On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 08:45 AM, Jane Williams wrote:
> I have this Humakti PC with a magical sword (Lottery
> sword, four gifts on it.) It's mainly edges. And our
> game uses mainly simple contests, so the edges don't
> come out to play very often, just the +5 bonus.
>
> So under HW rules, she's her basic 11W CC, plus 5 to
> 16W. Which is quite enough to be going on with.
>
> Even in extended, we've always ignored the ^3
> "standard", since it cancels out.
>
> But after HQ conversion, if I add her basic ^3
> ordinary sword, her ^3 armour, and all the edges
> (let's say she's facing a troll, so they all kick in),
> all as bonuses, her effective Sword Combat rating is
> now 17W2. She's gained a full mastery. OK, so this is
> an extreme case because of that sword, but it made me
> wonder if I was misunderstanding something.
It doesn't sound like it. Based on what you're saying here, I'm guessing 3 of the gifts added +^5 (with at least one of them being specifically when fighting trolls). Yep, they'd all convert to bonuses. Yes, it makes it a very powerful sword but hey, it has 4 gifts on it!!
Camo
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