Jane
You are correct here. Heroquesting is a risk/reward endeavour. Low risk HQ=learning a feat from your deity, Highest Risk+Highest reward, ie the full LBQ.
This should be reflected in the relative difficulties selected depending on the dramatic requirements of the story.
Regards, Rob
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> > Joerg:
> >> "It's what Heort does." Simple success, ...
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> > The idea behind this: as you identify with your role model on a heroquest,
> > what would be the ordinary task of your role model becomes something you
> > would not normally fail at. A similar logic is behind e.g. the Storm Bull
> > part in the Issaries/Lkankor Mhy quest in the KodP game.
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> Well, maybe... but that makes it impossible to ever fail at any heroquest. I'd give a bonus for following the footsteps correctly, but not an automatic success.
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> It still leaves the question of how Heort does it. Whatever he did, you do that, sure: but what?
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> > Sorry that I was short and snide, that's what less than 2 hours sleep do
> > to your writing.
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> Sounds more like it was Greg being short to the point of uselessness, but go and get some sleep!
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