Re: Can HQII do relationship conflicts?

From: Joel A <joelarellano714_at_...>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:07:43 -0700 (PDT)


Thanks for the reply, trotsky. I'm lookin' to convert several of the more socially-oriented Paizo Adventure Paths (e.g., Curse of the Crimson Throne, etc.) to HQ but focus on the social side instead of combat. The PCs would be linked to each other (i.e., siblings, relatives, friends, etc.) and to a select number of the more important NPCs found throughout the AP.

"Carpe Diem"

(Seize the Day),

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_...>
Subject: Re: [HeroQuest-RPG] Can HQII do relationship conflicts? To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 5:10 AM

joelarellano714 wrote:
>
> Currently scouring Smallville Roleplaying Game. Can HQ be adapted to
> handled primarily interpersonal conflicts?
>

I haven't read the Smallville RPG (although it is one I'd like to check out at some point, if only to pinch some of its ideas), but it seems to me that HQ is ideally suited to interpersonal conflicts. In fact, it would hardly need adaptation, so long as you frame the contests properly. From what I gather of SV-RPG, a large part of it focuses on conflicts between ideals and so forth, all of which can easily be represented as abilities in HQ. Similarly for personality traits, and even goals (and that's assuming the goals can't be easily represented by whatever you ideals happen to be). You'd need to emphasise the relevant abilities during character creation, and to establish the potential outcomes of challenges against such abilities as they arise, but none of that seems to be outside the bounds of HQ-as-she-is-writ.

Is there anything in particular you were wondering about how to handle?
> 

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Trotsky
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