I've offered them to my players, but mostly the players didn't take them. They certainly seem to give some flexibility back.
If I recall, the bonuses were just a +1 or -1 to the result there?
We no longer have the back and forth of transfers, nor the back and
forth of picking different abilities to force conflicts on preferable
footing.
(That's part of the "power to the player" mindset of HQ2 and I'm not
sure how much I miss it.)
I do think that my issue with Extended contests is that while the results are clearer, the process seems to have become duller.
I can't see something like Mike Holmes' dungeon crawl being done well by the new extended contests. (IT was replicated in that HQ2 dungeon crawl thread on RPG net mentioned recently.)
I still don't like the feeling that players have little ability to escalate. (A simple contest to an extended, an extended to a climactic action, etc.) Something about that feels wrong, although I'm not sure how to fix it.
I've toyed with the idea that the next time I play I will allow lingering benefits and penalties to operate within an Extended contest, to simulate the feel of the player's decisions and rolls actually having some kind of effect.
LC
Ashley Munday wrote:
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> How much have you used the rules on page 49? I've not really needed
> any more than that to do most of the things I used to do with HW/HQ1.
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> Cheers,
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> Ash
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