Re: Re: Equipment Mod Oddity

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:13:03 -0400

I'm curious as to why edges were mostly cast by the wayside. It seems to me like it had a lot to do with the fact that edges as written don't make much sense in simple contests and that they make the math harder. Just better to simplify everything, I suppose. But it does seem a mechanic that works well in extended contests.

LC

On 18 May 2004 at 15:24, Michael Schwartz wrote:

> Waaaaaay back in February of 2001, this topic came up and I proposed
> a very simple solution. Follow this link:
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> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HeroQuest-rules/message/8334
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> In brief, do away with equipment augments entirely unless one person
> has clearly superior or vastly superior equipment (worth +1 and +2,
> respectively). You can factor as much grittiness as you prefer into
> this: chainmail armor is superior to cuirboulli and vastly superior
> to leather; iron weapons are superior to rune-metal ones and vastly
> superior to bronze ones; being mounted on a warhorse in combat is
> superior to being mounted on a normal horse and vastly superior to
> being on foot.
>
> It worked better with edges, as the method nicely modeled the "well-
> equipped nobleman vs. Harrek" contest, where all the fancy stuff in
> the world won't much improve the nobleman's odds of winning, but it
> helps him get a good lick in if he does win an exchange, and forces
> Harrek to take greater risks (i.e., bid higher) to achieve the same
> effect. It still works somewhat well with augments, though it is not
> quite so elegant. :)
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