Re: [DL] Super Agent

[Fred Jandt <fajandt@yahoo.com>]

All I have to say on this matter is that anyone
focusing this much power from the Hunting Grounds
through their system is in for some serious bad times.
At the very least they are a lightning rod for bad
mojo, and at the worst, they are going to slowly be
turned bad by all that juice flowing through their
system.

What's the old saying about power corrupts....

Fred J.

--- Ben Rasmussen <nyddoybdyle@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > there is one very important reason you can't do
> that, and that is the same
> > reason a person can't have multiple arcane
> background(except for HOE's
> > jonker and huckster).
> > this reason is, that all characters with arcane
> backgrounds get their
> powers
> > from the same place--the hunting grounds.  it's
> how they interperet the
> > hunting grounds and how they pull power from it
> that makes it impossible
> for
> > a person to have different backgrounds.  there may
> be a few that are
> > compatible, but only in HOE.  let's take a look at
> common arcane
> > backgrounds:
> 
> I really don't think AB are mutally exclusive. I
> wouldn't nessecarily allow
> a player to just load up but that's for game
> balance.
> 
> SPOILERS (unless you know how AB get their mojo)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Blessed are pretty much compatable with all
> non-faith based AB. Which pretty
> much rules out shamans. Voodosists are already a
> varrient on blessed. And
> Black magic, well, that's NPC turf.
> 
> Shamans are pretty exclusive. But thats due to where
> they get their powers,
> Nature spirits. The Spirits know all other AB's are
> getting the mojo from
> the manitou, so they won't grant power to schmucks
> that use it.
> 
> Hucksters lack a philosphy, other then power through
> will. Very little
> reason you couldn't mix Hucksters with other AB's.
> Even a Blessed, though
> it'd take a very special religion, but some later
> forms of kaballism (sp)
> might work.
> 
> Mad science has that scientific bent to it, but yet
> again nothing rules it
> out from mixing with other AB's other then dang good
> justification.
> Hucksters are already a natural fit. Blessed might
> work, but this is rougher
> then Hucksters. Faith and Science hardly go hand in
> hand. But it's not like
> the MS knows where the ideas come from.
> 
> Voodoo. Hrm, I don't know the voodoo rules really
> well, so I'll refrain from
> a comment.
> 
> Chi users could fit with Blessed alright... thin
> line between some eastern
> religions and the MA philosphy. Hucksters are
> pushing it, but I don't think
> anything specifically rules it out. Now,
> butt-kicking easterners aren't
> really the inventor type, so MS is probably a wash,
> but yet again nothing
> rules it out.
> 
> And Harrowed, well anyone can be harrowed. =)
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> ... armchair philosophers? Where are they supposed
> to do it? "Descarte leapt
> across the ditch as the bullets buzzed past his ears
> like angry wasps - 'If
> all I can know is the product of my own
> perceptions,' he thought as he
> punched another Hussar in the throat, 'then all I
> can say with any
> confidence is "I think, therefore I am." ' Turning,
> he grabbed the Prussian
> colonel's cap and wrenched down over his ears,
> tossing him back into the
> trench now filled with twisted corpses."  --Radical
> Athority (rpg.net)
> 
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Fred Jandt
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fajandt@yahoo.com

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