>> having everyone who isn't renowned for their Strength fail to bash
>> open flimsy doors, everyone who isn't remarkably resistant being
>> crippled by the common cold, and everyone of middling size getting
>> stuck in unremarkably narrow openings, I prefer to hunt for any
>> credible Improvised ability first before relying on the default.
> Yes. I think that improvisation is one of the key things to get right when > playing Hero Wars. Narrators need to relax and allow most improvisations > (with appropriate penalty) and players need to get creative with > personality traits, feats and so forth.
As well as improvisation, getting a feel for "things no self-respecting hero would fail at" and not invoking the rules when one of them comes up would help. At least in the deliberately trivial examples Wulf cites above.
> Mind you, this isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Agreed. But HW was never meant to be a game about accurately simulating the ability of people of middling size to squeeze through unremarkably narrow openings. Trying to use it as one could cause problems.
Cheers, Nick
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