Re: [HoE] Junker Martial artist

[Leanne Opaskar <lopaskar@san.rr.com>]

> Well,
>     the char sheets are there to accomodate chars with only one arcane
> background, not two.  And especially since Junking is very time
> consuming, in theory a PC couldn't be both a junker and a martial artist
> unless they had a lot of time (vet'ran of wierd west, and that costs more
> than night terrors).   So, in short, yes, you're a munchkin.  The first
> step is admitting you have a problem.

I admit that the character could be played as a munchkin. But c'mon ...
how can a character with 2d10 in Arts: Cookin' be a munchkin? (;

Actually, I *do* have Veteran of the Wasted West. That's where the
Ailin': Chronic came from. You try playing when you're at a -3 on a
regular basis. (For the record, my GM gives everyone VOTWW so that all
of us don't have to metagame the whole time, and so the characters can
be well rounded.)

Pile that on top of the Night Terrors (let's add a -1 to that -3 up
there), the *Pacifist*, and the Loyalty, plus Sifu! Sifu! and School
Rivalry (Tan Tui) and Yearning (to see the sun again), and I don't
*think* she's all that munchkin. She can do a lot. But she's also REALLY limited.

Granted, the game is strange. She has to put up with the fact that her
captain thinks he's Governor Sir Captain Henry Morgan. (Yes, that
Captain Morgan.) And that's not getting into the rabid cartographer nun
(she's not Blessed -- she's goin' to Hell!). And we won't mention the
other crewman, who thinks he's lost an eye in a fight with a Japanese
swordsman, but keeps switching his eyepatch around. Let alone the town
of Escalon, that's being run by a midget with the Spoon of Antioch,
who's got a castle made out of a strip mall and a miniature golf course
(the Camelot one).

Oh, and did I mention that her sifu is Jewish? <wry grin>

And then there's the undead ninjas riding jetskis. And the Spanish
pirates. And the French pirates. And the Egyptian Space Embassy. And the
Fat Man and Joel Cairo. And the Fat Man's receptionist who wears a veil
of coins on her face. And the turban guys with the scimitars. And the
fish people. And the shopping mall made entirely out of ghost rock. And
and and and and ....

The most *normal* person we've run into has been a huckster who can't
run around without Shadow Man turned on! (Oh, yeah -- and the German
Marktfrau who makes the best sushi in Ripon ... granted, she wanted to
know if our syker was married .... hmmmm...)

The Maze is a very interesting place in our game. (:

 
>         But I know what you're trying to do Qwai Chang Edison, you wanna
> be a ninja with fancy ninja gadgets!  I would do the 80's TV show thing,
> one PC is the ninjadude and another is the gadgetman and builds ninja
> gadgets for himself and Ninjadude.

Ninja gadgets? No, not unless you count a refrigerator as a ninja
gadget. Or a shower. Or a compass. No, actually, Liz is a sybarite. She
misses things like chocolate milkshakes and video games. She almost
smacked someone for wearing armor made out of CDs until he explained
that they were AOL ones. That was OK. (:

That, and she's driven to get rid of the stinking cloud that covers the
whole planet so that there's no real sunlight any more ... (I told you
the game was strange ...) Insert long involved explanations about
nuclear warheads buried under veins of ghost rock as doomsday devices
here. Half her parts end up at her sifu's for that project of a lifetime
-- the air filtration plant ....

		==Leanne (why yes, you can use all this in your game ...)