Law of the Gun OOC

[jemmus]

I just wanted to clarify that Gideon is a true independent character who speaks for himself and his own thoughts and ideas. He's not a mouthpiece for the GM for providing hints and clues to the players. In other words, he doesn't know any more than anyone else about the current situation or what to expect. On the other hand, he does know a good deal about the town Waco and the surrounding area, gambling, and saloon culture in general. And he has a general idea of what's said about various parts of Texas and its bigger cities.

[Thumper]

Is Jemmus waiting on All the TX PCs to weigh in on the camping decision prior to moving the story along? New info was given and only DT and Charlie spoke since then.

[jemmus]

Yeah, William's and Doos's posts are needed.

[Rex]

I thought I posted, I will check.

[jemmus]

Doss head down to the creek and breaks down to his skivvies and cleans himself up with the creek water, rubbing the water thru his hair.

"Come on Target, get in the water, you don't want to smell like dead varmint all day." Target [1d20]=17

Looks like it wont work

He refills his canteens and has Cloud Legend drink also.

Doos

Can I ask what Cloud Legend drink might be? Somethin from California, New York, or Bolivia? More importantly, does Doos have a proprietary ownership or a share of it? And how many bottles in his saddlebags? And how many unladen and laden swallows?

[ateno]

Doss head down to the creek and breaks down to his skivvies and cleans himself up with the creek water, rubbing the water thru his hair.

"Come on Target, get in the water, you don't want to smell like dead varmint all day." Target [1d20]=17

Looks like it wont work

He refills his canteens and has Cloud Legend drink also.

Doos

Can I ask what Cloud Legend drink might be? Somethin from California, New York, or Bolivia? More importantly, does Doos have a proprietary ownership or a share of it? And how many bottles in his saddlebags? And how many unladen and laden swallows?

Very nice, your right, most don't know my horses name. I'll mod the post.

+2 points.

[Thumper]

I'm surprise Charlie didn't fish the creek we camped by...and rolled some survival skill checks

[Rex]

I thought of it but decided against anything that could be considered distracting while he was on watch.

[ateno]

I will be away with a army buddy of some [cough] 40 odd[/cough] years. First time face to face since working at Tripler hospital in Hawaii. All day Friday and Saturday.

[jemmus]

You might be almost as old as me. 400+ years old in dog years Time sure does fly. Seems just yesterday I was only 300+.

[cybersavant]

who else would be playing Boot Hill? Started with D&D in 1980, Boot Hill was the first other game i bought

[Rex]

I don't remember the first time I played Boot Hill, sometime in the early 80's makes sense. I started playing D&D in 1979, so like everyone else I have been around a while, LOL.

[jemmus]

Me too, D&D in '79 or '80. I had Boot Hill and tried to GM it, but couldn't come up with any ideas for an adventure. Also 1e was really stingy with starting money for PCs. Couldn't even buy a horse. Of course we kids didn't dream of violating the TSR rules as written in stone and giving the PCs a little more cash.

We played Top Secret too, merging it with Steve Jackson Games Car Wars vehicular combat boardgame. That hybrid of wargame and RPG was hella fun.

[redwarrior]

All of the above, Gamma World, and Star Frontiers. Those were the days.

Some of the most fun in retrospect games were things like Villains & Vigilantes, DareDevils and Gangbusters. Many of them weren't robust enough for long campaigns, but were just fun. And, of course, Traveller, back when you could die in character creation!

[Rex]

Me too, D&D in '79 or '80. I had Boot Hill and tried to GM it, but couldn't come up with any ideas for an adventure. Also 1e was really stingy with starting money for PCs. Couldn't even buy a horse. Of course we kids didn't dream of violating the TSR rules as written in stone and giving the PCs a little more cash.

We played Top Secret too, merging it with Steve Jackson Games Car Wars vehicular combat boardgame. That hybrid of wargame and RPG was hella fun.

I must have had the opposite type of friends then you jemmus, we broke every rule written at one point or another. One of the great things about all the system we are talking about (except maybe Traveler, I haven't played that one) you can't actually break the system. We change the rules on the fly whenever for whatever reason. All good as long as everyone is enjoying themselves.

[jemmus]

My guys in high school were pretty competitive with each other, so no rule changes that might benefit somebody over somebody else. But my guys in college were more laidback.

[Grognardsw]

I hadn’t played Boot Hill before. I remember being intrigued about the Boot Hill conversion section in the 1e DMG, thinking it would be interesting to have a party show up in the old west.

Eight months ago I read a western/science fixtion novel. The planet was modeled on old west, with an off-worlder character getting into a predicament.



I like the genre mash-ups.

[Rex]

Genre mashups can be fun. I haven't read a good one in a while maybe time to see what is out there again.

[cybersavant]

also had Star Frontiers, Car Wars, Ogre, Traveller
and Paranoia

[Thumper]

I found this article tonight about Wells Fargo agents and bounties (including standard cash payments and recovered treasure splits). Our story is not that far off the mark!! This is supposedly official Wells Fargo history.

https://history.wf.com/outwitting-outlaws/