Re: [DL] Re: hucksters

[joe crow <crowboy-9@worldnet.att.net>]

on 7/28/00 11:14 PM, Daphne Brunelle at dbrune4@po-box.mcgill.ca wrote:

>>> The biggest Munchkins I've encountered are people with Harrowed
>>> characters.
>> This is the type of player who ends up killing his posse. Not because of
>> anything he does, but because the power level of the monsters have to be
>> upped so much to challenge him. I say a visit from some rampaging bulls
>> might do this guy some good. Sure, some posse members might be taken out as
>> well, but it would put a world of hurt on the Harrowed. At least, it should.
>> 
> 
> Well, from a player perspective, if you need to cut your munchkin Harrowed
> down to size, there's nothing like having the manitou take over at just the
> wrong time and committing wholesale slaughter to make the player think a
> little more about what being Harrowed really means.

    in one of the earlier campaigns i was in, one of the posse was a
harrowed huckster with black lightning. he started to get a little silly
with the public hexes so our marshall had the manitou take him over and kill
the entire party...and half the town. i don't think he was expecting to draw
or roll as well as he did...but it certainly got the lethality point across.
    i still miss horsekiller. brawny apache war shaman, ugly as sin, hell on
wheels. one of the coolest moments any of my characters ever had was when
horsekiller was tracking a huckster through the fog he'd just conjured up,
nose two inches from the ground. bang, he's nose to boot with the bad guy
and looks up to see a soul blast headed for his face. i drop my last two
chips to avoid the damage and horsekiller cracks the guy upside the head
with his rifle butt so hard his head comes off. i think it was about 8
wounds to the head...now *that* was sweet.
    now if he'd only made that last called shot to the head, he'd still be
around...

-- joe crow

    -everything i need to know about life i learned by killing smart people
and eating their brains-