Woah, ease of the coffee, Rick! I believe the point Benedict was making isn't that HW/HQ is lower level than RQ, but that both games included scenarios for a range of character power. For RQ we had, not just the Cradle, but Snakepipe Hollow and Dorastor Land of Doom, neither of them particularly low level. For Hero Wars, we have - so far - only one truly epic scenario (Battle of Iceland). There being many more RQ scenarios to start with, the balance so far is, IMO, probably about the same. That may well change, especially when the next two episodes of Sartar Rising come out, but at the minute we have what we have. I haven't seen Sartar Rising 3: Gathering Thunder, so I can't say exactly what's in it, but I'm pretty sure its not all the epic Boat Planet scenario, there'll be four or five other scenarios too. How epic they are, I don't know, but I'm not going to judge until I see the book. Maybe it will all be hugely epic, but maybe it won't.
Greg likes to talk up the epic stuff at conventions - plugging the Pool, tearing down the Moon and so forth - because he thinks that's what will get most people excited. It doesn't mean that all the scenarios will be like that. It could be that most of them will be, but it might not, and I think its premature to get upset about that until we know for sure. Has Greg ever said there won't be low to mid level scenarios after Barbarian Adventures? (If he has, then fair enough, but I haven't heard him do so). I think its too early to judge, except on the basis of what we already have, and what we already have isn't dominated by super-high-level epic stuff IMO.
-- Trotsky Gamer and Skeptic ------------------------------------------------------ Trotsky's RPG website: http://www.ttrotsky.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Powered by hypermail