Re: [HoE] Junkman Cometh

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

> Well, maybe it's just me, but is that kind of MacGyver-ish improviser what 
> the Junker is intended to be?  That wasn't the impression I got from going 
> through the Junker book.  Although maybe I was too busying reading the "new" 
> Huckster rules...  ;)

Lets not go there again.  That's a Bad Place.  I look at 
HoE as the scavange what you can and use it for whatever 
you can type of post-apocalyptic setting.  Not many 
templars carry swords in my games - crowbars, hockey sticks 
and sections of scaffolding are more common.  MacGuyvering 
a rocket launcher out of a drainpipe and some firecrackers 
isn't really a junker option, but with something stronger 
as a propellant, something that looks like the bastard 
offspring of a drainpipe and a mortar isn't out of the 
question.

> 
> The whole gadget-building thing is a problem we've noted since Mad 
> Scientists and Deadlands.  Building a gadget in the middle of is, as far as 
> we could tell, a really bad thing.  The Junker rules, although using a 
> different system, seem to fall into the same thing.

DL Mad Scientists couldn't build ther gadgets on the fly 
because they needed to interpret what the manitou told them 
- that's why they'd go crazy.  
Junkers are a different barrel of monkeys - they beat the 
knowledge out of a manitou or do a song and dance routine 
to get the spirit of someones toaster to enter their new 
and improved wheel-nut shotgun.  (Guess which paradigm I 
preferred...)
Junkers shuld have the potential to jury-rig a gadget - 
they know most of the science they need, and they're only 
missing a manitou/tech spirit to make their junk into a 
working gadget.  When the groups junker says he wants to 
build something, the rest of the group shouldn't be able to 
head off for a few drinks before carrying on with the 
game...

--

If our eyes ever have to meet for more than just one second
Then if you weren't already there I would tell you to go to hell
But if I spend my whole damn life trying to think of a curse for you
It would never be as bad as the curse that you dealt to yourself
--
Steve Wallace
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