Re: [HoE] Templar Discussion

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

>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

My problem here, which I touched on earlier, is that almost by definition, 
most non-evil Chosen/Mutants are going to fail the Templar "worthiness" 
test.  They're been outcasts, scorned, attacked on sight by norms, wrought 
from within with a variety of sometimes-crippling mental and physical 
handicaps (I always visualize them as Jokers from the Wild Card anthology 
series).

Unless they're relatively close to Las Vegas and/or a satellite community of 
Silas' (and if they are, the Templar probably won't be helping them anyway), 
they're going to respond to most newcomers with all the generosity of a 
kicked dog.  Which is exactly the kind of thing that begs for 
purple-Doomsayer intervention.

Now, I suppose the Templar code might let them make an exception, and allow 
for the extenuating circumstances of the Chosen.  But darn if I can find 
anything anywhere in source material that suggests that Templars try to make 
excuses for the "unworthy" and help them anyway.  You sure as heck get the 
idea Joan wouldn't put up with these "unworthy" types, and she's presented 
as a example of sorts (as much as we are given any such example) of what 
Templars should be like.

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Steve Crow

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