Re: [DL] Multiple Arcane Backgrounds

["Casey Kern" <headninja@hotmail.com>]

As far as I know with respect to arcane backgrounds the only limit is that 
you cannot take more than one arcane background that requires a "faith" in 
something.  This means no shaman/voodoo/blessed or any derivitives(sp?) of 
the three.  Anything else seems to be fair game and quite allowable.  Within 
published Deadlands material there is a blessed/mad scientist and Percy 
Sitgreaves who by the end of his career was a huckster/mad scientist/shaman.

That said if a player wants to mix and match arcane backgrounds make them 
justify why their character would have all these abilities.  I also wouldn't 
worry about this unbalancing the game too much, a player who has to buy 
levels of hexslingin', chi, faith and mad science is going to take a long 
time to become much of a threat.


>From: "Joseph C. Wolf" <coyote@net-link.net>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: Re: [DL] Multiple Arcane Backgrounds
>Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:39:30 -0400
>
>James Knevitt wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a definite ruling with regards to
> > one character having two Arcane Backgrounds?
>
>I've been running Deadlands for year and my suggestion is to not all them 
>for the sake of game balance. Arcane Backgrounds, if not properly handled 
>by the Marshal, can get seriously out of hand, allowing a posse member 
>stack up on the
>special abilities is just asking for trouble.
>
>But then again this is your game. If one of your players wants to stack up 
>on AB's and you're agreable to it go ahead.
>
> >>J
>
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>Joseph "the Ogre" Wolf
>coyote@net-link.net
>Line Developer, Dark Heaven Legends
>Reaper Miniatures, Inc.
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