- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, ASHLEY MUNDAY
<aescleal_at_b...> wrote:
> Keith said:
>
> "But if someone bothers to mention playing fox and
> geese in their narrative it is not because they are
> slightly good at it."
>
> If they're more than "slightly good at it" they'd
> spend some of their initial points on it. e.g. same
> character had a relationship "taught by Uncle Hrolf
> 1W." That was more important than the "Play fox and
> geese ability 13" to the player so he spent some
> points on it.
>
> Moral of this one is: If something is really important
> to your character, then spend some of your starting
> points on it. You can't get "Impressive beard 5W" out
> of the box, but you can get 3W.
Sorry Ash, but personally I'm with Keith on this one. If I sat down
to write a 100-word description of myself, there are all sorts of
peripheral things I can do quite well that nonetheless wouldn't make
it into the narrative simply because they were bumped out of it by
things I do even better or which are more important to me (these two
need not be quite the same, after all!).
Distilling anyone's life, character, relationships and goals into
100 words ought to be difficult, and ought IMO thus to end up with
key descriptors, not the random 'not bad at x' ephemera.
All the best
Mark