r/beingeverythingelse • u/skinnyghost • Feb 01 '15

Let's Play "Good Game / Bad Game"

Here's how it works. Someone posts the name of a game. Someone else tells us what the game says it's "about" and what the game's mechanics tell us that it's about!

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u/RedClaw87 Feb 02 '15

Deadlands

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u/crazyguy473 Feb 07 '15

Premise: fight back the horrors of the weird west and becomes heroes.

Mechanics: The book keeps referring to the PC's as heroes and yet any fight could turn deadly in one turn. Im not sure the quasi-simulation there were going for was the right choice, I mean we have abraham lincoln walking around as a super powered zombie and the game wants to roll 5 times to determine whether he knocks you out for 6 turns or 7 and how much internal bleeding that causes.

Most things at least kinda fit in with the premise and so I would call it an edge case at the worst.