Re: Character Generation - Why bother with Guidelines?

From: L.Castellucci <lightcastle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:34:12 -0500

I don't think it is a question so much of guilt as "there's a reason they are there, no?" I think lots of people assume that chargen was created the way it was *for a reason*. That the rules are structured as they are *for a reason* and so arbitrarily hacking away at something might have all kind of unforeseen consequences in play.

For instance, the concentration rules never sat well with me, but I was loathe to dump them or just remake them since presumably they served some purpose in modeling the Gloranthan Universe or in game play.

I think it is that, far more than guilt, that drives the situation.

JMHO LC

On December 22, 2006 02:40 pm, Roderick Robertson wrote:

> As about the only vocal writer of these rules, I say "If you don't like the
> Chargen guidelines, change them." I hearby absolve any player or narrator
> from any guilt or shame felt about changing any rule in HeroQuest or Hero
> Wars (or anything else *I*'ve written).
>
> You don't need to justify those changes, or talk anyone into them, just go
> ahead and *do* it. You don't need to complain about the written rules and
> how they constrain you, just go ahead and play them the way you want to.
>
> One the other hand, if you *don't* want to change them, then don't. You
> don't have to defend your decision, just do what you feel is best.
>
> RR
> He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
> R. Sabatini, Scaramouche