From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.oz.au)
Date: Wed 02 Feb 1994 - 04:42:34 EET
Can I just say that I like the proposed new mechanic, and I think that
it is very clever, and PLEASE DO NOT USE IT.
RQ needs some consistency. Please, just lets stick with
' lower is better' , which we all know and understand, and which,
more importantly, is already the way RQ (and published stuff which we need to
maintain compatibilty with) does it.
Actually I prefer, as a slightly more complex rules (but one which
Pendragon finds the need for as well) the rule 'best level of sucess wins,
other wise lowest roll' ie 03 beats 05 - unless 05 is a critical and 03 is only
a special. Or 40 beats 70 - unless 40 is a failure and 70 is a sucess.
I like this more than the RQ4 maneouver style contest of sucess level,
which results in stalemate more than half the time.
It also works the way RQ has always worked.
I don't wish to appear a whining conservative (well, those of you who
followed my input know that I am not at all), but on this particular issue I
feel that it very definately should come down to conservatism - the marginal
gain is very small, and it is a very big change to the game system (even if
it looks similar probability wise, it will not go down well with a largely
conservative RQ2 audience that we are trying hard to win back). RQ4 should
appear to be a simple and natural transition.
Cheers
Dave
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