Re: [HoE] The Junkman Cometh (light rantery) - MacGuyver

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

If they want the MacGuyver Junker I'd hand them Thaumaturgical Diffusion
from the City o' Gloom and tell them to play a Huckster/Junker. Add some of
the Hexes in TD with the Tool Trick, Jury Rigging, and they got what they
want for the most part. I love JC and the way Junkers are. Granted there are
bugs in the system but they were never going to be a
fly-by-the-set-of-their-pants Hucksters who used technology as a focus.
Junkers where Mad Scientists first and them dabbled in the Occult, but there
mind set was always 'Science' no matter how loose they played things.
Science is a slow process and so is the process of Occult Engineering, after
all it's still Engineering!

But hew that's just my thoughts.

Christopher Merrill
W.H.A.T.T. Member
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Steflik <grifflik@stny.rr.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 11:21 PM
Subject: [HoE] The Junkman Cometh (light rantery) - MacGuyver


>Rick Ranallo wrote:
>
>> Nowhere does anything imply that Junkers should be MacGuyver.  There is
nothing
>> to imply that a device should be built in a couple combat rounds.  It is
an
>> involved process for the junker building it.
>>
>
>I'm with you on this.  I personally have nothing against the Junker
>rules and think they work fine.  It's pretty clear what Hopler intended
>with the character type and how it should work and MacGuyver isn't it.
>I brought up the point the other day however, that it seems pretty
>obvious that there are a number of people who would like to play a
>"magic MacGuyver" type of  character.  I'm all for keeping my players
>happy, and if they wanted to do something like this I'd try to oblige -
>but I'd tell them it wouldn't be a true Junker.  I suggested on the list
>that this could be done as separate character type from Junker, but
>maybe utilize some Junker abilities as a spring board (perhaps an
>expansion on Jury Rigging) with severe limitations on size and
>stability.  Heck, maybe it would be a character that's not a Junker, but
>is a "one trick pony" and has the Jury-Rig tool trick? Is there no one
>else with thoughts on this?  Not even you fellow MacGuyver fans?
>Perhaps I'm kicking a dead horse.  Sigh.  Well, perhaps I'll try to come
>up with something quick and dirty on my own just in case one of my
>players ask.
>
>Matt "give me a stick of gum, some tinfoil, and a swiss army knife and
>I'll take over the world" Steflik
>
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