Re: [HoE] Doombringer/Basic Book stats - The Last Crusaders

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

AJSolis@aol.com wrote:

>    Which reminds me, does the book talk about harrowed templars?  After all,
> they are even more likely to come back than most, thanks to that power.

Well, not exactly... With the Survivor Reward, you draw more cards, but only the
Black Joker results in coming back Harrowed. The Red Joker means the Templar
survived somehow, through blind luck or some bizarre twist of fate. Actually,
now that I think about it, the text for Survivor doesn't explicitly say that the
Templar comes back harrowed, just that they come back "some other way".

Anyway, based on how the other arcane backgrounds deal with harrowed, I'd say:

Harrowed Templars is perfectly possible. We may see a future sourcebook that
deals with this directly, but being harrowed should have no effect on the
Templar's powers.

When the manitou is in control, it has access to all of the Templar's rewards,
but may not use any of the Blessings from the Saints. Anti-templars have access
to the rewards, so I see no reason why the manitous wouldn't.

I'm not sure how Simon would respond to a harrowed Templar. I don't think he'd
be too keen on it. Unless the Templars develope a way to achieve full dominion,
I'd expect Templar would call the Blood Oath on any harrowed Templars just to be
safe.

Harrowed Anti-Templars... well, that's a little different. I guess that's up to
the Marshall, but manitous in Anti-Templars would have full access to all
rewards and the respective saints associated with Anti-Templars. One little
house-rule I'd add... for every point of corruption over the character's spirit
die, add +1 to the manitou's rolls for dominion.

Or it might be good to go the other way with this one, and just treat
Anti-Templars as being the harrowed-equivalent for Templars. That may be the
corruption method of choice for the Reckoners.