Re: [HoE] John Hopler (time travel)

[AJSolis@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/15/99 2:25:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Lister2500@aol.com writes:

> 
> Okay, first and foremost I shall smack you quite painfully for arguing with 
> John Hopler about a rules decision.  And then I shall state that WHY 
> Templars 
> have their powers doesn't really matter.  In the Weird West, the SOURCE of 
> their powers doesn't even exist.  They'd still be badasses with a sword, 
but 
> 
> they'd lose all their special skills.  The only argument against this could 
>  be that the Saints bestow the rewards on Templars in much the same manner 
as 
> >  a blessed, so that the Templar himself has that power now, instead of 
the 
>  spirits of dead heroes giving it to him at all times.
> 
   Well, I admit that I don't own the Templar book, and so don't know all the 
gritty details, but if they gain their powers from the saints, and the saints 
are just those who have been martyred fighting the forces of evil, well then 
I would have to say that there would be plenty of saints in the deadlands 
time, although individual saints which a Templar might call apon might not 
have been martyred yet.  Plus, I see no reason why the Templars couldn't have 
already existed in the deadlands universe, after all it is only the most 
cliche secret society of them all.  Perhaps after the Reckoning they just 
went out into the open a bit.

> As for Doomsayers, I was never really clear on how their powers worked, 
> except for the fact that the radiation already in their bodies made them 
> more 
> open to the Glow.  If that's the correct interpretation, then they, too, 
>  would be bereft of their powers in the Weird West, as there is no Glow in 
> 1876.
>  
   Well, if their powers work by channeling the energy of the hunting grounds 
as the rules indicate, and the radiation stuff is just a gimmick, then their 
powers should work fine in deadlands.  If you see radiation as more required 
than that, then I would have to point out that almost everything is 
radioactive to some small extant, in which case their powers would work, they 
would just have a devil of a time waiting to recharge.