RE: Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable?

From: Sam Elliot <samclau_at_...>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:04:40 -0300

No idea. (For a fight, plenty of systems, but that is but one situation.) I don't have the solution, only the problem. I think that's the sort of thing where Robin earns his money or his fame, though. Sam.

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  From: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of L.Castellucci   Sent: 19 July 2007 20:30
  To: WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com   Cc: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com   Subject: Re: [WorldofGlorantha] Re: Ho Much Rule fiddling Is Tolerable?

  On July 19, 2007 06:55 pm, Sam Elliot wrote:

> Um - I know this was ported over to the rules list but since LC
addressed
> this to me here (WoG) and there were a bunch of responses here...those
> responses pretty much answer the question. Still, my point was: The
options
> for a group with the same goal are (1) a simple contest where there is
one
> principal actor augmented by the others, (2) an extended contest where
> different people may pitch in as main actor in the different rounds, (3)
> group extended contest.

  A question though. What other game system handles it any better? I can't see
  the solution much easier in a case of building a ship in D&D, for example.

> p.s. A clarification for my original point - I said "at some times"
meaning
> to exclude truly ensemble play - when everyone is going in a different
> direction (as in an Altman movie) - there it is great.

  Indeed.