Re: [HoE] Blasphemy (was Spirit Warriors) [OT]

[AJSolis@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/11/2000 9:40:42 PM Central Daylight Time, 
mgkelly@axom.com writes:

> 
> Quicker and easier to use than Shadowrun. And you don't have to worry as
> much about Toxic Shamans always having more power than your whole team
> combined. And Insect Shamans don't have to make hives or infest people
>  with Insect Spirits.
    Drat. That's the fun of toxic and insect shamans.  :)
    Seriously though, I have a question.  Someone said that they used strain 
these toxic shamans, or perhaps just the shamans of HoE.  Correct?  Does it 
ever say why?  Because I don't see that as making sense.  Strain represents 
the well, strain, of using oneself as a conduit for hunting ground energies.  
Hence, sykers, doomies, HoE martial artists, etc, etc, use strain because 
they channel the energies through themselves.  Others of a more theurgical 
bent (like the hucksters or blessed) do not, because they don't channel the 
energy through themselves.  Or at least that is how I understand it.
   And Shamans are most definitely of a theurgical bent, unless I've missed 
something.  If anything, I could see worrying about drain to represent the 
taxing of their spirit allies (like a cyborg taxes its manitou), but that's 
all.