Re: Mastery Jumps

From: simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_...>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:08:09 -0000

> Simon
>
> > Hero Wars should be about
> > characetrs heroquesting to gain heroic levels of power and
> > using the magical secrets gained from those quests to change the
> > world. instead [of] the gradualist approach to eventual super-
power
>
> If Hero Wars didn't involve group play, I'd agree completely.
> However, it does involve groups. Most of the heroquests we've
played
> (and that I recall being presented by Greg/Issaries) result in a
> reward for a single person.
....

> So if heroquesting is the intended way to gain heroic levels, we
need
> a much better set of heroquests that can give someone who is *not*
> playing Orlanth the chance to increase just as well.

I agree, Jim Chapin's suggestion of a book of heroquests is on the mark. My intuition is that apart from specific heroquests for particular items, powers, etc there are also more 'routine' heroquests, for example the ritual/quest for becoming a king, to be able to lead cult rituals in Holy Season, to be able to raise your abilities above w3(pet theory).

At the moment HW just says there are quests and you ought to be doing them, but I think it's highly desirable to make heroquests unavoidable on a character's route to power.

I do fo course realise that this isn't going to happen overnight, it's going to take time to thrash out how to do this and to write up the quests, but it's not something we should be shirking because it's hard.

Simon Hibbs