Re: [DL] Hucksters

["Ronald Conner" <marshalron@hotmail.com>]

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I've done some studies.  And a little research to boot.  Combat huckseters 
are not hard to pull off but the right aplications must be used.  First off 
don't use spirit based hexes.  They don't do enough damage for the price and 
they are a poor use of skill points.  Smarts and cognition based hexes are 
much more powerful and versitile.

Next i've run through a number of variations and found that the most you are 
likly to get out of an average 5 to 7 card draw is a pair.  Only about 2 
hands of the deck will be over two pair on average.  I've run the deck 
through some permeatations of 5, 6,7 and even higher card draws and only at 
about 8-10 cards do you get consistantly decent hands say three of a kind 
and up.  But you also only get about 2 run throughs the deck before you hit 
joker.  At which point you just reshuffle.

So plan around useing the pair to two pair range and get a decent sidearm.  
I've often found that shoot first spellcast when you run out of bullets is a 
good way to go.  It saves your skills and your deck for the hard stuff.

Ron C

>
> > When casting a hex in combat, why does it seem nearly impossible to cast
> > anything?  Are there a lot of spell failures due to bad hands?
> >
>
>I honestly never have a great many problems casting hexes in combat.  My
>current character aside that is.  Inthe first game for this character I
>backlashed two of the three hexes I cast.  But normally, from my 
>experience,
>Hucksters in our group generally get them off without a hitch.
>
>Walt Carmichael
>

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