[HoE] Clean-cut wasters?

[Rich <toadpooka@usa.net>]

While I liked Last Crusaders as much as the next guy, it confirmed a problem I've been having with
HoE in general lately.
When I first read through the rulebook, I got images of a really cool post-apocalyptic world.  My
mental picture of a Templar was a guy wearing a torn bedsheet with a cross painted on it with blood,
holding a sword that was really just a 3' length of rusty old car bumper with a leather strap
wrapped around the end for a handle.  His gun, a small SMG that fires 3 round bursts, has only 2
bullets left in it, but that's just as well, because it misfires more often than not anyway.
But the images I see in the illustrations and in the descriptions appear to be clean-cut knights,
holding swords that would make King Arthur jealous (where do they get REAL, combat-effective swords
anyway?), and armed to the teeth with high-tech weapons that could kill a radrat from 200 meters
away without a second thought.
This is true of most material in the books.  I got into this thinking it was going to be Mad Max,
and it's looking more like Rifts every day...

-- 
"For believers, no explanation is necessary.  For unbelievers, none shall suffice."

Richard A. Ranallo,
Elk, Mason, Communist, President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance for some reason, and Stonecutter.