Re: [HOE] Why is Blastin' a Knowledge aptitude?

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> Sure he can learn new powers outside his specialty.  He just needs to
> find somebody to teach him, or find one of the Syker manuals.  He has
> to go out and find these people/things instead of gazing at his navel
> while waiting to kill folks.

Right, but something like that is going to be pretty rare. There aren't
that many sykers out there (and most of the ones posses meet are usually
un-friendly :), and from the description I got in the book those manuals
are worth their weight in bullets (or some other colorful expression) and
are very hard to find (the two really good ones would be belongin's 5!) So
it still comes down to an issue of whether it's worth it for the player.
And what are you really accomplishing? Are you encouraging the player to
play a more well rounded character, or punishing him into doing it?
 
> > There's also the argument that this creates a bias > against the
> syker AB. > The templars can pick their powers freely, as can > the
> doomsayers, rad > shamans, etc. because they only need that one trait.
> > While the syker is > stuck because he's trying to raise 5 (well
> probably > more like 2-3) traits > to "stay even". If you were going
> to use a similar > system for all the AB's > then it would be fair
> (but it would be a headache to > divide up all the > other powers,
> since they aren't categorized like the > syker powers), but > just
> doing it for sykers doesn't seem right to me. >
> 
> Well, what happens if I use a Huckster, or Blessed or
> something else to put the whammy on your Spirit?

Huh? I don't know what you mean here. If the player has a character with a
low spirit then he suffers the consequences. It's his choice. But by the
rules a syker doesn't NEED a high spirit (just like a blessed doesn't need
a high knowledge). I'd be wary of changing that for just one character
type. Do you plan on making similar changes to all AB's or just sykers? If
it was something that was done across the board it might be cool (I think
AB's in HoE tend to over-shadow non-AB's).

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