Re: [HoE] Multiple backgrounds

[IronPen@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/99 2:07:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, PEGShane@aol.com
writes:

<<  Also I noted in the CotA book how HoE did not usually allow a character to
  have two backgrounds.  Is this now, or will this soon be the same for
  Deadlands?  We have a Martial Artist who is also a Taoist Blessed in our
  group and I was wondering if this was a legit configuration?  (the marshal
  is fine with it, so it's legit in our game, but as a marshal myself I was
  wondering for my own games...) >>
 
 Nope. It's HOE only.
 
 Shane >>

OK, but what about Junkers?  Every arcane background except for Junkers (and
possibly Sykers) is given after birth.  Would there be anything preventing
Simon from granting his Rewards to a Junker?  (Or a Syker, for that matter).
Likewise, if a Junker took enough mutations, couldn't he somehow become a
radpriest?  This is especially true for Templar, as I think Simon can grant
Rewards to anyone he chooses.  If he wanted to (though he probably doesn't),
couldn't he grant Rewards to a Doomsayer or a Syker (who trained for a year)?
The same thing for Witches, it seems like anyone with a keen eye could
interperet "How to Serve Your Man".  I know that in my game I can do whatever
I want (I think we've all heard_just_about enough in this regard!), but I like
to stick to the reasonably conventional.  Is there anything in particular
preventing any old schmoe from becoming a Templar or Witch, despite a previous
arcane background?

-jesse