> Sometimes the player as well as the character might no know what
> the ultimate fate of the character is, yet the inexorable hands
> of the norns (or their gloranthan analogue) inexorably gude the
> threads of their lives towards it.
>
> What I mean is, ability ratings are a very stiff and inflexible
> mechanism for this. Luck and fate are capricious and uncertain,
> not known, calculable quantities either to mere gloranthan
> mortals, or even to players and narrators. Hero Points spent on
> bumps can nudge events in certain directions, but the influence
> of the dice ensures plenty of unpredictability along the way.
I'm not sure I can see that; granted abilities have exact numeric ratings, but aside from that they can be as woolly as one likes. (And a sensible GM will let you "mutate" the exact tag in the light of developing understanding.)
The danger, it seems to me, with the implicit notion that HPs can have _any_ narrative meaning is that they end up having _no_ narrative meaning...
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