Re: Bumps and shoves

From: reinierd <reinierd_at_...>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:34:52 -0000

> Reinerd:
> <<Also, what's wrong with letting PCs use HPs as get out of jail
cards?>>
>
> Nothing really, but my preference is for situations where, if the
player has > Hero Points, he cannot fail. It seems to me that high ability is what stops > you failing, Heroic-ness makes you fail in ways that might still achieve your > objective.

Oh; I see. That's cool.

> Saving someone else's skin is being Heroic. Saving your own is
being > cowardly/pragmatic/sensible. (IMO). I might be in this state of mind through > recently reading some of the Trojan War in which Heroes do spectacular heroic > fighting but still seem to end the day wailing and making funeral pyres and > being miserable.
>

I see now. It's not my cup of tea; there's plenty of misery in RL and I'd rather have happy endings in my Glorantha. But what you say makes perfect sense and of course YGMV.