Re: HeroQuest (2nd Ed) will be avaible this June!

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:53:00 -0000

>
> Trotsky
>
> >I don't know whether the GM of my group will want to change to HQ2
> >or not, but if he does, I'll definitely be wanting to convert my
> > PC, rather than create anew.
>
> If you come up with a conversion process, more power to you!
>
> We made no effort to in 2nd edition, and I have been disappointed by
> the results in years past.
>
> In my experience, HQ2 character sheets end up looking rather
> different from HQ1 character sheets. Not only far fewer abilities
> (due to using umbrella keywords), but some players had dumped a lot
> of HP into affinities (minimum of 3 HP each increase) and Mythology.

It's a statement of intention, not necessarily of achievability. Just because I *want* to do something, doesn't mean the system will let me :)

And, of course, it may not even be relevant, since I don't know what my GM plans in that regard. (In games I GM, I'll just stick with HQ1, with the odd tweak here and there, so the issue won't arise there - but I'm more forgiving of system as a player than I am as a GM).

> Although now that I think about it, one could do a bit of
> rules-bashing -- just as you could use the HQ1 AP bidding system
> with
> HQ2, you could use HQ2's extended contests with HQ1.

And this I will do when I'm GMing; it's one of the few genuine improvements in HQ2 to my mind (and a big one it is, too).

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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