Road to Nowhere

[tracker7]

Know what I did on my lunch break today?  I made a character for Deadlands: Hell on Earth.  That was a good use of my time.  I'll go over my work tomorrow morning and post the character to the rest of the play-by-post group, and hopefully we'll get that game underway real soon.

The Deadlands lines all appealed to me, but HoE was far and away my favorite.  I've been interested in post-apocalyptic stories and settings since I was very young, thanks mostly to John Christopher's White Mountains books.  With HoE, I get a post-apoc horror Western, shot full of craziness and opportunity for genuine world-saving and all the other good stuff I want out of a game.

The original Weird West setting for the Deadlands line spawned a pair of crossovers with other game lines.  Early on, there was a jaunt into the Cthulhu Mythos, followed by a trip from the Weird West to the Savage West of, no kidding, White Wolf's Werewolf: Wild West.  The latter was possibly the single best thing to come out of the W:WW run.

Comments

[kingyak.livejournal.com]

The true question: did you manage to find some use for the hole that WW paid someone to drill through a perfectly good book?

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Alas, no. Tegyrius is the only person I know who actually owns a copy of that silly thing, and I've only leafed through it.

I figure if you were running out of space on the bookshelves, you could hang the book from a convenient nearby nail.

[kingyak.livejournal.com]

I've got one, too--to their credit, White Wolf used to be very good about sending out advance copies of new core books--I've got a handful of them from Greenfield, including a copy of Aeon (the artist now known as Trinity)that hasn't been Trinity-ized (back page torn out and stickers plastered over the title).

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Nice score there!

Man, I dig on Trinity. Once the newlyweds get back, I'm hoping that our game gets back underway.

[kingyak.livejournal.com]

Looks like it could be a lot of fun. I made sure to keep my copy in the original condition on the off chance I can sell it to some fanboy eventually.