> From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Three Way Internal Contests?
> To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 1:46 PM
> At 11:58 a.m. 28/11/2008, you wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately this isn't what I'm after.
> I'm not looking for a
> >contest that resolves "instinct vs right
> action".
> >I'm looking for a contest between "instinct vs
> personal agenda vs
> >cultural imperatives". It's a three-way
> contest.
>
> However that introduces another level of dice-rolling for
> little fun
> in my eyes.
Indeed. Extra dice-rolling is what I wanted to avoid.
> A better way to handle it might be to have the base
> impulses
> available as automatic
> augments, thus if your 'newt hero has wrath at 1w3, it
> will have an +6 augment
> begging to be used ("give in to the dark side! you
> know you want
> to!!) every time
> it swings its klanth. And if it gives in, then wrath gets
> feed.
That makes more sense. The instinct acts as an augment and the competition is actually between egotistical action and cultural imperatives.
Thanks, I'll give that a go.
All the best,
Lev
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