[DL] d20 Hucksters, Blessed, MS (do they work in a DnD3 setting?)

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

The discussion about how Mr. Stoner might go about getting Martial
Artists into his DLd20 game made me start to wonder.  (Tho I too am
interested in what he comes up with!)

I was wondering if any of the DLd20 owners out there have tried playing
a Huckster or Blessed or what have you in a more "normal" DnD3 setting?
Sure, the DLd20 rules are d20, but do the classes translate well to,
say, Forgotten Realms as far as balance is concerned?  It might be fun
to roleplay a Huckster alongside a Paladin ("You claim to be good, but
get your powers from the depths of hell?").  But it wouldn't work if the
Deadlands classes, while balanced against each other, are a step or two
stronger than the base classes from the PHB.  I'm not looking to bring
firearms to a fantasy setting, just a twist on the character
interactions -- "Who are you?"  "I'm Father Brown."  "Ah, a cleric, eh?
Who do you worship?"  "I worship God."  "Yeah, you all worship a god, I
was wondering which one."  "There is only one God."  "Huh?"

OK, so I thought it was fun to run a cleric that worshipped water once
too (his holy symbol was a bucket, he wore it on his head a lot, and he
kept telling people that man was created by water to carry it uphill --
it was an MOD I saw during college).  At least I refuse to play Kender!

Jeff Y.