Re: Re: Heroquest rules - Equipment

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:36:21 +0100 (BST)

• Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...> wrote:
  > Take, for example, that scene at the end of the "Rob
  > Roy" flick ten years or
  > so back. There's a duel between Liam Neeson and Tim
  > Roth, both of them
  > first-class swordsmen. But they're fighting
  > unarmored, and Neeson is using
  > his broadsword--a weapon which sacrifices finesse
  > for power, great if you
  > need to slice through thick leather on the
  > battlefield but a bad choice for
  > an unarmored duel.
  

And that example just shows why fiddling around with equipment bonuses leads to arguments, because at this point us sword geeks pull out George Silver and start arguing that the broadsword is the superior weapon. (Possibly we also pull out a rapier and a broadsword to demonstrate). You didn't want that argument mid-game, did you? (Or here). Thought not. So give one side a bonus for agility, give the other side an equal bonus for power, cancel them out, and leave the differences to dramatic description.

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