Re: [HoE] Time Travel: HoE vs. Deadlands

[Steve Wallace <ceesrw@cee.hw.ac.uk>]

> >Time machine is listed as an example of the technology that
> >required a Royal Flush.  That's pretty hard to get - from
> >Allen Seyberths Poker Hand sumamry (on my web-page (plug,
> >plug)) the odds of a Royal Flush on 9 cards (roll of 25+)
> >without pulling a Joker (remember, that means Dementia and
> >worse for an MS) are 0.01%.  Even allowing Jokers, the
> >probability is a mere 0.29%, and the MS gets spanked by the
> >manitou for the priviledge.
> >
> 
> It may be hard, but "statting" it allows for the possibility of a player 
> achieving it.  As Pinnacle notes, and I wouldn't dispute, statting something 
> allows for it to happen, and throws up a red flag for the players to try and 
> achieve.

Try and achieve.  They need a Royal Flush to get the 
blueprint, and then they have to try and find the resources 
to build the thing.  Marshal's caveat here - if they get a 
blueprint, they can build the thing - but it shouldn't be a 
picnic.

<snippage>
 
> However, wasn't there something afoot near Devil's Tower (in the Wasted West 
> Companion, I think it's mentioned) to send someone back in time and stop the 
> events of the Tower o' Fear adventure?  So were the Junker scientists using 
> time travel there?  But if they got their time travel knowledge from 
> manitous, and there was no time-travel tech in 2060 for the manitous to 
> "loan" to Mads, where'd it come from...?

Boring human ingenuity?  No manitou involvement?  A long 
shot, but it might just work...

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