Re: [HOE] Templer/A-T Stuff

["Scott Pedersen" <spederse@hotmail.com>]

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> 1)If an A-T "sees the light" of his/her backers as being something
> malignant, can they reform and change to a Templar.

There are a couple of issues here.  The first is, can an anti-templar be
reformed?  To put it simply, yes.  All they have to do is take off the black
tabard and stop using their AT powers.  Of course the tabard and at AT
powers will always be there, tempting the newly reformed character in times
of crisis...

The second is, can a reformed AT then become a Templar?  This, I think,
depends greatly on the history of the character.  The minimum I would
require is that they buy off all corruption points they accrued as an AT.
They would then have to remain clean without using their powers long enough
to convince the grand master of the Templars that they had truly reformed.
Also, they must not have ever killed a Templar.  If someone who has slain a
Templar shows up later in Boise looking to join the order ...well... may God
have mercy on them because the Templars sure won't.  So basically, yes they
can become a Templar if they can show through their actions they have truly
and sincerely reformed, and if they haven't done anything too evil in their
past.

> 2)Can Templars and A-T's be harrowed?  I can see that an A-T probably has
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> greater chance as coming back harrowed since they are serving the
Reckoners.
> However, can a Templar come back?  Would that forsake all their blessings,
> rewards, and greater rewards?

This has been answered elsewhere, but the short answer is yes.  Even blessed
can be harrowed, although it is very uncommon.  Of course if they started
out harrowed, I'd expect the grand master to by wary of granting powers to a
potential evil and unstable person.

> 3)I know that the "Blessed" could call down miracles in times of need.
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> can't Templars do the same?  Wouldn't it help the cause of they could
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> a Torrential rain to smite their enemies?

Tell me a Templar with a holy sword and celerity 5 isn't a miracle.  Lay on
hands is equally miraculous.  It would help the cause if Templar could
perform blessed miracles, but it would also help the cause if a light from
heaven would smite the reckoners off the earth.  Unfortunately, the powers
of good don't work like that.

If you so desired, it would be possible to have a character who was both
blessed and a Templar.  That, of course, would depend on the marshal's call
since some unbalancing effects are certainly possible (this also bends the
'no 2 arcane backgrounds' rule.  A blessed companion however, is 100%
legal).  Heck, just blessed all by themselves are fairly unbalancing in HOE
if done right, I once put together a blessed who knocked down the fear level
by a couple of points just by standing around, and he could almost
completely overcome the power of fear when he put his back into it.  I would
also require a blessed Templar to take two separate faith aptitudes, one for
the saints, and another for their religion of choice.  I have a doomsayer in
my posse that was named a companion and I made the same ruling.  Using
'faith: the glow' to power Templar martyr rewards just didn't seem right.

-Scott Pedersen