I got a teamster to convert.

No you resemble it.


kturock: new ideas would be better, just picked up a shooter.

In reply to Strickland5 (msg #71):

Yeah and remember your character starts at seasoned rank.

Sadly, this game went away.

I've not given up on it yet... even though it grinded to almost a halt recently.

Which game are you talking about Oggy?

Since we're on the subject. Any Deadlands game going on?

Mine is link to another game

this one

link to another game

I'm wanting to play a DL:R game.  Anyone willing to run one?

 Strickland5's game is coming to a close. I'd like to use my current character (James Harlow Seasoned) or make a new one from scratch and get into another Deadlands Reloaded game. Anyone got room for a gunslick saddlebum?

In reply to shady joker (msg #80):

I have room in my game, though I'm running a Novice game.

link to another game

Another new deadlands game has started. I'm just a player but our Marshall is looking for two more players before getting things started.

link to another game

Deadlands: The Big Boom is the name of the game if the link doesn't work.

And two years later my DLR game is finally over.

Congratz!!
(Unusual to have a game survive that long.)
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Out of the original 5 players I had only 1 who stayed from start to finish. I recruited new players who helped me keep the game alive.

And I wouldn't have minded for the game to continue ;-)

In reply to derfinsterling (msg #86):

Probably could have gone longer but the main mission was more or less done and with it getting longer and longer between posts, I figured the game was wrapping up well enough to call it 'finished'.

Anyone willing at all to run a Deadlands Reloaded game?  I run Deadlands all the time for my group, but I never get a chance to play.

I'm restating my Sixguns & Spellslingers game and looking for 2-3 new players. Game is here: link to another game

yeah I'd totally be up for some DL! Been a while.

Sweet! Click the link and send me an RTJ!

Hey I was wondering if some of my fellow Reloaded lovers could comment on something.  I'm having a rather calm discussion with a good player about the Gatling pistol.

Basically, he argues it's a terrible weapon because:

A) it punishes you for using it, because the more often you fire it, the more misfires you get and nothing can ever change this
B) the only way to stop a misfire is to expend a bennie, consuming a valuable resource the game intends for you to use elsewhere such as for soak rolls
C) you basically have two options: shoot twice, or lay down suppressive fire
  1)  Shooting twice sucks because you often don't need to shoot twice, or there's no utility in it (for instance the first shot kills the guy and there's nobody else standing next to him you wish to shoot).  If you can regularly hit with a raise, you can often cause a wound with a single shot, so there's no point against non Wild Cards.
  2) Laying down suppressive fire sucks after it's done once because suppression followed by suppression does nothing, as the first one Shakens the victims, and the second does nada.  Player argues this is stupid because it's a lethal weapon not a supernatural power, and with all that ammunition flying around in the same template (consider if you will two Gatling pistols being fired at the same template simultaneously), somebody should get hit by an actual bullet even if it's by accident.
D) The pistol is so expensive most players won't have one.  It should do something cooler than what it does.

I have pointed out to him that:

A) Reloaded isn't really about kewl weapons, there's just not a lot of difference sometimes
B) Weapons are all of situational utility.  The right situation makes any of the weapons in the book suck or rock.
C) It's pretty nasty as is for what it allows.  Using his example of paired Gatling pistols, one could make a whole bunch of bad guys Shaken, and then you could fire two shots from the other one at anybody you wanted to.  That's pretty amazing flexibility and kind of nasty to boot.
D) He can carry additional weapons if the Gatling Pistol is too limited.

I was wondering if you all could help.  Is this weapon really not worth it, or is it awesome for a reason I'm not realizing, how has it impacted your games, etc.?

A, B - don't have the book handy, can't comment
C1 - if you shoot with a non-gatling gun and roll lousy damage, you are stuck.  With the gatling, sure, sometimes the 2nd attack is redundant, but often it is not, and it will finish off the guy.
C2 - So don't suppress, then suppress again.  for one think you don't have enough ammo unless you reloud, IIRC the gatling has a ROF of 2, so suppresion uses up 10 rounds, ROFx5 (or did they cahnge that in SWEX?)  supress, then shoot all the shaken guys next round
if you roll a 1 on your sprit roll vs suppresive fire, you take damage.  Granted, it's not very likely, it can happen.  also, if they are extra's, the 1 means they were shaken by fialing the spriit roll, so it's esier to take them out.  Also, supressive fire isn't "kill everything" fire, it's supposed to supress the enemyu, to stop them from shooting you.  making them Shaken does that
D - unless you loot one or are an Agent

That's an especially excellent point on the Spirit roll, one I hadn't considered.  I'll bring that up.

I think the problem is also perhaps that the player is assuming a really expensive weapon should have all the capabilities of the less expensive ones included.  I can see why you would think that but it's not necessarily true, especially given then nature of the "2x4" steampunk technology in place.

Perhaps I should also point out that if the Gatling pistol were just a better overall pistol, everyone would use one all the time.