Re: Secondary keywords

From: Madeleine Eid <eid_at_...>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:35:34 +0000

Sounds a bit like the military character I'm playing in a PbP campaign - I took Third-Hitch Veteran as a secondary keyword at 13, bought it up to 15 at chargen, and now use it as a +2 augment on any roll that the narrator allows me to add it to. Which effectively is all my military keywords and skills.

To me, that's as the keyword should be used - as an augment, not as an active keyword with a subset of skills contained within it.

TTFN Maddy E

> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:43:30 -0000
> From: "Darren Hill" <rpglists_at_...>
>Subject: Re: Secondary keywords
>
>On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:35:54 -0700, Doyce Testerman
><doyce.testerman_at_...> wrote:
>> Then, as we went through his ten 'gimme' skills, he chose:
>> * Ambush
>> * Know Brigand Tactics
>> * Tracking
>>
>> And then he said, "And I want something sort of general to denote my
>> experience with the Brigands who've been troubling the Prefecture for
>> the last couple seasons, so how about some kind of attribute like
>> 'Veteran of the Brigand Invasions'?"
>>
>> At which point I stopped him and said that "Veteran of the Brigand
>> Invasions" should really be a new Keyword at 13, with Ambush and
>> Tracking and these other related things under it.
>
>Wouldn't it depend what he wanted to use that Veteran rating for? If it
>was just familiarity with brigand tactics, knowing how to deal with them,
>and having some general knowledge relating to these brigand invasions,
>sounds like a normal trait would suit it fine. It's definitely the sort of
>thing that could come up in a warrior's life.
>Or... I'm throwing this option out to the group to see if this nsort of
>thing is kosher for HeroQuest. You could change the name of his base
>Cavalry Warrior Keyword to Veteran Cavalry Warrior of the Brigand
>Invasions - the brigand invasions where a defining feature of his
>experience and training, and play a part in shaping his later experiences.
>It still allows the normal cavalry warrior stuff, but roots it more in
>your game world.
>
>Darren