[HoE] Hucksters & Time Travel

[Gwydion758@aol.com]

<< Just out of curiosity, why would anyone _want_ to run a Huckster under the 
new modified Arcane Background found in the Junkman Cometh book?

Basically, for the same three points you had to pay before, your minimum 
hand size goes up one, you get +4 to your Backlash roll, and you lose the 
benefit of Level 3+ letting you ignore backlash due to Red Jokers.

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*shrug* It just seems like the Hucksters got kinda...neutered in Junkman.  
Why would anyone want to play them giving the revisions made?
>>

Well, I believe that hucksters don't really fit the world story that Pinnacle 
is trying to craft for HOE.  They probably included the AB because there are 
a *lot* of people out there who like to play them, and there were a 
significant number of requests for hucksters in HOE.

As far as the red jokers go, the revised rules coming out this summer make 
red jokers good at all levels so you could just drop that part.  I'm sure it 
was written to be consistant with the existing rules rather than the revision.

As to why someone would play a huckster, some people like to play a "doomed" 
character, or one that is challenged more than others.  Also (as someone else 
already noted) a huckster would be easier to explain in terms of "Veteran of 
the Wierd West".  Anyone who wants to play one just goes in with the knowlege 
that times are *tough*.


<< But...we've since been told that all the tech that pre-2060 (or whenever) 
Mads were given was simply knowledge up to 2060 (approx.) by Manitous.

So...how did the Manitous give Mad Scientists knowledge of time travel, when 
no such scientific knowledge existed in 2060 or beyond to as far as 2094? >>

Well (again as someone else has noted) what makes you think it didn't exist 
in 2060? or 3050 for that matter.  Just because the game is set in 2094 
doesn't mean the Reckoners couldn't pull the info from farther up the line.  
Personally, I think the existance of a working time machine could be the real 
reason Kansas City was hit by a regular nuke instead of a ghost rock bomb.

And about Devil's Tower -- the person from the future (Jo!) used the same 
path thru the Hunting Grounds that Stone did.

Jeff