Re: Re: Heroquest rules - Equipment

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 08:18:03 -0700

> This is the original Hero Wars method, where equipment generally
> provided an edge (increase or decrease to the AP bid in an extended
> contest). I always kind of liked this method better. But I think I'm
> being persuaded by the "new" idea of assigning equipment ability scores
> like everything else and then using them as augments (although with the
> new thinking on augments, I don't know how this would work - but I like
> anything that leads to the cessation of 'scouring the sheet for
> augments' on every roll).

The "use it as a mod" method is simpler than the "edge and handicap" method(don't have to compare offensive edges vrs defensive, or retroactively add AP to the bid, etc.), but the values of the edges were simply turned into mods to make backward-compatibility easier.

Note that HQ was not meant for simulationist play, though the equipment mods took is *somewhat* in that directrion.

RR
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