[HoE] those minor questions

[Coucouvinis <deimos@tig.com.au>]

>      I don't think their swords are magical.  Now that's not to say that
> there are some out there that are magical and I would bet bullets that
> there are more than a few Relics that are old Templar Swords.  I know as
> much as you do about the Templars and personally, I think there is
> something not quite right about ol' Simon so I don't think his "blessing"
> amounts to much.
>

I tend to agree about Simon, but given that oathbreaker Templars keep their powers, Simon's blessing, if
it's actually something more than just some words, should still have some effect, regardless of how many
ferrets he lubes up...

> Ouch.  Way too powerful if you do the five lots of 3d10 all to the Guts.  I
> agree completely.  The Autofire option is the way I would go.  The
> description says that they can be targeted at a single target so I wouldn't
> penalize the damage of each bolt.  In your example above, each bolt does
> 3d10 damage but since he only got two Raises, only 3 bolts manage to hit
> the Target.  And like you said, only the first bolt gets to be a Called
> Shot.

Again, this sounds like the best way to go about things, otherwise MIRV will just get taken *instead* of
Atomic Blast rather than as well as - don't want the players thinking "Hey, if I just take MIRV and drop
Atomic Blast, then I have room for Microwave..."

> I sort of forgot about that Oath of Blood part.  I looked it up and it
> mentions that other Templars will go after their own who gain their power
> through theft, murder, etc...
> I have since asked him to give me an explanation of why his Templar
> Character doesn't think that he committed murder.  Although maybe it should
> be done in game and he can give his explanation to the Templar who caught
> wind of a story about another Templar who had run through a Savage with his
> sword.

In game would be the way to go - that way, if he screws up, he gets a big ol' smackdown...I'm also
playing in a Deadlands game at the moment, and one of the other characters is a Wolf Shaman with the
hindrances Bloodthirsty and Vengeful...in the HoE game I run, I've pretty much disallowed those two
hindrances as well as Grim Servant o'Death (unless the player has a good background explanation and puts
his own limits on it, like "no children") because they get abused so much and tend to make it harder for
the rest of the posse to progress in the campaign. Either they're constantly explaining their
compatriot's actions, or being blamed for their compatriot's actions, or sometimes those actions just
make it darn tricky to get valuable information.

It's usually pretty tricky to get information from a dismembered corpse...

Thanks for your reply.

Nick.
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