Oh, and make it very difficult whatever the pass/fail cycle says. Unless the player characters are a bunch of smoking boots screaming "Medic!"
Cheers,
Ash
> From: SARAH <sarah.newton5_at_...>
> Subject: Ganging up on opponents
> To: HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 11 December, 2011, 14:39
> Hi everyone,
>
> We've just played our fourth session of HQ2 today, still
> having a great time :-). However, I think I've been doing
> something wrong, and wanted to see what you guys thought.
>
> Basically, reading the RAW (p43), it looks like the
> Multiple Opponent Penalty applies only to PCs facing
> multiple opponents, and not to opponents facing multiple
> PCs. Would that be right?
>
> So far I've been using the Multiple Opponent Penalty rules
> for PCs ganging up on opponents - it's felt like a good way
> to give the feel of overwhelming numbers in mechanical
> terms.
>
> However, it plays havoc with resistances set by the pass /
> fail cycle, and makes opponents very easy. In today's
> session, 6 PCs were facing off against a powerful Lune.
> Using the pass / fail cycle, the base difficulty was 15.
> Even with a Very High resistance on the pass / fail table,
> that's only 4W for the Lune; using the Multiple Opponent
> Penalty rules, PC #6 is going to be facing a resistance of 6
> against an allegedly formidable foe. So, I'm concluding the
> Multiple Opponent Penalties are for PCs facing multiple
> opponents only.
>
> If that's the case, does anyone have any advice for
> figuring the effect of multiple PCs acting against a single
> opponent, for those contests where 'ganging up' is a
> plausible tactic?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sarah
>
>
>
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