Re: [HoE] Junkman Cometh/Huckster ?

[Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>In a message dated 6/23/99 9:36:43 AM Central Daylight Time,
>ceesrw@cee.hw.ac.uk writes:
>
> >
> > Hucksters evolved into Sykers, and Hoyles was pretty much
> > forgotten.
>    No, Tempests evolved into Sykers, but since Hucksters can't be 
>Tempests,
>and vice versa, that has no effect on Hucksters one way or another.
>

Yeah, I thought the "Hucksters evolved into Sykers" statement seemed a bit 
odd.  Besides, I don't think Hucksters "evolved" into Sykers, but that their 
techniques (and those of Martial Arts) were spun off and a new bunch of 
folks used this merged technique to become Sykers.

So the _techniques_ of Hucksters and Martial Arts "evolved" into Syker 
ability (why do I always want to type Psyker?), but I don't think the folks 
themselves evolved.

Of course, as Mr. Wallace noted and I agree with, hucksters tend to be 
fairly versatile.  So why every government agency on Earth decided that this 
versatility was no longer needed at all, and they apparenlty shelved every 
Huckster they had, has always left me somewhat puzzled as well.

> > With the new, more reliable way of tapping into
> > the Hunting Grounds I can't see much reason for developing
> > Hoyle's work much further.
> > John [Goff] said hucksters did evolve - a little.
> >
>    Does anyone else find it ironic that Blastin' is supposedly so much 
>safer
>when it involves a chance of one's head blowing up?
>

Again, as Steve Wallace noted and I agreed with, Blastin' (and 
Faith/Doomsayer) _is_ much safer because the chance of one's head blowing up 
is so much smaller than a Huckster's chance of his head blowing up/being 
possessed by a Manitou/blowing up his comrade/whatever.

As I noted, I'm running a group that has a Huckster and he tends to hit 2-3 
Backlashes a night.  I've yet to see the group's Syker and Doomsayer Bust 
once on their power rolls.  Part of that is because Hucksters can get 
backlash even if they _don't_ Bust.

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