Re: [HoE] Templars and Anti-Templars

[Phil <pames@mindspring.com>]

At 06:55 AM 8/2/99 PDT, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 7/30/99 7:24:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>J23junior@aol.com writes:
>They're bad guys, in other words, because the source materials, sometimes 
>without an actual rationale, says they're bad guys.  Yeah, some of them turn 
>to the Reckoners, and they've got that extra bit of temptation.  So...there 
>aren't any Syker Servitors, or purple-type Doomsayer Servitors, or Junker 
>Servitors?
>
>>What makes this inevitable is the notion that the easy power they can tap
>>into is tainted, and the more they use it the more the taint grows. The
>>problem
>>with a PC AT is that as the PLAYER he can simply say he'll never draw on 
>>the
>>dark power and he gets a Templar free of all those annoying restrictions.

Part of the reason for the evil is that a lot of them START out that way.
They recruit road gang scum for their warbands, and after travelling with
them for a while, some of the scum become anti-templars...Also, the way
they earn greater rewards, by killing templars, can lead to servitorhood as
surely as drawing on the power of the Reckoners...especially if they kill
off bona-fide heroes.

Phil