RE: [DL] Becoming Harrowed (potential spoilers)

[Markus Finster <markus.finster@chello.at>]

That's what I was thinking initially.
Right now, I have two Harrowed in my posse. One is aware of his situation, 
the other found out last Friday.
Both don't have any benefits from their special condition right now, but I 
was flipping through The Book of the Dead again to see what they might gain 
over time - and then I found the Hindrance section (again).

Before those two, I only had one Harrowed character and the player started 
already Harrowed. We didn't have the Book of the Dead yet, so we just came 
up with some things.

I just don't know how to work the Hindrances in for "in-game" Harrowed.

("You're riding in town, when all of a sudden a finger falls off! Yep, you 
just got Degeneration at -5! Congrats! Roll D10 to see which finger...")

Hmmm... maybe the first powers manifest only with gaining the Hindrances as 
well? That would stress the point that it's not all merry-laughter, when 
you're walking around dead...

Markus

At 07:51 22.04.2003, Cyvas, Andrew J PR2 (VFA115) wrote:
 >Just my two cents, but why would a new harrowed have any powers if they do
 >not know they are dead?
 >
 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: Nick Zachariasen [mailto:zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu]
 >Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 17:20
 >To: deadlands@gamerz.net
 >Subject: Re: [DL] Becoming Harrowed (potential spoilers)
 >
 >
 >>  >Spoilers
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>  >I don't think so, part of the Harrowed hinderances is to pay for
 >starting
 >>  >off with some harrowed powers, I think newly activated harrowed have to
 >>  >power thier powers from zero with regular bounty.
 >>
 >>
 >> IIRC.  Not quite  - characters who become harrowed do get the 5 free
 >points
 >> of harrowed powers, as balanced by the inherent disadvantages of being
 >> Harrowed.
 >
 >No, I believe you ONLY get the 5 free points if you're Harrowed from
 >creation, not from becoming Harrowed. If you die and come back, then you can
 >spend Bounty to gain powers but you don't get anything free.
 >
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