Re: Epic NPCs and their stats

From: jongjom2003 <JonGJoM_at_dZaCaDBZTlLU20ojeEnNLFwfgCOB4zI3APb7IUD7tORTE9rTXN4y87aDvi-UDodn3TqN>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:39:59 -0000

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.

Very true. And thanks for sitting in the hot seat and the latest WiP.

> 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.

Well yes to a point. I guess writers would be happy to give it a go if supported by Greg and the tribe. And yes we could try and kill it, but expect a high mortality rate. But without stats there is no game, no scale. Or is there a cohort of 'untouchables', just there to railroad the storyline?

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

For me: very much so! If not that then what's the point of the scale? It's HeroQuest after all!

Jon