What? Explain yourself? of course not! Well, okay, just 'cause you're a moderator.
> Allowing Joe
> Humakti to send his modest Close Combat ability rating up into the
> superheroic stratosphere overnight -- not through heroquesting or
> ritual preparation, just careful groundwork, and *wholly* within the
> letter of the rules -- violates my narrating comfort zone.
The rules of thumb I suggested (Three augments for normal prep; Ritual for octuple augment prep) are things that Greg and I have discussed in the past, so they are not quite coming out of left field. I think that with the release of HQ your narrating comfort zone in this instance will be mollified.
I know that "It will be fixed in the next release" is one of the Great Lies of Publishing (software or game rules, it doesn't matter), and people don't like to hear that they'll have to purchase a whole new product just to play the game. But we all know the story of how HW came to be in the (*cough*wretched*cough*) state it was published. Greg *has* listened to the clamors and cries arising from the lists on the various rules questions, and he is working on addressing them. Now, whether his work will fix them to *your* satisfaction as opposed to *mine* is a different question. I *do* have problems with some of the things he has floated my way, but being a proper unpaid corporate stooge fanboy, I don't discuss them on the lists.
> Lest I be damned as an "armchair critic" in an ad-hominem sideswipe,
Okay, you're an armchair critic.... There, that's out the way.
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>Certainly, we have long
>experience of gaming out events that Issaries, Inc. *still* haven't
>demonstrated the will to present in published form.
I have nothing but admiration for the stuff you have contributed to. Some of it is not to my taste, but that's to be expected. But really, accusing Issaries of not "demonstrating will" when the basic ground work is still being laid (Lunar book? what Lunar book?) is slightly galling. The next book in the Sartar Rising series *will* have one of those great events that you appear to to wish for. But to get to that point we've had to lay groundwork in the form of TR, ST and BA. Without those books the events in OiD won't make sense. We can't Revolt in the Redlands in HQ until we have some idea of what the Lunars are in HQ terms.
RR
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