Re: [DL] A small mail on shamans and such.

[Frank <frank.wisnes@student.uib.no>]

Thanks for all your input.. it's been most helpfull :)

Now for a small reply.


>Got Hucksters and Hexes? Most of the info in that for how obvious users of 
>the arcane arts get treated (I.E. String'em up!) counts for Shaman, too... 
>And they're "dirty savage indians," too!

I have it, read it a while back and are keeping the idea in the back of my 
head. The only problem is that he usually leaves no witnesses when he's 
used his powers. But one day he will, and I have patience ;)


>He still has to spend time to build up appeasement, but he can put it off.

As for filling up the guardian spirit, as a few people pointed out might be 
a problem, the "tobacco" ritual is very unbalancing. 15 minutes, an easy 
spirit roll and 1 point filled. Rinse and repeat 5 times, and a little more 
then an hour of smoking later the guardian spirit is full. And to make 
matters worse, the points count double when used for the associated 
medicine. His guardian spirit is the Owl, which means he can use all the 
nasty ghost medicine favors for "half price".. and that's bad news for 
anyone he doesn't like.


>Mexican? Most of my posse hates Mexicans! Lots of characters have serious 
>grudges against Mexicans!

I'll keep that in mind ;)


>As i said, have fun with him, and don't let him abuse it. The basic theory 
>for shamans and spirits is that the spirits do what the shamans ask in 
>return for the shaman keeping things the way the spirits want. Imagine an 
>old uncle who gives you gifts and pocket money, but you have to put up 
>with his interests in old movies (and none of those new-fangled video 
>tapes) weird food (really, try eating nothing but diner food for a 
>month...) and the like...

hehe..


>For real fun, pick up Lost Angels. If the Shaman is the only Arcane 
>Background in the group, he'll get a rude surprise as he is VERY 
>aggressively singled out.


They are actually heading there looking for a certain stone. I had almost 
forgot about that nasty little sideeffect.. that's gonna be fun fun fun ;)


Allan Seyberth:
You pointed out a quite a few things about the oath that follows a guardian 
spirit. But the owl has a pretty easy one, kill an enemy each month. That's 
not usually a problem, as he's the most brutal SOB around. It's also hard 
to do something out of, as it don't really have an roleplaying aspect to 
it. I could of course define enemy harsh, but that wouldn't make much 
difference.

I've considered killing off his guardian spirit, and he's actually had 
Hellstromme (through his contacts of course) threaten to kill it if he 
don't do as he's told and return the stone. They messed up the first part 
of the Devil's Tower Trilogy pretty bad, and Hellstromme isn't happy about it.


Thanks for all the feedback btw :)
I'm starting to like it here.


- Frank -