RE: Re: The merits of relative and absoluteresistances (HQ1 and HQ2)

From: Matthew Cole <matthew.cole_at_...>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:57 -0000

no it's not a sham. it's all about the names of the abilities narrated in. the whole idea of a narrative game is to narrate: I narrate the scene (frame), players (and/or I) narrate their heroes' part in it. etc etc. same as I said before. you only look at numbers for a brief second and don't need to think about them at all.
as far as comparing adjectives and adverbs goes - there has never been an empirical method that I know of (I'm sure someone would correct me there) - why worry about it? - go with the general concensus, go with your gut feeling, go with story logic, test things for credibility. this is narrativism dude. relax into it.
listen to me - I was in just your position some time ago. best advice I can give is: try it out, read about it, talk about it but do try it without falling back into old ways. more advice: you won't get it straightaway so don't feel like you've failed if you hit the tarmac. be like Neo: no amount of "free my mind, free my mind" will stop you hittinf that sidewalk at 120m/s/s :D

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From: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Ellis Sent: 10 March 2009 16:51
To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: The merits of relative and
absoluteresistances (HQ1 and HQ2)

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_ <mailto:HeroQuest-rules%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Cole" <matthew.cole_at_...> wrote: >
  > roll augment
  > roll conflict
  >
  > this is hardly described in terms of numbers at all, right?
  >
  

It's rolling dice against target numbers. If you are managing to do this without reference to numbers then you are not using any d20 I've ever seen...

> 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.

Strange, because I haven't got a clue. A Great Warrior is almost certainly better than a Good one, but I have no meaningful comparison between a Great one, A Superb one, a Magnificent one or any of the other synonyms there might be.

What if it's a three way comparison. The Trolls have captured us all and say that to obtain my freedom I must fight one or the other. Is the choice just a sham, because the relative resistance will be "hard" regardless?

> If I had both of their skills written down I wouldn't be able to
> answer that question so easily.
>

Who'se more likely to win , Warrior 5W or Warrior 5W2? This is much clearer than Vetran vs Experienced to me.

> Surely this means that numbers are actually harder?
>

Blackadder: If You have 2 apples, and I give you 2 more apples what do you have?
Baldrick: Some Apples!