RE: [DL] Hucksters and Strain (Comments requested)

[john tfs <johntfs1@yahoo.com>]

--- Clint Black <cblack@ohtinc.com> wrote:
> 
> I like this, but of course, I have to twist it to
> EVIL.
> 
> I would base Stake off of Spirit.  I would not limit
> the Huckster to a Two
> Pair maximum.  However...
> 
> Stake is based off Spirit because the Huckster is
> literally gambling away
> part of his soul.  It can regenerate over time like
> Strain, and no Huckster
> actually gives away all of his soul.  If he does, he
> pretty much becomes an
> NPC Black Magician.
> 
> No, what happens is that when you spend Stake, your
> Spirit is based of your
> CURRENT level.
> 
> Thus, Bob the Huckster with a Spirit of 3d12 has 12
> Stake.  He spends 2 on a
> hex, and now all of his Spirit based rolls are
> figured as a d10 until he
> regains his Stake.  If it is an odd number, like say
> Bob casts another hex
> and spends one more Stake to reduce his backlash,
> then he would roll a d8+1.
> If he gets down to a d4, then he starts to subtract
> any additional from
> Spirit based rolls.  Let's say Bob has been in a
> rough fight and spent all
> of his Stake <manitou licking their lips at the
> taste of his soul>.  One
> plain old walkin' dead steps around the corner
> (okay, not plain old in my
> world.  The walkin' dead is actually the long lost
> child he had been
> searching for).  So Bob has to make a guts check. 
> He has a 5 in guts, but
> with all of his Stake gone, he soul is just barely
> holding on to reality.
> He has to roll a 5d4-4 to face his fear.  Poor Bob. 
> At least he made sure
> his child was well fed.  BRAINS!!!!
> 
> 

I like this idea too, but I'd have it work as
"negative" Stake and once Spirit reaches d4, no
further Stake could be spent.  Furthermore, any
"Spirit stake" would regenerate at only 1 point per
DAY.  And any busts on rolls using "Spirit Stake"
would mean that the Spirit loss would be PERMANENT. 

> 
> Clint Black
> 
> "You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock,
> son. Nothing else in the
> world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost
> rock in the morning. You
> know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve
> hours. When it was all over
> I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one
> stinkin' Yank body. The
> smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole
> hill. Smelled like...
> victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."
> 
> 
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