Re: [DL] Blessed Hucksters

["Kartzoffs" <kartzoffs@optusnet.com.au>]

I think would forfeit the chance of receiving any Miracles if you
> were consorting with demons or spirits
I would personally allow a player to use a Blessed Huckster if they wanted
and heres why: they don't consort with Manitous. Hucksters & Hexes says it
again and again: They laying one hell of a hurt on the manitou in a mental
battle to force the Manitou to do the Hucksters bidding. The whole forcing
the Manitou is different to consorting with one and while your average
bible-basher mightn't see that, I am sure the All-Mighty understands. I
would say the only use of Hexslingin' a deity wouldn't like was when they
use a Hex for personal gain (you know: erasing from the saloon gal's mind
the fact that you "hired" her, things like that). Using your hexes only in
the persuit of kicking arse for the Lord and Goodness would be perfectly all
right in my opinion (although I would make using Hexes for personal gain a
mortal sin).
Just my two (Australian) cents.

Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erick Rummerfield" <erickr@pbemadventures.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: [DL] Blessed Hucksters


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