Re: Ash's Guide To How To Live With Ability Monsters

From: Rob <robert_m_davis_at_...>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:06:43 -0000

• In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_s...> wrote: >> The only problem (and it's a "social contract" one, true in every game
  > system, not really solvable with rules) is the combat monster
  casually
  > picking off the "easy target" on his way to the Big Baddie,
  leaving the poor
  > lower-ability guy with either: nothing to do again, or suicidally
  taking on
  > Big Bad.
  >
  > I suggest smacking the Combat Monster *player* upside the head
  when he does
  > that. Only way he'll learn. :-).
  >
  > RR
  

I think that as a narrator you can structure things so everyone gets a crack.Its worse when everyone can fight but one is WAY better than everyone else.

I had a girl player in my game who got a bit complacent about being super tough. I had a guy wearing a red silk type fancy pants ninja outfit and no weapon appear out of a solid stone floor. She moves in and gets absolutely marmalised and is left in a bloody pulp!!! hehehe - Tothus Seven-Seventh strikes again!

Regards
Rob

'There's always a bigger fish' Qui Con Gin, Jedi Knight