Re: My Worldscale conclusion so far

From: simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_...>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:56:22 -0000

>
> >I started this thread and i found Ian Hammonds Coopers reply"Don´t
be this
> >guy"the best answer/solution to most of my questions/problems:
> >-An ability stands for itself(in a human scale).
> >-If you want to compare it with another race, you will have to
adjust.
>
> But the *rules* don't say any such thing! Note also that *only* Ian
and
> Greg believe this. Other long running HW GMs, including myself,
don't run
> games like this. According to Ian's players *he* doesn't run games
like this.

I'm with Graham and Nick Brooke on this. Providing usable examples of resistances and opponent that HW Narators can actualy use in their games is _not_ simulationism, it's plain common sense.

As for the argument that opposition should be appropriate to the needs of the story, I agree absolutely. That doesn't mean that examples or default values are useless, it just means they are guidelines. To my mind, the correct scale against which example resistances and opponents should be gagued is starting characters.

Is anybody realy going to argue that example resistances and opponents that beginning Narrators can use to pit against their player's newly generated characters are not usefull?

Simon Hibbs