Re: [DL] Super Agent

[Wraith530@comcast.net]

take my word for it, it's all explained in the HOE series.  it's all the
same power, but everyone gets a certain 'grasp' on how to channel and use
this power, and can't get a grip on any other way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Rasmussen" <nyddoybdyle@hotmail.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [DL] Super Agent


> > 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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