Re: [DL] Blessed Hucksters

[Fred Jandt <fajandt@yahoo.com>]

--- Janne Matti Oskari Vuorenmaa <jvuorenm@cc.hut.fi>
wrote:
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> You player types don't read that good, do ya? Shoo!
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> I now have a posse member asking if his blessed can
> become a huckster.
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> His argument was, that God might help him to get to
> the hunting grounds in
> order to continue the battle there and that in his
> case the harnessing of
> the manitous power would be not as much tricking the
> evil manitous, but
> shepherding the benign ones.
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> All of this started, when the posse's huckster
> started to share his theory
> on the occult.
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> I'm about to deny the AB: Huckster from the blessed,
> mostly because my
> notion of the blessed does not sit well with
> hucksterism -- God's (whether
> or not being the christian omnipotent one or a
> reckoner among the others)
> warriors should be able to fight the good fight with
> the powers He gives
> them without the need for the aid of lesser spirits.
> I was planning on
> telling him (the player of the char) that the idea
> does not sit well with
> his character and its beliefs and explain my notion
> with some extra spices
> to a) avoid exposing anything and b) inserting a bit
> of paranoia towards
> the huckster.
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> Whaddya think? Disagree? Why? Why not?
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> Oh, I must add: The player in question is definitely
> NOT a power gamer nor
> a munchkin. After the conversation with the
> Huckster, that idea is not
> pushing it, IMO. Just that he really doesn't know
> all that much about
> hucksterism. Or my views on it.
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> ----Hulkin' Finn

Okay, as the guy who did Way o the Huckster and is
working on Way o the Righteous, my immediate answer
is...No.

Being a blessed means having faith that all the
strength you need comes from your god. Consorting with
spirits, benign or not, is a bad thing. Now this may
seem pretty cut and dry, but remember there weren't
that many forward thinkers as far as religion went
back then.

Also, I would think any blessed who starts
investigating hexes would soon find their blessed
abilities starting to diminish as their ability to
throw hexes increased. They may not see a difference
in their eyes, but their power is definitely coming
from different sources.

My two cents.

Fred J.

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I've had it up to here. Listening to a small segment of people trying to put down America. America's the greatest land on Earth and we oughta be proud of what we have. I'm proud of America. I'm proud of our people and I'm going to prove it. We're American and damn proud of it!

Dink - Green Mind

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