RE: [HOE] Coup questions

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

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>> 1) The huckster has a very high Spirit, especially now that he's dead and
>> bought Supernatural Trait.  I'm concerned that everytime a Servator/nasty
>> beast dies, he'll be the one to count coup on it.  I don't want to
>> overpower him any more than an undead Huckster who rolls 6d12+2 to cast
>> hexes and has his Greater Manitou cowed in fear already is overpowered,
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>> I don't want to piss off the other players by leaving them out.  Should I
>> just blatantly ignore the rule here and hand out the coup as seems fit,
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>> is there some other trick I should know about?
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>Also, a harrowed should never completely have his manitou cowed.  Use
>whatever chips you have to, but the manitou should still come out to play
>every so often.  Also, if you were feeling evil, you could apply the
>supernatural spirit trait to the manitou as well as the huckster.  Remember
>all those harrowed powers come from the manitou and it's not going to hand
>out power to screw itself over.

Just wanted to emphasize this.  The manitou has access to all the same
supernatural powers it grants, the same as the character.  So your huckster
isn't going to gain squat by trying to use Supernatural Trait to get an edge
on his manitou because its Spirit goes up as well.  Only if he raises it
"naturally" is he going to get any edge in the fight for Dominion.



Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."