Relative resistances and narrow/broad abilities

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From: Olli Kantola <newsalor_at_...>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:19:52 +0200 (EET)

Hello,

I don't have access to HQ2 draft although I managed to page thru it once. Perhaps this is premature anyway, because the new HeroQuest isn't coming out until 2012. ;)

Anyway, I was thingking about narrow and broad abilities, devotees and stuff and relative resistances. It seems to me that there is no point in having abilities narrow or broad if this relative resistances thing works like it sounds like it works.

Let's say that I have:

Pitiful Ability 13
Narrow Ability 10W
Broad Ability 10W
Augmenting Ability 15

Now, if the resistance is going to be 5 bigger than my final number, who cares if I get +6 for a narrow ability? Why not just use the Pitiful Ability instead. Perhaps it's better color anyway, if the actual name of the ability is nifty enough.

Am I getting something wrong here or what? I have confidence in Robin's game design fu, but following this conversation is bound to confuse anyone. =)

Olli Kantola

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