>
> >Yeah, but what happens when your rival (Hates
> Darianus
> >17) is dueling you to impress the parents of your
> true
> >love (In Love With Anatara 5w) so that he can marry
> >her, and not only your love but your honor
> (Honorable
> >19) and your place in the community (Member of
> Three
> >Feathered Crowns League 17) is on the line? As a
> >player, I'd be extremely frustrated if I could only
> >pick one of those abilities to use as an augment
> when
> >they are all in play. That takes a huge amount of
> >HeroQuest's oomph away, and makes any number of
> >abilities that usually only come into play as
> augments
> >pretty useless.
>
> Under my rules you get a +5, under the official
> rules (I think!) a +9 from
> 4 augments. Mine's quicker, and less prone to
> getting ridiculous.
I guess I'm not sure what's "ridiculous" in this situation. Personally, part of the fun of playing HeroQuest is looking over my character sheet and finding every ability that's relevant to a particular conflict. It provides a build-up to rolling the dice and it gives a more visual aspect to the conflict ("Okay, so my Pride is going to come into play here, so I look stone-faced and serious"). One augment may be quicker, but quicker is not always more fun.
>
> Doubt any real player would care - HQ is the only
> system that allows
> augmenting at all, so they're pretty used to "pick
> the best".
Right, but then it seems that what your saying is "HeroQuest is unique, so let's take some of that uniqueness and scale it down." If you were playing D&D, would you only allow a PC to use one magic item at a time because "even though you have 3 magic items that are all cool and could work in this situation, it's faster to just factor in one, and it's ridiculous to have a PC using 3 at a time"?
Hey, play the game how you want, but personally, I'd be really frustrated by that kind of "timesaving," since one of HQ's best features (for me) is augmenting. It adds a level of drama and fun that few other RPGs have.
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