Re: Battle Magic Gone Bad

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:41:09 -0000

> > The simple fact is that the Hero Wars rules clearly make it
possible for
> > someone with this level of skill to defeat any number of bog-standard
> > warriors (as Roderick made plain in his post) and I can't help but
think
> > that this is intentional. If you don't want characters to be that
> > powerful in your game, you'll just have to stop them getting that
good.
> > That's exactly what I intend to do in mine!
>
> Rather than limit the ability ratings of your heroes, just make the
> opposition more powerful. Sure, you can take on the entire Black Oak
fyrd
> and not break a sweat, but how are you against the elite Sisters
regiment?
> They ain't 5w, they're more like 15w2 or better.

I think you're misunderstanding my 'problem' (if you can call it a problem). I don't *want* my heroes to be able to take on the entire Black Oak fyrd without breaking a sweat. How good they are against the elite Sisters regiment is entirely another matter :-)

> The problems of super-heroic chararacters aren't bog-standard
troops, it's
> other super-heroic characters, or acts of nature.

To be sure; and if you don't want to be in this situation, ensuring that you don't have super-heroic characters would be the easiest way of doing so, no?

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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