|From: Mikael Hansson [mailto:mikael.hansson_at_...]
|
|At 12:13 2000-08-01 -0500, you wrote:
|>|What I mean is that I think Xena is a real put of ... its not HW as I
|>|vision it.... but then I prettty disaponited by the whole
|>|system soo far...
|>
|>The problem for me was (and to some degree, still is)
|accepting the big
|>change in the portrayals of Glorantha between RQ and HW.
|They seem, in many
|>ways, to be completely different worlds. However, it does
|seem to me that
|>Xena is a fine example of HW's style. I wonder how she'd fare against
|
|I agree .... I is a bit annoyed at the fact that HW is so
|concentrated on
|HeroQesting ... Glorantha has so much to offer before that...
|as it is now
|I do not feel a need for HW, I liked the visions of glorantha
|as it was
|presented in RQ.... more down to earth ... so to say.
I'm not annoyed, myself; I just had to make the mental shift. Although I don't like Xena as much as I did a year or two ago, I can still apply it to Glorantha. YMMV, and apparently does. Perhaps the lower level of HW is more to your liking? You don't have to start out at the recommended level of power.
|And RQ had some problems as a system, but I can hardly see
|that HW will
|ever be as easy to learn for my players. Its way to vauge and abstract.
It is very vague and abstract if what you're expecting is a traditional, simulationistic RPG, but that's not what HW is supposed to be. I'm actually looking forward to trying it out, since it addresses some of the problems I have with other RPGs.
|
|True combats could last for ever in RQ, but that could be
|winged if need was.
|
|Here in HW you has to wing everything, all the time, and it is
|all epic and
|god's and quests and whatever...
Not all of it; depends upon the type of campaign you choiose to run. But it IS suited for a more over-the-top style of game than most RQ campaigns ever were. Maybe you could just take what you want from HW, translate it over to RQ, and be happier with it, instead of trying to force HW to be something that it isn't.
Guy Hoyle
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