Re: [HoE] [HOE]

[Phil <pames@unidial.com>]

At 01:04 PM 2/1/99 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 1/31/99 10:09:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>gargano@students.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>> I thought I read a post by someone who said that they asked Shane or
>>  someone about having more than one arcane background and he said that they
>>  could knock themselves out.  Well, I was just curious.
>
>In Deadlands, yes, you can probably manage up to three, but Blessed and
>Shamans are mutually exclusive.  Hell On Earth explicitly forbids this,
>though... page 50, I think someone quoted it earlier?
>
>Hmmm.  Lemme see here.  What would be really gross in DL?
>AB: Huckster (3)
>AB: Mad Sci (3)
>AB: Blessed (3) (Buddhist, Taoist, or maybe Confucian)
>Mech. Inclined (1)
>VotWW (to get more edges)
>Tempest (5)
>Knack (5) (sigh... folks can only have one birthday, right?)
>Martial Arts Training (3)
>Enlightened (2)
>
>Whoa. I think we definately hit Limburgher there, folks. Jeez... sometimes I
>scare myself, you know that?
>
>
>
Two quibbles. Tempest IS a knack. and Hucksters can't be tempests. It's
still cheesy. The most crossing I've allowed IMC is a mad scientist
Non-enlightened martial artist. There have been two Blessed Huckster
NPCs...a friendly old Kabbalist, and his Theurgist correspondence chess
partner. <The posse was hired to deliver the next move in the game by the
Kabbalist...and the route just happened to have a stop in Nacodoches, Texas
on Halloween.

Phil