- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams"
<janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, David Dunham <david@a
>
> > (As a Narrator with far more HW experience than HQ, I'm still
> trying
> > to guage the size of a typical augment. Seems like the players
are
> > always ending up with more than the NPCs, which makes it harder
to
> > come up with challenging opponents.)
>
> Could be worth pre-calculating some situations, perhaps? PBeM is a
> bit different, of course, but what we're now doing for (to?) Guy is
> giving advance estimates of the augments and bonuses we'll be using
> for situations that are obviously going to arise pretty soon. It
> gives him time to rule out some of them, suggest others, tell us
what
> the modifiers are, and adjust the opposition a bit.
>
I tend to pre-calculate my auto-augments and write them down on the
NPC's sheet. This lets me use them quickly and keep the game moving.
They may not get to use all of them, of course, but its a great help
in reminding me of what sort of augments they have. I may even preroll
augments if it seems like its going to be a big, complex contest.
Jeff
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