am (UTC)
Coolness. A/particular system? LARP or tabletop?

Deadlands, of late, is simply making me happy. I grabbed the Hell on Earth book as well--what happened 200 years later--and there is a certain innocent appeal to shooting monsters and scrounging for bullets in Hell--

--hrm. Must recommend this to [livejournal.com profile] jl_williams, as well.
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 01:35 pm (UTC)
I"ve played the Hell on Earth setting. It was a good time. We ran a 3 person shipping company with a big rig. Making runs between towns for big money.

I think it better not to mention which system we're using, it may taint your opinion of me. ;) We'll say that its table top and leave it at that.
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 03:19 pm (UTC)
Oh, Brian. D20? I shall just have to pretend you have lost your 3d8s and are making do.

I am thinking I may whip up a character sheet, see what'd happen to Velvet van Sloane's descendant in the Wasted West... Am *definitely* contemplating junker. There's just something about beating the hell out of manitou to make them get things done for you that appeals.

John explained a particular point of the setting to me as follows:
"I think you'll like the Law Dogs."
"Good guys?"
"Mostly. Society's broken down, right? So they're basically itinerant judges, bringing justice to the wastelands..."
[pause as it slowly dawns]
"You mean... I get Cthulhu, and Deadlands, *and* Judge Dredd *all at once?*" *delight*
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 03:42 am (UTC)
I'd hate for you to think the wrong thing, but to add insult to injury we do not, amoungst all of us at the table, own any other version of the setting except D20. We're making do.


If it makes any difference we do manage a decent Cthulu larp now and then. ;)
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 10:50 am (UTC)
Given that, IIRC, I needed to leave my home country to lay hands upon anything other than D20, I cannot really fault you for that.

How much of the system has D20 kept? Do you still get poker chips for doing cool things? Does character creation and combat initiative go by drawing playing cards? Do hucksters draw poker hands when casting spells? How do you determine head shots (it's a game wth zombies, I have to assume it matters)? (Would this be a good time to mention that John has a free and legal copy of the PDF for the Player's Guide, which is 2/3 of what you need?)

Not giving you a hard time, just honestly curious.