RE: [HOE] Re: Doomesayers

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> Technically, you'll still need some score to replace the Faith:Glow.  Sykers
> have unattached Blastin' stats and get die types from different places, but
> rad priest powers are all based on the Faith/Spirit.  If envisioned as the
> character pulling power from the Hunting Grounds by force of will, then the
> new character having a Faith:Nuclear Physics based on Spirit makes sense.
> Sykers and such use (in my mind) more of a personal energy, so their
> Blastin' score is applied to different stats/die types (IIRC).  And he'd
> still need some kind of Arcane Background.

Actually syker's blastin' skill is knowledge based. The only ones I can
think of that use different traits for the basis of their arcane skill are
Deadlands based (hucksters and shamans for their rituals). They kind of
went away from that in HoE. Which is nice, it's such a pain for a char. to
have to keep up 4 or 5 different stats just to be effective with his
hexslinging while the priest is happily raising his faith to 7d12...

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> Now, whether the Glow is sentient or not, that is a different thing that
> doesn't necessarily impact the character you are trying to create.  I don't
> recall anything in the books that makes a definite unmistakeable statement
> one way or the other.  The Purple and the Green believe mutants are better,
> and they believe norms will fade away, and they believe that the Glow is the
> source of all the great mutations, and are willing to fight to make their
> points, but there isn't any "I talked to the Glow this morning and it told
> me I'm a good Rad Priest" kinda stuff.

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Another spice to add to the mix is the sticky subject (for Doomsayers) of
Rad Shamans. They can manipulate the Glow, and sometimes better than
Doomsayers, without any mutation or faith or anything. Worse, radiation is
just one aspect of a larger sum (rad, trash, smog, sludge) to them! Worse
still, Rad Shamans can actually make themselves immune to all of the
Glow's effects, including doomie miracles! Chew on that for awhile :)

> Wow, I better stop now before this gets any longer.  But I've managed to
> intrigue myself.  An order of monks that believe "mutations happen" but not
> that mutants are necessarily superior, seeking enlightenment thru
> meditation, study of nuclear physics and application of microwaves to many
> things.  A few of the brothers could be Junkers, building particle
> accelerators and such.  And the brothers are learning that the Glow is more
> than just spiritual radiation...  the Glow actually answers a few prayers...
> I've got to get my campaign to the HOE setting...

 Theo McGuckin
	"Putting the Mentor back in Tormentor"