Re: [HoE] A request for aid with my campaign

[Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>]

Ralph Dula wrote:

> Hi, all:
>
> I ran the adventure from the back of The Last Crusaders, and the actions of
> my players have sent my campaign spiraling far from the "offical" HOE
> campaign.  To make a long story short (and it is long; I didn't want to
> bore the list with all the details) Boise got overrun by the Destroyer,
> Simon, Biletnikoff, every Templar in town at the time and just about every
> civilian was killed.

!!!
Wow.  I hope the posses got a black chip for that.


> Now I'm happy with this plot twist, but it raises a
> few questions that have to be answered, and I'd appreciate opinions on what
> the answers might be.
>
> First of all, with Simon dead and no replacement having been chosen by him,
> can there be new Templars?  It's been established that it's Simon who
> sparks the focusing of the Saints' powers into an individual when they are
> officially made a Templar.  Without him to invest the power into people,
> how can there be new Templars?  Will another Templar suddenly manifest this
> ability and take over his role as head of the Templars, or will they just
> die out?

Remember It's completely up to you. As you stated, there is no official answer
for this, and I doubt there will be.

A few ideas:

Without Simon acting as a catalyst for the saints, you can become a templer
happens spontaniously... but you have to do something damn impressive to get
the attention of the saints.  I mean *really* impressive.

Alternativly a bunch of "normal" templers could try and call down teh favor of
the saints... perhaps instead of just Simon a group of experienced templers is
required to make a new templer.   Entry standards drop as they try to rebuild
their numbers.  This leads to a few "bad" templers with some very twisted
interpretations of the test of worth.



>
>
> Second, what's going to happen to the Fear Level of Boise?  Should I have
> it shoot back up to six, now that the Templars have suffered such a major
> blow?  For that matter, what kind of impact would this have on the Fear
> Levels all across the Wasted West, since so many look to the Templars as
> protectors against the evils of the Reckoners?
>

It should go right back up to at least six. News of this will perculate slowly
across the West, but there are still templers out there.  There should be no
mass fear-levl raising, but as teh number of templers drops over time there
will be less people lowering the fear caused by other abominations.

>
> Finally, does anyone have any opinion on how the major badguys of the
> Wasted West would react?  I'm seeing the Cult of Doom taking the
> opportunity to make a major grab for power, while the Combine proceeds with
> business as usual.
>

If one power group was being held back by the templers only, then now is their
chance.  I dont think this is too likely, since (IIRC) the templers fight all
the bad guys pretty evenly.  What is likely is that the purple doomies will try
to move to take over part of the responsability of the templers, healing the
sick and fighting off abominations in an attempt to increase the publics
perception of them, to get aid in the fight against the evil doomies.



- Doug