Re: What Does a Rune-Magic Rating Represent?

From: Ian Cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:11:52 -0000

> The two need not correspond. A barely qualified Space Cadet would have
> little ability to captain a starship. In a simulation game, their
> Command Starship skill would be low. But in a narrative game that
> focused on our Cadet taking emergency control of a starship and thereby
> defeating the Bad Guy, the Cadet would have a high rating in Command
> Starship.

As in the recent Star Trek movie (I'm guessing that might be what Ben is referring to). In a sim game the universe would have been doomed because the Romulans, who have previously defeated experienced Starfleet personnel shoud have no trouble with cadets fresh out of the academy. In a narrative game, our heroes succeed precisely because that is what they are.

However we can drop the sim vs. narrative debate and simply state, as Robin does, that HeroQuest follows movie-logic not real world logic. It is a cinematic game system. Indeed I came out thinking how well HQ2 would have handled Star Trek.