Agreed. Using dice to resolve intrigue? BLEAGH!!!!! That sounds like the utter worst in munchkin Vampire play. I've witnessed such. They let their dice play their personalities for them. Of course, I generally dislike any game that takes a mechanistic approach to character personalities.
> I fail to see where anyone could get this idea from. It seems to me that
> HW is perfectly capable of handling this sort of game. Its true that its
> rarely used in the examples, and the scenario material seems (alas) likely to
> avoid this sort of thing too, but the game system can handle it perfectly,
> AFAICS.
But why bother to switch game systems if the material accompanying it
won't support such? Might as well stay where I am, no?
> Fortunately, HW is probably the first system ever published that avoids
> this problem successfully.
I will believe it only upon seeing it, not an instant before. If it has never been before done, what evidence have I that it has been done now? The only way to know is to see for myself. Thus, I say PUBLISH THE GAME!!!!
> Now there, you are out of luck -assuming you mean fine detail imposed by
> the rules system and dice rolls, RQ style.
By fine detail I mean that it doesn't consist of "wing that mutha". If all "detail" in this game consists of telling the GM to "wing it", there's no point to getting the rules.
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