Re: [HOE] Relic: The Slugger

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

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>You know, this is pretty damn cool.

Thanks!

>I'll have to introduce this into one of
>my games.  So what's the Taint and what ever became of Samantha?

Hmm, good questions. :) The idea originally popped into my head while looking at
the woman with the baseball cap in the Gas Eaters illustration in Road Warriors;
I got to thinking about running a ex-baseball-player hero and what kind of
weapon she might carry. As far as I'm concerned, Sam is alive and well and still
adventuring with bat in hand, though I haven't yet had an opportunity to play
her. Of course, if you want to give your players the Slugger, she'll have to
have either lost it, had it stolen, or been killed. If either of the former,
she'd be desperately wanting it back; if the latter, Simon would be extremely
grateful for its return to the Temple in Boise. He may grumble to himself every
time he sees that filthy old baseball bat wrapped in rusty barbwire hanging
beside the shining swords of fallen knights, but he wouldn't dream of denying
such a heroic Templar a place in the Hall of Heroes. As for Taint, I hadn't
thought about that; it probably wouldn't have any when wielded by Sam, as it was
enchanted by her hand. In another's grip, it would probably bestow some aspect
of her personality (Heroic, Stubborn, whatever sounds good) or give Intolerance
and Enemy for who or whatever killed her. If you wanted to play up the baseball
aspect, it could give Hankerin' and Habit: Chewing Tobacco. :) Anyone else have
any ideas.

--Robert Holland