What do you do for Player v Player? Do you use the numbers on the sheet, or do you calculate resistance as "hard", "moderate", etc.
Secondly, I really do wonder now why the players have stats at all other than habit. I am curious if Robin thought about removing stats completely from the game.
(And the more I think about this, the more I wonder if I couldn't take just about any system and just start using relative resistance and it would work as well. Probably not, as ones involving dice pools and such would likely fall apart.)
LC
Matthew Cole wrote:
>
> do you not use this....
>
> frame scene
> identify any meaningful conflict(s)
> identify opposing parties goals (the 'why are you in conflict' part) or
> prize(s)
> determine how they are opposing (what the names of the
> abilities/resistances
> are)
>
> ...?
>
> Next step is:
>
> player(s) narrate any meaningful/interesting/revealing augmentation
> narrator determines resistance using words: moderate, hard, very hard,
> nearly impossible
> roll augment
> roll conflict
>
> this is hardly described in terms of numbers at all, right?
>
> As far as comparisons go, resistances are relative: is it Hard for the
> Experienced guy to overcome the Veteran? This seems a no-brainer to
> me. If I
> had both of their skills written down I wouldn't be able to answer that
> question so easily.
>
> Surely this means that numbers are actually harder?
>
>
> _____
>
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> <mailto:HeroQuest-rules%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Tim Ellis
> Sent: 10 March 2009 13:15
> To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: Re: The merits of relative and
> absoluteresistances (HQ1 and HQ2)
>
> --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_ <mailto:HeroQuest-rules%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Cole"
> > We are looking to tell a story; lets use the building blocks from
> > which stories are made.
> >
> >
>
> Actually, we are looking to play a role-playing game that uses numbers
> (and
> dice) to resolve conflict. So let's describe those conflicts in terms of
> numbers ab initio, so that it is not incumbent on every person running the
> game to translate the narrative into "game-speak" at every juncture.
> If you
> don't like the numbers given, you are always at liberty to make up
> your own,
> so having numbers does nothing to impact people who don't want to use
> them,
> but not having them does impact people who do find them useful.
>
> Narratives, Keywords, 100-word descriptions and all the other bits of
> Heroquest are great. I'd much rather play Heroquest than Runequest, but if
> the "Experienced" Orlanthi Weaponthane is supposed to be a better
> swordsman
> than the "Vetran" Lunar Guardsman I'd rather that be reflected by the
> numbers assigned to their skills than by trying to compare different
> adjectives...
>
>
>
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