>For those who have run/played in longer campaigns with Heroquest 2,
>how have characters developed ability wise? I can very much see
>players raising only few abilities. I know there is the catch up
>rule you can implement every time you gain a mastery to help with
>this, but this seems like it would only encourage sticking within
>your best abilities. So if you are a combat monster you would stick
>with your butt kicking abilities, and if you're a techie you'd stick
>with your fixing/inventing/modifying abilities. Is this what you
>have experienced through play?
I think it's inevitable that most of your improvement ends up directly related to your character concept. The catch up is a nice way to allow players to broaden themselves a bit.
I don't remember the specifics from our long-running HQ2 game, but there definitely were improvements outside the top abilities. In particular, characters tend to add new Relationship abilities. Or cement items they acquire.
And in a Glorantha game, religious status can be a parallel goal. (One character even gave up a number of abilities as part of becoming a devotee!)
As Narrator I like to assign directed improvements to things that aren't the character's best (on the assumption that they'll be going up anyway).
Finally, I just want to point out that not all games are about character improvement. We've had a number of shorter games where it isn't at all relevant.
-- David Dunham Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
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