What is "little" math to some is "too much" to others. I'm fine with being a PC in a game with a ton of numbers, but I find that personally the fewer I have to deal with, the better of a story I can tell.
Also, there is a huge difference in feel and gameplay from an Augment being a "+2" or "+5" to a roll in HQ, than the equivalent in CortexPlus of having an extra physical die in your pool. There is a certain joy in rolling a bunch of polyhedrals.that's kind of hard-wired into many of us from childhood.
Additionally, CortexPlus' Plot Point / Doom Pool mechanic is simply *brilliant*. Hero Points in HQ are sort of the same, but having them *also* be tied to character advancement makes it tough for PCs to spend them.
There are some issues with CortexPlus - namely it's a finite scale (d4/d6/d8/d10/d12) - but I think that might be fixed by borrowing the Mastery mechanic from HQ in some capacity.
-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 2:09 PM, Jeff <richaje_at_...> wrote:
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> > I'm in a similar boat - it's been years since I've run HQ1/2, but I
> enjoyed
> > it alot. Eventually though it became rather math heavy.
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> How on earth has HQ2 become math-heavy? I mean seriously? I've GMs as
> varied in style as Ian Cooper, Herve Carteau, and Mikko Tormala run HQ2
> games, and never was "math heavy" a term I'd use to describe any of them.
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> HQ1 was potentially very math heavy, with augment rules that easy could
> degenerate into half hour long "can't we get another mastery worth of
> augments here?" quests that broke up pacing as badly as RQ3's combat rules
> (not to mention lots of other problems Robin, David, and I could go into in
> great detail). The only thing I can imagine is a GM going nuts on lingering
> benefits and penalties (in which the GM really ought to pull back on them
> or decide from time to time that they expire as per the rules options).
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> Jeff
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