Re: Singing 10%, Snooker 85% (was: stuff)

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:56:35 -0000

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "markmohrfield" <markmohrfield_at_...> wrote:
  >
  > --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "ttrotsky2" <TTrotsky@>
  > wrote:
  > It's a great disappointment to me that future
  > > supplements look to be all either supporting RQ or HQ2-style play. Of
  > > course, I can (and will) adapt them, but that's going to be a bunch of
  > > work, and I can't help but feel left out in the cold by the HQ2
  > approach.
  > >
  >
  > Surely HQ 1.0 and 2.0 aren't so disimilar as to make it that difficult
  > to convert between them? I think we may be making mountains out of
  > molehills here.
  >
  

If HQ2 publications are essentially stat-free, as seems to be the intent, then, actually, yes, it will be as difficult to translate them into HQ1 as it would be to translate MRQ into HQ1. Translating an absence of stats is really no different than translating stats with a totally different premise - in fact, its actually more or less the same thing.

Now, if, on the other hand, the HQ2 publications are going to include numbered stats then you're right; the difference in actual mechanisms are too small to make any noticeable difference. But this does not appear to be the case.

Having said which, my own submitted books for Moon Design do have such numbered stats, and I'm still hoping they will be retained, and that other writers will do the same. But it's not what I'd call a very *big* hope...

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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