Re: [DL] Blessed Hucksters

[Matthew S Pulido <talison@netnitco.net>]

on 7/5/02 1:56 PM, Fred Jandt at fajandt@yahoo.com wrote:

> --- Matthew S Pulido <talison@netnitco.net> wrote:
>> on 7/5/02 8:27 AM, Fred Jandt at fajandt@yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> --- Janne Matti Oskari Vuorenmaa
>> <jvuorenm@cc.hut.fi>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Not for the player types out there, mind you!
>>>> 
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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.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> All of this started, when the posse's huckster
>>>> started to share his theory
>>>> on the occult.
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Whaddya think? Disagree? Why? Why not?
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----Hulkin' Finn
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Not to argue your answer (cause I agree with it) but
>> don't their powers
>> technically come from the same source? On page
>> 102-103 of "Fire and
>> Brimstone" it says that the miracles come from the
>> hunting grounds. It's
>> simply a matter of who is bestowing the power on the
>> caster, but it's the
>> same power.
>> 
>> Or maybe I just argued in you favor by saying that.
> 
> Ummm...confusing post ;) but I think I know where you
> are coming from. Okay, sure the power comes from the
> same source, but the Powers That Be for blessed make
> it cleaner and easier to use. Start ticking them off
> and you are going to be dealing with manitous more.
> Like a huckster.

Ah.. OK. That's what I thought you were going for after I wrote the above.
That's why I added that I might be arguing your case. But Originally I
thought you meant that their power was 100% different.

OK, Don't mind me.

Talison
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