RE: [HoE] Junkman Cometh/Huckster ?

["Patrick Phalen" <pphalen@gti.net>]

>>But Hucksters are *supposed* to be rare in HoE.  IMNSHO, PEG *finally* did
>>something to make an AB rare!
>
>But...they didn't.  By making essentially a self-destructing AB, they made
>it a non-usable Arcane Background.  That doesn't make it rare:  it
>makes it
>masochistically suicidal.  I wouldn't use NPCs as Hucksters:
>what's the fun
>or adventure-challenge in having NPCs who go up in a puff of smoke
>the first
>time they draw a hand?

Here's a better fix, then...
Go back to the *original* Huckster rules, before the Kinder, gentler
backlash.
PEG changed it a bit in H&H because people complained that it was too hard
to play a  Huckster.  Now you're complaining that (compared to DL) HoE
Hucksters are too hard.  Go back to the Original rules and (with the
exception of the +4 for backlash), you have about as much parity as can be
expected in a game where the good guys have already lost!

Besides, if you ever Marshalled a Huckster in DL, you would know that it
still isn't a walk in the park, either.  A slight change in theory (the
percentages), won't really make that much of a difference in practice.


Patrick