Re: [HOE] A few questions

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

>Hiya all. A while ago, I ran a HOE campaign which, through unfortunate
>circumstances, was forced into a 6-month hiatus. Now i am getting ready to
>re-start it. As I am planning to alter the direction of things, and as the
>group composition has changed slightly to include a Templar, I have a few
>questions. I realize most of the answers are in books already out, but I
>can't yet afford to get the books (though I dearly would love to get the
>Junker and Templar books).
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>Anyhow, on to the questions. For most of these, I don't need hard stats or
>anything, just an idea as to what they are or what is meant. I can work up
>stats of my own until I get the books, but it's nice to have the core ideas
>for inspiration. I'm including spoiler space for those in digest mode who
>may see the responses. : }
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>1) What are anti-templars? I've heard they are empowered by the Reckoners,
>and that they can steal the Greater Rewards of a templar as a form of coup,
>but how accurate is this and is there anything more. Are they an organized
>group, an association of individuals, or people who don't even lie other
>anti-templars?
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They are either templars who left the order, or individuals trained by such 
a person. They gain a Greater Reward by killing a templar, but I don't 
believe there is a correlation between the Templar they kill and the Greater 
Reward they get as a result.  They are basically a loose association of 
individuals - at least, there's been no real suggestion that they are 
banding together in some manner.

>2) I've heard of junkers being 'tainted.' By what? Is it spiritual,
>physical, or moral taint?
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They become megalomaniacal as a result of that taint, due to the influence 
of gun spirits.

>3) Shamans: A) Do 'normal' shamans still exist, or have they been
>all/largely replaced by toxic shamans?
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They still exist, although there doesn't seem to be many outside of the 
Sioux Nation.

>		B) Do the toxic shamans work similar to shamans out of the Weird West
>shamans sourcebook, or do they work radically differently? Are the normal
>nature spirits (animal, elemental, plant) toxically tainted, or are there
>new 'nature' spirits (toxin and radiation being two I can think of, and
>I've heard reference to sludge and smog spirits), or both?
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Four of the five "pollution" spirit types are polluted derivatives of the 
four elements (Radiation = Fire, Sludge = Water, Smog = Air, Trash = 
Garbage).  The fifth "type" are Insect spirits, which are a little 
confusing, IMO - they embrace anyone specializing in any of the four "forms" 
of pollution, as long as it kills humans.

Toxic Shamans work substantially different than the Shamans in Ghost 
Dancers.  They have a Strain-based spirit rather then worry about 
Appeasement points.  They are probably closest in form to Doomsayers from 
the current HoE sets then anything, in that they pay Strain, and how they 
recover that strain is dependent on the environment.

Hope that helps.

>I do believe that's it for right now, though I may have more questions
>later. : }
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>Marshall Paddy


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Steve Crow

"Worm Can Opener Extraordinare"

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