Re: Costly victories

• In hw-rules_at_y..., Neil Smith <neil_at_w...> wrote:
  > One quibble I have with the HW rules is that there is never any
  cost or
  > penalty applied to the victor of a contest. Most of the time, this
  is
  > great and exactly what I want from the rules. However, this can
  make
  > some tactics ineffective, particularly when one party wants to to
  engage
  > in hit and run tactics.
  (snip)
  > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle this?
  >
  > Neil.
  

In your example, Trolls are not trying to win but are trying to exhauste humans. So they are _not defeated_, probably, in their hitand  run tactics. Maybe the humans think to defeat them because they go, but given their real purpose they should not, frex, be opposed by ranged-combat but by endurance-though-stamina or similar abilities.

Of course, if you let humans fight against the trollkin using CC or RC ability, the trollkin lose (in HW as in RQ), but in HW the purpose is more important than the actual facts: facts are trollkin retreats, but they win, maybe, because they reach their purpose of tiring off the defenders, so the confrontation should not be between RC and RC but between trollkin's "tactics" and human's "endurance" (with humans penalized by lack of sleep, darkness, confusion and the like).

Ciao,
Gian             Received on Mon 09 Jul 2001 - 02:05:44 EEST