Re: Feats, What the?

From: t_m_ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:56:41 -0000

> > What has me confused is feats how the hell are we
> > suppossed to know the effects of the feats we use for our
> > characters.
> > Is there something ive missed or am i just missing the info (hope
> > not). could someone please help me out.
>
> In most games you are limited to what is described. i.e.
> bladesharp does exactly what it is described as doing, no more.
>
> In Hero Wars there is no such limitation. You get the name of the
> feat, and you figure out how to use it

There are some examples of how you might use some of the feats in the original HW rulebook in the files section of the HW-RULES list

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hw-rules/files/Feats/

that were compiled from discussion on that list shortly after the rules came out. Bear in mind these are examples of what you might do with the feat not "the only way to do it" and you should be OK

> I hope this helps. It does take a little getting used to using the
> rules as the starting point for what you can do, inestead of the
> ending point, but it is pretty exciting once you get used to the
> idea.
>

Indeed!