RE: [DL] Blessed Hucksters

["Erick Rummerfield" <erickr@pbemadventures.com>]

> 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.
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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 would have to agree with you Fred, seeing how Miracles are supposed to
come from God, if the player is playing a Blessed of Christian Religion.
This would go against his commandment of worshipping false idols, and
thus I think would forfeit the chance of receiving any Miracles if you
were consorting with demons or spirits.

Erick R
AKA Mase Todd
www.pbemadventures.com