I donīt know if anybody knows the manga-comic book"Eden"by Hiroki Endo.
Its a cyberpunk setting with lots of action but actually very brutal for western taste.
Often,i think about,how to resolve the scenes with HeroWars and everytime its possible,without any special rules,thats really so great about these rules!
There is one scene where a character called Kenji,a one man slaughterhouse(he surely has a W3 fighting ability,or higher),fights against three heavy armoured troopers with guns.He has only two,very big,military knives and some really advanced acrobatic skills.
The troopers are distracted and Kenji jumps of a rooftop(maybe 2,5 m high)on the first trooper,slamming the knife right through the helmet into his head.Then sommersaulting off his shoulders to the next trooper and cutting his throat[thats kind of super ninja-i admit :-)]
How would you resolve that?this is an extended contest.The attack is surely augmented by the extra force that comes from the "falling off" the rooftop and the Ap bid should be very high,because of the risky nature of the maneuvre.But as i see it,this is an augment the narrator decides-you dont really roll for this,do you?So how much edge would you give for that attack?
>From there i come to another question.In HW Apīs are not hitpoints but,how well you are doin in a contest.Edges or weaponranks give you advantages,still there are some times,where there should be something impossible.Judging from ranks there is no impossible.Even if ranks cancel each other out,you can still attack and be successful.I would actually say,its not very probable to be able to slam a knife through a military helmet into someones head and kill him.I mean a helmet is designed to stop bullets and thus knifes as well.In RQ you had definite armourpoints against definite damage points,so with the exception of criticals you could say,you can penetrate or you cant.This is not the case in HW.So has the narrator the last word,when it comes to possibilities?Are there cases where there is a simple no-go.Like you canīt penetrate the wall with your arrow and kill the one whoīs standing behind it ?Or is it all a matter of what you like and whats dramatic and nice for the flow of the story?
Christian
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