Re: Flat Conflicts - Do They Exist?

From: Nick Eden <nick_at_...>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:59:30 +0100

Perhaps. I think there's a degree of flatness engineered into the system because all contests are the same. In a more traditional system one would have a different approach/mechanism to trying to open the safe before the security guard returns, getting away from the agents of Fu Manchu in a stolen airship or defeating the pirate king and so rescuing the infanta of Castile.
Since all of those involve the same resolution mechanism, and likely all have the same difficulty of 14+int(numberof sessions/2), they can all somewhat similar. It pushes a lot of responsibility onto the GM, which not everyone's going to get at first. People are used to crunchy bits of system giving their games flavour, and with HQ2 especially, that's not there.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline_at_...> wrote:
> Hi,
> From what you're saying, I think people are expecting the system to simulate things for them, and provide them answers to what happens mechanically. Other systems tend to do this, because they're less abstract in their approach and genre specific. Interpretation of the rules here on the other hand suggests that it is the players responsibility to elaborate on specifics, and to make things interesting. I don't claim to be particularly experienced at running the system though, so could be quite wrong.
> Thoughts?
> Yours,
> Zack.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, "GARY" <furashgary_at_...> wrote:
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>> A number of posters on RPGNET and others have said while they don't have any issue with the HeroQuest II rules, in play conflicts are very bland and unexicting (combat, chases, etc.).
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>> Is this the case, are their solutions w/in HeroQuest II for resolving it (e.g., changing the type of contest or stakes or something) so that conflicts aren't just one roll but are as exciting as those in any other RPG (not the same, just interesting).
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