Re: [HoE] Junkman Cometh/Huckster ?

[AJSolis@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/23/99 6:39:30 AM Central Daylight Time, 
ceesrw@cee.hw.ac.uk writes:

> 
> The manitou is more powerful - it's more dangerous for the 
> huckster.  I don't think it should make the hex more 
> powerful - it doesn't make sense, because the huckster 
> beats a manitou with the same amount of power in HoE as he 
> does in Deadlands to get the same poker hand.
   Actually, while brushing up on my Deadlands rules, I noticed that the book 
said that the successes on the hex roll represented a more powerful Manitou. 
More raises, bigger manitou, better chance of a good hand.  Which would mean 
that more powerful manitou should equal more cards in the huckster's hand, 
which means the huckster's would be more powerful as well.  Of course, that 
explanation doesn't totally make sense, but that is what pennacle wrote in 
the books.  :)


>  A Pair is a Pair is a Pair - in Deadlands or HoE, it has 
>  the same effect.
>  If hucksters had become more powerful too, showing a 
>  general excalation in arcane power, then I could see the 
>  rationale of increasing the effect of a hex, but nothing in 
>  TJC indicates this - hucksters still use Hoyles teachings, 
>  which come from a time with much weaker manitou.  Unless 
>  hucksters evolve too, they're going to continue getting the 
>  shaft.
>  
    And one is supposed to believe that huckster's have remained static for a 
couple hundred of years why?  I fail to see why huckster's wouldn't have been 
developing better, more efficient hexes.