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>1)
Now, I understand that the manitous are more powerful. >After
about 40 draws of 6 cards and not getting more than >a few
successful castings (without inmplying the increased >minimum
hand from Junkman Cometh), I have to wonder >if
this is just far to difficult. What are everyone's thoughts on >this.
Are hucksters getting smacked down too easily? Have to
say no (though do note Dr. Nick’s comment on the errata). In the WW, Hucksters had to fight for
their power. In HOE, they go into
the fight with a peacemaker and the manitous have chainguns. It is not a “balanced” AB for HOE. If it was, there would be more
Hucksters. >2)
The AB in Junkman Cometh seems to allude to the fact >that
you have to psudo become a Junker before you can >become
a Huckster (or at least by that method). What >about
the good ol' fashion Hoyle's method? Actually,
you have that backwards. The first
Junkers were pre-war metal mages (Huckster/Mad Scientists). Pretty much they exchanged the MS AB
for the Junker AB, but they could still have the Huckster AB separately. Someone
could still be a Huckster by deciphering Hoyle’s; it’d just be tougher to
practice your skills since the war.
No appreciable game effect though. >3)
With the Hoyle's way, what would be the malfunction >numbers
for the good book? I would
say the same as in H&H based off the printing date. I would say any later versions would be
unusable after further editing, so a Huckster would have to find an original or
faithful copy of one of the earlier edition of Hoyle’s. The faithful copy would be easier as a
library could have a copy on disk. >The
biggest thing that is getting me is that the hexes are >really
hard to cast before the restrictions for HoE. Am >I
missing something? Only maybe
that Hucksters aren’t a fixture of the post-Apocalypse, and thus they were made
rare by making them a more dangerous system of magic to follow. Someone
once said, “Playing a huckster in HOE is like pre-screwing your character
before the Marshall can do it. It
doesn’t help you, and the Marshall takes it as a challenge.” ;-) Hope this
helps! Clint Black "You smell that? Do you smell that?
...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the
smell of ghost rock in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed,
for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em,
not one stinkin' Yank body. The smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the
whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..." |