Re: Extended Contests

From: Jeff <jakyer_at_...>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:19:41 -0000

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
  > --- "Moah, platypus powaaa!" <MOAH_at_m...>
  > wrote:
  >
  > > So I'm wondering: why? What's wrong with extended
  > > contests?
  >
  > For those of us with little brain, they're too
  > complicated. We end up working out Numbers instead of
  > Story. Which is no fun.
  

And often, they just take too much time.

I don't want a night's gaming coming to a screching halt because the players have decided they want to use an extended contest to cross a river... or for *everything* they do.

I generally reserve them for the major encounters and dramatic climaxes. Going to 'battle mode' is signifcant and special. Ears perk up and a *oh, this is going to be ugly/good/now-we-have- you!/etc* mood suffuses the group.

Jeff