[HoE] Re: [HOPLER] Veteran Hucksters vs. HoE Hucksters

[Steve Crow <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>I had no idea that that one parapgraph in TJC would spark so much debate.

You play around with one of the best character classes, what do you expect?  
:)

>Okay, after reading everything everyone's written on the subject, here's 
>what
>I propose (I hesitate to call this official, let's see what everyone 
>thinks):
>
>I included the huckster AB primarily to cover early junkers who had learned
>hucksterism to augment their mad science. As a result, they're not as
>polished a hexslinger than a full-time huckster. With that in mind, I 
>propose
>that junkers can  buy arcane background: huckster for 1 point, but the
>penalties as written in TJC remain as written. Non-junker hucksters who are

Reducing the cost to 1 makes sense for me.

So from the above, and to repeat my original question...can you be a 
non-junker Huckster who is _not_ a Veteran of the Weird West?

The best example here would be could a Weird West 200-year old Huckster take 
on a student who was born after 2081 _and_ is not a Junkster?

A Huckster who wants to bring back the "old ways" Huckstering could 
conceivably make an interesting character, for instance.


>Veterans o the Weird West pay full price for arcane background, use the
>standard huckster rules (whichever version), but still get a +4 to 
>backlash.


So they still get the "safe" Red Joker as well (at level 3, or at any level, 
depending on which version).  I take it you are referring to the 
revised-to-come version?


>Sorry, but it's still more dangerous for huckster in HOE than in the Weird
>West. Non-veteran hucksters fall in between, they get a +4 to backlash, and
>red jokers cause backlash at any skill level.
>

What about the increase-by-1 minimum hand size?

Sounds fairly good, with one exception (knew there had to be one, right?).  
Why is it dangerous for Veteran Hucksters?  Because...manitous are more 
powerful, right?  If the strength of a Hex (or the ease of its casting, or 
some combination of both) is dependent on a Hucksters ability to contact 
manitous and channel their power...

...and there are more manitous, and/or much more powerful ones floating 
about post 2081...

...shouldn't this in some way benefit a Huckster who has had 200+ years to 
become experienced in their ways?

We've never really disputed that manitous are more powerful.   But what is 
Pinnacle's reasoning as to why manitous are more powerful, _yet_ Hucksters 
that have been along with them during the manitous' entire rise of power, 
who have _always_ tried to get as much power from manitous as powerful, 
don't gain more power in 2094 than these more powerful manitous

>John Hopler
>Pinnacle
>


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