Re: [DL] Hucksters - Joker Question

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

That's not necessarily true.  When you are inventing you may have to take 
several stabs at the same thing. The first time is seldom the first sucess.  
Unless you use design quirks...the finest thing to come out for MS ever.

So after the first attempt the deck is still there and the jokers are most 
likly still in it.  So after that failed attempt do you have them reshuffle? 
  That would give the MS an unfair disadvantage.  You could keep pulling off 
a new deck and get 10 new dementias without ever getting a resonable success 
on what you are trying to invent.  I know this is kind of the intention 
behind being a "MAD" scientist but I like mine to keep inventing after the 
first thing.  Not devolve into some snivleing wreck that isn't any good to 
anyone.

Its a victory when the party puts down the harrowed who has lost dominion.  
Its sad when they youthanize the good doctor because he ate an NPC.

The odds change quite a bit but the backlash for MS are more severe than 
that for hucksters.  Backlash will seldom kill a huckster, Dementias are 
cripleing.

Ron C
"which still leaves the question.  How and when do you reshuffle the decks."

>Oh no.  It certainly does not take all the fun out of
>it.  When you shuffle everytime it's just as, if not
>more nerve wraking.  Everytime the Huckster in my
>group starts drawing curves my heart starts pounding
>with anticipation and I'm just running the game.
>
>Besides here's my reasoning about why you shuffle
>between spells.  Mad Scientists are unlikely to invent
>that many things in game.  They're more likely to get
>invent things between games or once every 3rd game or
>so.  There's no way you're going to keep track of a
>deck of cards for that long.  So, essencially Mad
>Scientists get to shuffle between every invention.
>That gives them an unfair advantage over hucksters
>unless hucksters shuffle between every hex.
>
>Jesse
>
>--- Ronald Conner <marshalron@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Whoa!  What was that about reshuffling when you
> > hit a
> > > > joker?  I thought hucksters reshuffle between
> > every
> > > > spell which is why they use a separate deck from
> > the
> > > > combat action deck?  Did I miss something?  If I
> > did
> > > > could you please cite the page number in the
> > Revised
> > > > Edition books that states this.  Thanks.
> > >
> > >You're right.  You reshuffle after every hex cast.
> > >
> > >Nick Zachariasen
> >
> >
> > When did that come up.  I've always played from the
> > notion that hexslingers
> > kept plugging away at the same deck until something
> > kicked...like the black
> > joker.  It gave spellcasting that odd edge, you knew
> > it was going to happen
> > it was just a matter of time.  Reshuffleing after
> > every spell seems to take
> > all the fun out of it for me.
> >
> >
> > Ron C
> >
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