[DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20000514

[CybStalker@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/14/00 11:52:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
deadlands-owner@gamerz.net writes:

<< >When a character becomes harrowed does he get to pick any additional
 >hindrances, or get additional points for powers.  >>

According to Book o' the Dead, a Harrowed gets ten points to buy powers, with 
the cost being double the powers level he or she is buying it at. I.E. Unholy 
Host 3 costs 6.  Then the Harrowed has to buy at least five points of new 
hindrances to pay for that which result from his death. There's a few great 
harrowed specific ones in BOTD.

Now, that covers five of those ten Harrowed power points....

Spoilers






The other five points come from Blind Spots, a 5 point hindrance which 
basically means the character has lost control to the Manitou in the past 
(probably several times), did something despicable, and doesn't remember.  
This is your excuse to keep making up hideous things to come back and haunt 
him as neccesary to the plot.  There's a whole shopping list of tricks to 
pull on page 81-82 of the BOTD.

On another note can anyone tell me any tricks for making Los Diablos truly 
scary before they appear?  My players are in the 3-5 Grit region and I point 
want the pounding hooves thing to get repetitive.