Re: Hero Quest Challenge rules variants

From: epweissengruber_at_...
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:45:27 -0000


Arent great gods 10W6 in EVERYTHING, not just 1 ability

So you have some clever jocko with a 10W6 in Battle Axe: Godchopper challenges Humakt to a duel. Doesn't Humakt have a 10W6 Truesword Stroke for Augmenting his Close Combat:Greatsword? Mightn't "Death" be a blade with an unfathomably huge Edge to it?
>
> Likewise, you can't "just" be a 'hero' with god-like abilities:
> they have to have some 'meaning' in cosmological terms. Thus
> if you try to get [ability] 10W6 from a bunch of penny-ante quests
> strung together, assuming the rules were to suggest such a thing,
> then 'the cosmos' would start to kick back at some point: you'd
> fine the quests increasingly difficult to complete at
those 'levels',
> or else you'd find yourself into 'deeper' "more appropriate quests".
> Or else, having achieved these ability levels, you'd find yourself
> bound by the consequences of your "accidental apotheosis" in ways
> you didn't expect, due to not having done it by a recognised, and
> hence more predictable, route.

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