I am puzzled Jane. Do characters in your games have 'Sense ability
rating' or something? It sounds like everyone has a rough idea what
ability ratings folk have.
Regards
Rob
- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
<janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
>
>
> --- Rob <robert_m_davis_at_...> wrote:
>
> > --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane
> > Williams
> > <janewilliams20_at_> wrote:
> >
> > > Of course. A professional warrior with a decade's
> > > experience and warrior skills at 17 would be
> > > inappropriate, so would being two masteries better
> > > than anyone in the universe without some very good
> > > explanation. And they need to slot into the
> > existing
> > > party properly, to take a less extreme example.
> >
> > This means that all your characters have to conform
> > to a fairly rigid set of criteria.
>
> I suppose it depends on what you see as rigid.
> Somewhere between "just good enough to get hired,
> hasn't been in the job long" at 17 and "not quite as
> good as the Legion Champion (yet)" at 2W3, for someone
> who's already in the group and is now being promoted
> from NPC to PC. That's combat skills only, of course,
> and it's other skills that we're usually more
> interested in anyway.
>
> > What about a decent outfitted warrior at 17 and 3
> > heropoints vs your seasoned weapon thane at 10W?
>
> I don't understand the question. What about them?
>
> > There is nothing that
> > says that a green 17 year old cannot start as a
> > better warrior than the
> > tribal champion. Natural talent and all that.
>
> Nothing at all, no. It would certainly be odd, but
> "odd" is what PCs are all about.
>
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