Then when people feel the need for someone else to get involved in setting target numbers for their game they can go there and get a concensus.
What I would think would work would be a wiki with attached discussion forum. The wiki could hold the agreed-upon data and the forum could produce it. Eventually we would end up with a database of consistent stats for Gloranthan characters that would allow you to prepare your games. I wouldn't expect any of the game's creators to get involved - who could blame them for that?
In response to your two needs as quoted. These are not covered by HeroQuest and will not be in any HQ2 supplements, so we are left with taking our own steps. HQ has already chosen it's method for arriving at resistances, if we want to use another method then we need to look elsewhere. If the effort of retrieving target numbers seems more effort than it's worth - maybe that's because it is.
Very seriously though, I recommend trying the relative resistances, pass/fail cycle from HQ2 and adherance to a narrativistic agenda. Not only can you finally create the kind of stories that Greg has been reading all these years but you can be free of all that extra work in preparation. Even though the HQ2 book does say that the pass/fail method is optional it is the only method detailed in the book - so it's The HQ2 Method. Relative resistances are fully engrained in the work too.
How do you compare published abilities without numbers? By reading the published text and using language comprehension.
Great thing about this method is: you can use it with any printed materials: RPG or otherwise. HQ2 can be used for any setting including Glorantha because it tells you to work with words and not with numbers.
From: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Ellis
Sent: 25 February 2009 09:15
To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: How do you compare published abilities
without numbers?
<matthew.cole_at_...> wrote:
>
> Did nobody think my idea about starting a forum about the kind of
ability
> numbers desired was good then?
To be honest, No
>To me it seems that's just what you want.
Having to have on-line access and the time to search through a set of forum postings every time I'm reading or trying to use a HQ book?
Providing Numerical stats appears to fulfil two needs 1) Provides a simple shorthand to understanding the character, sometimes revealing or expanding on information in the written text (eg Stu's "Musical Spoons 80%). This greatly looses it's usefulness if you have to go elsewhere to find it
2) Providing baseline resistances for use in actual play (which can be modified by circumstance and/or pc ratings vs the "benchmark"). If these numbers aren't actually provided in the scenario, then the effort in tracking them down before play starts and writing them all in, or the interruption to play while one retrieves them (assuming that you can access the internet from where you play) would seem to be more effort than it is worth
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