[DL] Non-Ghost Rock Science

["Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>]

Heya everyone, hope everyones having a good season -

One of my PCs gave me an idea - want to bounce it off all of you. I'm 
play testing it now.

My mad scientist had a deep want to create something. His friend, a 
native shaman, however, was against ghost rock (He had some spiritual 
awakening to Ghost Rock's unpleasant side due to a vision, from before I 
picked up the game).  So my mad scientist offered this non-game solution 
to create something not using Ghost Rock.

His theory is to take most anything in Smith and Robards, triple the 
creation time, and raise the minimum hand a reasonable amount - one hand 
for something common, like a Gatling Pistol, up to 4 for something very 
rare or very dependent on Ghost Rock, with some things being simply 
impossible (Ghost Steel, for example).

I think this is a reasonable way to let some of a mad scientist come out 
without using Ghost Rock. However, I see some problems in it to start. 
As an example, how does reliability work? Would they be more stable, for 
lack of Manitou flying about it? Or less reliable, being that it doesn't 
have the do-everything clutch of Ghost Rock?

I'm looking for a lil input here, any would be much appreciated.

-Stryfe
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