RE: [HOE] Introduction and Law Dogs question

["Jodi and Clint Black" <cblack@abts.net>]

>Thank you for this, by the way.  You actually made the whole Librarian AB
>make sense instead of being something that seems to be just... there.  I'd
>actually have them, though, start communicating with them in a different
>manner from Faith- perhaps Academia: Occult Communication.

Thank you!  It's always the Marshall's call as to how he wants to handle the
game, but one of my personal rules for anything I might want to seriously
publish is that it expand on the given rules and not try to rework them.
Since Faith is the default, that's what I used.  Personally, I agree with
the use of Faith.  It's the only thing that represents a belief in something
so strong that it can actually alter the world.  And isn't that the
foundation of the Librarians?

>Well, more could be done with Law Dogs, but I don't think they deserve a
>whole book.  I mean, they're a cool idea, but not THAT cool- perhaps
>something in Epitaph 4 if it hasn't been completed yet.  I'm personally not
>really interested in this whole "Mundane Background" idea.  Maybe giving
>people without ABs an extra 5 character points to start out with would be
>good, but not a pseudo-AB of their own.  New Edges and Hindrances might be
>interesting, though, but I don't know what you could do with the Law Dogs
on
>that front.  Detailing "Central Command", or whatever they call it IF they
>call it, would be kinda neat.  That way we could get some insight into the
>inner workings of the Law Dogs.

Like I said above, I prefer to work with the rules as opposed to reworking
them.  I actually didn't mean a "Mundane Background" but more of background
to this mundane (non-AB) character.  If that makes sense.

In fact, you pretty much hit some of the things I was working on; new Edges
just for Law Dogs and "Central Command".  The working idea for central
command is the Coalition On Law Enforcement or COLE.  Yeah, like Cole
Ballad.  Cole's job is to stay so high profile that COLE isn't noticed.
Basically, COLE will be a hidden conspiracy on the side of Good.

It's rough now.  That's why I'm testing the waters.

Thanks again!

Clint