I'm so glad I came to *HQ2* from *FATE* but without encountering *Hero Wars*as just that transition has put my mind into pretzels several times.
I still struggle with ideas like "Exchanges are **not** attacks" or "Contests aren't Skill Rolls" and when/how are the best ways to interpret/apply Consequences.
(It still kinda bugs me that going by RAW pretty much *any* Contest can leave a character dying... I'm used to Knowledge Skill rolls and that just seemed sooo wrong!)
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bo <lorgryt_at_...> wrote:
> **
>
>
> On 11/23/2011 1:01 PM, Aaron Stockser wrote:
> > Basically...
> >
> > What Ash said ;D
> >
> >
> *****************************************************************************************************************
> >
> > The one thing I really want to add (as it was something I struggled with
> > till I "got it") is that, unlike pretty much every other RPG we've
> played,
> > in HeroQuest a *Star Destroyer has NO STATS*
> >
> > A Star Destroyer (or a freakin' *Fleet* of Star Destroyers) in HQ is
> pretty
> > much always going to fall into one of two categories - a *Resistance*
> > or a *Plot
> > Device*.
> >
> > Based on time spent on the scene, I'd argue that the *3* Star Destroyers
>
> > over Mos Eisley were either a Low Resistance or (for me) an Automatic
> > Success for the Falcon's "She may not look like much, but she's got it
> > where it counts" Ability.
> >
> > The Star Destroyer in the escape from Hoth was a much higher Resistance,
> > and the one that captured the Blockade Runner was a Plot Device.
> >
> > In HQ, there is no such thing as a "generic Star Destroyer" with Stats
> and
> > Abilities and Ratings and whatnot. *Every* Opponent/Encounter/Challenge
> the
>
> > PCs face in HQ must needs be defined situationally, in the context of the
> > story, scene, and setting, and even then the focus is on the appropriate
> > Resistance level, not what cool Abilities/Modifiers/Keywords you can come
> > up with to define it.
> >
> > It's incredibly liberating when you "get it" - but your head will asplode
> > if you keep falling back into a traditionalist/simulationist perspective.
> >
> >
>
> I kind of did "get it" but at the same time was thrown off by Hero Wars
> (which I have had for years) book "Anaxial's Roster" which gives
> "generic" stats. But, I also realize it is based on a version of the
> game in which "sword" is an item that aids ability, not an item that is
> assumed in ability and distracts FROM it if it is missing (perhaps to
> the point of making in unusable... hard to cut up a watermelon with a
> blade you ain't got).
>
> But, being a recovering simulations I am still getting little "where's
> the beef" thoughts. But I am getting well! LOL
>
> Thanks, also, because this puts into words what I have been half
> thinking for a few days. Helps me "get it". :)
>
> Bo
>
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