Re: Augmenting to Augment?

From: bigblackcatmail <bigblackcatmail_at_...>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:19:59 -0000

Mkay. Now, unless I'm on some heavy cough medicine or have some arcane advance printing of HeroQuest, there's something that really is missing from this discussion (and surprisingly from the getgo).

The situation below depends entirely on whether or not Brute McHulk is a follower of Smoothie Ap Talk. And by that I mean an NPC sidekick/follower/whatever on Smoothie Ap Talk's sheet.

Because, if he's not, then the player (by the HeroQuest rules as I've played/run/understand them) has to roll for the augment.

>From my understanding of the rules, one player's character may not automatically augment another player's character.

The same standard applies in HeroQuest with AP lending.

So, from my interpretation, if Brute McHulk is a follower of Smoothie Ap Talk, then Smoothie Ap Talk gets a +4 auto augment from Brute McHulk. If Brute McHulk is another player's character, then Brute McHulk rolls for a variable augment with a rating of 4w.

Otherwise, simple contests are way open to abuse, IMO.

I don't know why this hasn't already been mentioned. We've used this in Mike's ShadowWorld-HQ game and it's totally in line with the AP lending rules (if my memory is playing tricks on me and it isn't actually written in the rules).

It's how I've always played/run it. I'd be surprised if the "official" ruling was otherwise, especially since rolling for the variable augment puts the players in a much less passive role than just throwing out augments at the other players.

Scott

wrote:
>
> Reading someone else's play by post game, I was struck by a
different interpretation of
> augmenting someone else.
>
> Say Brute McHulk wants to augment his leader's Bargain.
>
> He stands behind his leader, Smoothie Ap Talk, and is Huge 20 while
Looking Scary
> 2W.
>
> I've run this as Huge augments Looking Scary = 4W, which is the
final target number Brute
> uses to augment Smoothie. So Brute augments +2 if he goes for the
automatic gain.
>
> In the Play by post game I'm reading, Brute gets to augment
Smoothie with EACH
> appropriate skill, so Brute's Huge and Scary Looking both add +2 to
Smoothie. That's twice
> the effect.
>
> I suppose you could say that each augment requires an unrelated
action, so the latter
> example would take more rounds to prep. On the other hand, you
could say the same
> thing about Brute augmenting his own Scary Looking with Huge.
>
> The Augmenting rules don't say anything specific about this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Dawson