David Cake:
> Seconded. Augments are both an extremely poor return on
> investment, and a cumbersome rules mechanic. If you are going to fix
> something on a HW second edition, fix augments.
Pray God, or other applicable entity, that HW2 will fix more than one thing... ;-)
> My suggested fix is (largely based on one suggested by some
> clever chap suggested many moons ago) subtract the Augment resistance
> from the ability, then roll a simple test. Personally, I would make
> the consequences of failure merely failure rather than a minus - but
> if you leave the consequences of failure as an equivalent penalty,
> you have kept the game balance much the same, and just sped up play a
> lot. I think augments could stand to be made more useful as well as
> quicker.
I've been rereading some of these suggestions those recently, as it happens. Before I decided to give up on everything pre-01.01.01, I read everything with "augment" in the subject line -- owww. There were some intruiging suggestions, and Dave refers to two that particularly caught my eye. But regardless of what HW2 does, this has got to be "FAQ-fodder", or something of that ilk by now -- has anyone made a potted summary or compilation of any sort of the various augmentation variants? I might undertake such an enterprise myself, if not -- but I'm more than willing to let someone take a step forward faster, if there's an eagerer beaver out there...
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