While there are some things a I greatly appreciate in HQ 2.0 - the Victory Track, the much much much better Extended Contest Mechanic - I think going the way of scaling everything so that's its challenging to the Heroes and not trying to even vaguely simulate/model a world was sort of a cop-out. To each their own, I suppose.
I'm not saying that you need to be a super completist about translating DnD keywords/abilities/etc into HQ.. it just that you can, easily, and it would take little time, and be quite playable.
-Santo
aum shanti shanti shantih.
"The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story." - from
the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:44 AM, matthew.cole <matthew.cole_at_...>wrote:
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> (To Santo: have you tried just playing a character in a HQ2 game? Do I
> detect that you have either just read the book or just run a game?)
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> On 4 August 2011 17:23, Santo Sengupta <aumshantih_at_...> wrote:
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> > Namaste:
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> > I'm a HeroQuest 1.0 Grognard - 2.0 is nifty, but the lack of
> simultationism
> > left me a bit cold. I *liked* knowing what M2 vs M4 or even crazy M7-9
> > meant in Glorantha, regardless of game balance issues.
> >
> > Here's my take:
> >
> > Actually, 4E would be really easy to convert, as all their nifty
> Abilities
> > and Class Features and Powers can just be used as HQ Abilities names.
> >
> > For example:
> > Keyword: Eladrin
> > Natural Fey Humanoid, Low Light Vision, Speak Common, Speak Elven,
> Eladrin
> > Education, Eladrin Longsword Training, Eladrin Will, Fey Step, Trance
> State
> >
> > Keyword: Wizard
> > Wear Cloth Armor, Wield Dagger/Staff, Use [Magic Implement], Strong Will,
> > Arcana + 3 Skills, Wizard Cantrips, Ritual Casting, Spellbook.
> >
> > Class Features/Feats/Powers you'd just use the name of it.
> >
> > As folks level up, they can add to Keywords/individual skills, and unlock
> > more feats/powers/crunch as per "normal" DnD. Hell, "Level" could be this
> > meta keyword, and you could roughly map them to mastery levels.
> >
> > -Santo
> > aum shanti shanti shantih.
> > "The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story." - from
> > the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
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