Re: [HoE] Clean-cut wasters?

[J23junior@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/16/99 3:20:09 PM Central Daylight Time, 
toadpooka@usa.net writes:

<< 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... >>

	but those are just the ":sale" images of the best off templars.  
Don't forget, the book says that a Templar can really get any one 
hand-to-hand weapon blessed by Simon and use it.  That means that while most 
of the Templars try to find good swords of old (how many people would go to 
an art museum for post-apoc. weapons?  How many swords does to Chicago Art 
Museum have?), some have blessed axes, golf clubs, nunchucks, embalmed 
herrings, ect.  Also, I don't see a Templar being more well armed than anyone 
else in HOE-  they can't shoot fireballs from their head or hands, don't do 
card tricks, can't build uber guns, and are expected to whoop a** on black 
hat squads and motor cycle gangs all the same.  And as far as the clean cut 
thing goes- I think thats more hype than reality in game, since they spend 
half their time deciding who is worthy.  Don't forget, any game can be made 
as much or as little like Rifts by the GM.