Re: [HoE] Templar Discussion

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

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>A problem, which no one had commented on before, is that the Templar works 
>best as a solo character, and seems to be conceived as such to a very 
>great degree.  I mean, the whole disguise/sneak-in/evaluate schtick is 
>basically a one-man operation.  How would a Templar, for instance, 
>disguise himself as a beggar and sneak into a town if his group just 
>marched in and presenting themselves as people to suck-up to in return for 
>protection?
I agree. the problem has arisen in my game (in terms of discussion)



>At best, this involves a bit of "one player off on his own" adventuring. 
>While I'm not adverse to that entirely, I don't want to see the Templar 
>doing it every time they arrive in a new town that needs help, either. And 
>that still leaves the issue if what if the Templar finds the town unworthy 
>(most Chosen probably wouldn't help normals after years of prejudice and 
>hatred - wouldn't that automatically make them 'unworthy'?), but the 
>Doomsayer and/or the rest group help the town anyway, for personal 
>reasons, because they disagree with the Templar, for pay, whatever.
>
>What's a Templar to do then?

factoring in here, too:
what if there are Mutants there and the Doomie is a Hekant? or the Doomie 
is purple and they are interested in Joan.  There could easily be conflict 
there.  My group has two Templars, a companion, a Hekant Doomie and a Syker 
(Dragons)  The Sykers Knee-Jerk reaction is to help people, being a Dragon 
(the unit Dragons, no no one is missing a book about Dragons. ;-)).  The 
Doomie wants to help Mutants.  She has an Oath to think of too.
Inevitably, there will be conflict, and I don't want to see a split-up, but 
I am not sure what to do. Unless the people are obnoxious the Syker will 
want to help and if there are any Muties the Doomie will.  So what happens 
when one/both of the Templars get pissed and decide not to help.  On the 
one hand, if my Plot was for the PCs to help/intervene, I'd be tempted to 
give the Templars a chip for Roleplaying and tell them to sit back while 
those who want to do my adventure do it. But thats not really fair.  I am 
familiar with a game that encountered problems when the Templar decided to 
not help people so the other PCs followed.    To me, if the others wanna 
help, then they should be able to...perhaps its a weakness of playing a 
Templar that sometimes you will do some sitting out if you decided they do 
not deserve it.



>On the other hand, making most towns "worthy" to avoid this kind of party 
>dissent kind of takes away from the flavor of the Templars anyway.
seems to be the rout the adventures take



>Don't get me wrong - Templars _should_ be picky about who is worthy.  But 
>no one yet, on the list or from Pinnacle or in a sourcebook, has really 
>answered the question adequately of how Marshals should handle this when 
>it comes to fracturing a group or driving one character off on his own as 
>a result.


I agree.

TBS