On the other hand, for running a longer term battle between an hero and poison or disease, I would try a extended contest. I would have the poison changing all it's ap bids into hurts via the 7 ap to 1 hurt ratio. (Can't find the page reference. If anyone knows it, that would be great.) This would make it a slow descend into sickness and death, which would work for some kinds of poison.
--Victor
Ian Cooper wrote:
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>The poison is trickier, because an extended contest
>does not deal with whether you received actual damage
>until it ends, but focuses on advantage in a situation
>(note HQ is not unique here Blue Rose and M&M
>similarly drop traditional hit points in favour of a
>'how disadvantaged are you' approach). So whether or
>not you have been poisoned seems to me to be a
>function of the level of defeat, not an extra attack
>(I think AR still held a RQ viewpoint on how to handle
>some situations). I would just count poison as another
>equipment bonus (or auto augment ultimately the two
>are the same thing, one is just a fixed level) say +4.
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>Certainly thnking of the 'cinematic' feel that HQ aims
>for in a movie anyone struck by the poison would be
>dead, the hero escapes by the sting never pumping its
>deadly ichor into his veins.
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>Ian Cooper
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