Re: Build Your Own Heroband

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:14:50 -0800


Trotsky

>The players in my group are starting to think about setting up a Hero
>Band .... They haven't met much in the way
>of good candidates for a guardian yet (this will only be our third
>adventure), so its a case of going out and finding one.

In general, I'd work from desired game mechanics first. If the players want a guardian with bird powers, that's what they should get.

In my game, one time the powers they wanted strongly suggested to me a myth I'd been working on, so I gave them that. And since there was a myth, they did a heroquest [*] (and ended up with a much more powerful -- and personalized -- guardian than otherwise). The next two hero bands, we just abstracted everything.

I don't think either approach is better, it depends on how much story time you want to devote.

David Dunham
Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

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