Re: [HOE] Hucksters and Strain

["David L. Hoff" <dlhoff1@charter.net>]

Jeff Shoffner wrote:

>Ah, but as you pointed out, this is Stake, not Strain!  :-)
>
>Also, that's why I picked Spirit.  Characters need Vigor to have lots of
>Wind, but most folks write off Spirit.
>
>Jeff S
>
Just a quick comment/question... Is this really true, that "most folks 
write off Spirit"? Because, in games I have ran, it seems that most of 
my players feel that having less than d8s in Spirit is suicide, because 
you will fail Guts checks too often. There are even some characters with 
d10s and d12s in Spirit  who do not have any form of arcane background. 
They mainly do it because the feeling is if you want a character who has 
seen it all, and isn't afraid of anything (an old war vet, for example), 
you need to have not only a high Guts rating (3 or  4 points), but high 
die types as well.

If anything gets "written off" in my group, its Mein. Anything higher 
that a d6 is considered somewhat odd. Mein is also seen as a place to 
"dump" a d4 you might have. One player made a gunfighter recently, and 
put a d12 in Mein, because she wanted to be able to overawe as well as 
persuade people, and the other players in the group were shocked when 
they heard she had used a d12 in that way. They eventually came to think 
of it as an "interesting thing to try". *shrug*

--David L. Hoff
dlhoff1@charter.net