Re: [HoE] Some non-DP comments and questions...

["Damon Harper" <nomad74@hotmail.com>]

>Regarding Fear Levels . . . why are they as high as they are in most of 
the
>Wasted West?  A bunch of Deadlands, and high Fear Levels everywhere 
else.
>It seems that in the 200 years or so since the Weird West, people would 
have
>gotten use to horrors, undeath, magic, etc...  I can see why the 4 
Horsemen
>and Nuclear War would frighten people, but not monsters, etc...

   Nuclear War and the Reckoners are the main reason for the high fear 
levels.  After seeing North America leveled with Nukes, I suspect my 
fear would rise as well.  Not to mention all the abominations that 
sprung forth due to the radiation.  As a child of the 80s and late 70s, 
the threat of nuclear war was very scary to me...

  Are
>fearmongers still active in HoE?  The HoE rulebook mentions 
abominations.

  There's a difference? Anything that causes a fear level to rise is a 
fearmonger- this includes abominations.

>It seems like it would be hard to scare a survivor of 200 years of 
horror,
>and several years of Hell.

   You are assuming everyone in Deadlands lives on to be in HoE.  This 
isn't the case.  Most of the people in HoE remember the world pre-bomb: 
Technology, space travel, microwave ovens... and then one day BLAM, you 
find yourself killing over a can of beanie-weenies.  Again, scary stuff.

>
>In addition, the rulebook indicates that the Old Ways survived.  Are 
there
>shamans?

   As it also says in the rulebook: Archetypes from Deadlands exist, but 
they are very, very, VERY rare.  I assume this goes for Shamans, too.

  I was thinking about using the shaman info from Ghost Dancers, but
>making completely new Guardian Spirits to represent a different age.

   Be all that you can be.



-Damon Harper
 "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude." 
		-Sir Thomas Browne 
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