Where you can really mess around with things is in the appropriateness of an ability to the use you are trying to make of it. Then you get to throw in all kinds of situational modifiers and the like.
You could ADD crunch to the HQ system. (After all, that's what magic does.) I doubt it would even be very hard to do. I would worry it would take away from the elgance of the system to much, though. LC
On March 30, 2007 10:01 pm, Gary Sturgess wrote:
> > When in doubt, remember: in Heroquest, every ability is mechanically
> > identical to every other ability.
>
> Yes, that is the overall impression I'm getting.
>
> I guess in the end my desire to play the supers genre includes an
> aspect of mechanically DIFFERENT abilities, so that is indicative that
> HQ perhaps doesn't work for me for this genre. I would certainly be
> very interested to hear from anyone who is using HQ for Supers; I am
> not by any means suggesting that it's "wrong" to do so, just that for
> me (and my players) it doesn't quite seem to do what I want it to do.
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