In a message dated 4/21/99 1:16:44PM, you write:
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I suspect your going to get a lot of:
"Mark, what do you do?"
"I use my combat magic, 5 points, and score a standard success."
"Ok, he fails. You get 5, he takes 10 points. OK, Steve, what do you
do?"
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I have to agree that this is a danger but I can see no real way around this.
Unless you reward people for their great descriptions (ie judging their
'literary' merit) it would tend to a catalog of numbers and points. I think
the advantage of HW is the brevity of the mechanism - if it took ages to 'do
' the numbers (like it does in RQ) then no one will decribe every sword swing
- - it would take to long. If every dramatic event has a time allocated to it
dtermined by it's importance (as can be done in HW) then people will have
more enthusiasm for it.
Keith N