>Obviously narrators can read material and decide if it would suit
their group. But without numbers, is it all up to the narrator's taste?
Yes.
This has been another installment of "simple answers to simple questions".
>(If it is, I'm not saying that it is bad. I'm just trying to wrap my
head around how this works--both so that I know what to expect, and so
that if I try to write or collaborate on anything, I have a clue of how
it >should be done).
I do need to see the actual system before I could write a scenario.
Take, for example, the idea mentioned by myself and others of using basic character creation but pointing out "you are among the most powerful people in the land".
Oh! Exalted. Isn't that part of the idea in Exalted? The players are orders of magnitude more powerful than anybody other than another Exalted. Cool. So you do basic character creation in HQ2 for your Exalted person.
Mere humans have a squad of troops guarding a bridge. Slaughtering them probably doesn't require a roll. Slaughtering them to accomplish some interesting goal, maybe it does. How hard is it? Depends on the goal, I suspect.
Should Spidey ever really have to roll to catch a petty crook? No. But there is interesting conflict if he has to engage with another superhero. Galactus shows up, and he and Daredevil sit on a building and eat popcorn. ("If it gets to the point where we can help, we've already lost.")
Unless some kind of story where Spidey beats Galactus through luck, or some new weakness, or talking to him, is interesting.
Just my 2 cents.
LC
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