I'm not really the person to talk about not using numbers :) lol - I just re-read that. teehee
seriously though I have never thought it through. how do you see that working then?
Laurent's other post:
I'm far more worried about how the mechanics of conflict resolution were
streamlined/fixed/modified/clarified to allow for more dramatic options:
Pyhrric victories, true ebb and flow conflicts, etc.
HQ2 covers Phyrric victories. Could you explain 'true ebb and flow conflicts' please?
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Sent: 10 March 2009 15:33
To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Re: The merits of relative and
absoluteresistances (HQ1 and HQ2)
Not that I don't agree with you, but this does bring up a question I've been meaning to ask.
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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