I have recently started running a MHR / CortexPlus game and I *love* it. It's just the right amount of math, and frankly I love rolling a bunch of polyhedrals, not just a d20.
I've been thinking a bit about how to adapt CortexPlus to play in Glorantha. One thing I'd like to put in is, well, more gradiation than the 5 step dice scale. I've been mulling over some kind of "Mastery" mechanic, which forces you to bump down a dice category in CortexPlus if you are unevenly matched.
Perhaps a playtest will be in order over the winter..
-Santo
aum shanti shanti shantih.
"The world is like the impression left by the telling of a story." - from
the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
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> > This sounds perfectly fine, and (I suspect) how HQ1 was intended to
> work. (In
> > HQ2, I think you would probably not even bother with the combat skill of
> 6,
> > probably leading with something like "stubborn" or "Proud" -
> > The reason she is putting herself between the Humakti and her husband
> being far
> > more important than the fact she barely knows which end of the sword to
> hold...)
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> If I'd been GMing, that's what I'd have done, yes. The question isn't
> whether the Humakti is physically capable of killing her, it's whether or
> not he decides to do so, and that's based on personality traits.
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> > Problems could potentially arise in a couple of situations
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> > 1) "All the augments, all the time" - In the Climactic scene, it might
> > make sense to pull in lots of augments, but if every dice roll is
> preceeded by
> > players scouring their character sheets and trying to justify every
> ability as
> > an augment the game will slow down and the "narrative flow" will be
> > disrupted
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> Well, don't do that, then. Have a social agreement about how many augments
> are reasonable when.
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> > 2) "Challenge Setting" It becomes harder to calculate what level a
> > Challenge should be set at if players can use unlimited augments - If
> you've
> > designed a challenge to be tough assuming players will be getting around
> +6 from
> > augments and they end up getting +6W, then the contests become a lot
> easier
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> Only relevant if you want to tie down every detail in advance.
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> What I do is tell my players that they're welcome to use as many augments
> as they like, but the opposition will use the same number. Stick to one or
> two, so will the opposition. Use 20+, so will the opposition. That removes
> the numeric advantage in being good at scouring the character sheet, and
> brings it back to what the players find to be fun at any given time.
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> > Of course neither of these are insurmountable, even if they do occur,
> but I
> > think part of the intention of HQ2 was to ensure they didn't.
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> Exactly - another case of it solving a problem I haven't got, so I don't
> bother using it.
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