Re: Conversion tables and scales (tricky situations)

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:24:51 -0000

>
> >I strongly disagree here. You wouldn't get that in a starting
> >Glorantha game, sure, but in a superhero game that is *exactly* what I
> >would expect. Granted, the guy with Superstrength 17 probably has
> >Superspeed 17W6, or whatever, but having characters with disparate
> >superabilities is the meat and veg of superhero roleplaying, I'd have
> >thought.
>
> You disagree because you are obsessed with a scale.
> You care more about a scale than the story,

At this point, I am to be honest, finding it really difficult to work out why you think this. Which kind of makes it difficult to reply :)

and IMO thats not what the HQ
> engine is all about.
>
> You think superstrength needs to be at least three masteries and
higher,
> which is just not true.

Not at all - my problem is the exact opposite of that. If it really were the case that superstrength were always at least three masteries, then it wouldn't matter. It's precisely because I *don't* think what you've stated above that the 'problem' exists at all. Which, actually, I don't think even is a problem, because HeroQuest seems ideally suited to solving it.

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Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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