Re: Epic NPCs and their stats

From: Rick Meints <rjmeints_at_yGc4m1nNZvyMvo-7yLpN3xAcZJ14YRH8a9YWLoBeXpXCC0cW5YEZExDdwrP8gyLgxta>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:05:00 -0000

I hanged the topic title because I would prefer to not have so many "printing updates". :-)

• "jongjom2003" wrote: >
  > Are they an important group in the oncoming Hero Wars? Will they be
  > significantly featured in future products?
  >
  > To me HQ should be all about the big picture: the Hero Wars.
  > Publications should provide chance to heroquest, mix it with
  > the big names, and make history. It still feels it's a
  > role-playing adventure game, lacking in confidence to take
  > on the big picture stuff. Roll on the Great Argrath Campaign.
  >
  It's all a matter of what people are willing to write and submit for publication. Moon Design doesn't have in-house writers that we can assign projects to. We work with freelancers who write what they want to write. Thus far, you can see what they have decided to write.

Writing up the stats and such for NPCs like Harrek, Jar Eel, Androgeus, Argrath, etc. is easily possible. If done well it would certainly get priority on the production schedule. Taking on that writing task is probably daunting to most writers. Getting it wrong would be an uncomfortable position to be in. There would probably be a "too high" vs. "too low" stat debate regardless. There's also the fact that most things lose their mystique and grandeur once they become a set of stats. I wouldn't want to see a "Deities & Demigods" effect, wherein people use it as a "if it has stats you can kill it" book.

Lastly, do people want to play in campaigns/senarios where they would interact (or be in conflict) with such powerful demi-god types?

Rick Meints
Moon Design Pubs