> OTOH, if Big and Small are a measure of how well the
> hero (or dog) can apply those properties (which seems
> more HW-like).
I would say "how much the hero's (or dog's) ability is a factor in the story", otherwise I very much agree. I prefer this interpretation to boosting all stats in, say, AR (I'm not against that book, really, I love it!) by a mastery to make them fit to a single scale (which has to be redefined every time a new creatures shows up -- it's hard to keep consistency over all the products coming from the most disparate people!).
I'm really afraid of the mastery runaway. :)
Btw, the way your worded the subject line gave me the following thought: in HW, there isn't an absolute zero, because I can take the contrary ability and increase it.
-- Regards, Alexandre. "Cinq Milliards de races d'hommes sur Terre Est-ce assez pour croiser le fer...?"
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