Re: Digest Number 1536 from Paul May on 2004-05-24 (HeroQuest-Rules)

From: Paul May <kax_at_...>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:54:47 +1000

At 09:12 AM 25/05/04, flynnkd2 wrote:
< snip >
>My original question was sort of trying to come to grips with the process
>of getting to that sort of power. I was mainly concerned with items that
>had passive type powers, like Bladesharp, that are essentially augments
>only. They dont have a clearly defined, or easily used, 'active'
>magic. Now you can argue that this is the players problem (or the GM) for
>using such a poorly defined ability, but Bladesharp sits right there in
>everyones brain (if you played RQ like most of us did) and I hate to give
>up something that has been multi-layered into my neural pathways.
>
>So I come back to my query, if you had an item that was mostly passive
>magic like Bladesharp, the current rules penalise you by only giving you a
>1/10th reward for investment, via an augment.

You can use it actively by, for example, stroking your Bladesharp blade down a friend's blade and persuading your magic to share. Your active use allows him to get the augment on his blade, and it still works on yours. Of course, it may be more useful in an extended contest where you have some prep time to do it on your own followers. This allows you to get the, say, +3 from your Bladesharp 5W sword from each of your 6 fighting followers plus yourself to boost your AP by 18 more for the Extended Contest ambush you are about to spring. Of course, you have duration problems, but that comes into the increase in the 14 resistance to putting the effect on the blades in the first place for long enough to be useful.

It's also good when you are cooking, 'cos you can put in on your cleaver as well. And the axe for cutting down that elf and the adze for shaping that boat deck...

Paul May
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