AW: [HOE] Killed My.. Entire... Party....

[MarcusDury@t-online.de (Marcus Dury)]

> In HoE,
> Fudging dice is needed because it is open ended.  In DnD, if a kobold
swings a sword at a fighter, he
> will do a maximum of 12 damage, but in HoE, since all dice rolls are open
ended, with the frequency of
> dice rolling, eventually a player will get kacked by a no-name mook and
considering the complexity of
> character gen in HoE, that really isn't warranted.  The fate chips
counterbalance this somewhat, but only
> if the marshall is reletively free with them.

Hey Damon,

I'm a HoE player and not a marshal but I would be really upset if I would
find out that a marshal cheated and lowered the damage so I could survive.
It just wouldn't be my very own thing anymore. I would feel as if I would
depend on the marshals good will and not pure coincidence.

What's so wrong about a savage killin' your long played character with one
stroke of a wooden club ? That's life. It could happen you and me on the
street. If this couldn't happen we all could start to play a SUPER HERO rpg.
It would be like in the old AD&D times when every 8'th level warrior just
walked through hordes of these little kobolds coz we (the players) new that
these little fellows can hit only with a 20. And even then they can only do
1D4 damage. So what! I got about 75 HP ?!?! Doesn't bother me. Hey you
little town guard with your pike ! Get out of my sight or I'll walk into
your dukes castle and cut his throat. What only twenty guards ? Pah ! I
suppose the GM didn't design them too long, so he'll sure cheat his rolls.

For the atmosphere in our posse and sessions it's essential that we fear to
die in every battle. Behind every corner can lurk your very own death.
That's fear and horror, dude. If we wanna survive we know that we've got to
work together.

We receive each 3 chips at the start of each session and about one red and a
white at the end. (That depends on what we achieved) We play about 5 hours
in one session and have always enough chips cause we save them and spend
them careful. If the svage with the wooden club comes on hits my noggin I
can count on my posse members who do spend their own chips for my good. OK,
I understand that you can count on your posse members the way I do if
they're loyal, but thats the game. And if you're all playin greedy loners
than you have to deal with it.

I can only speak for myself, but I call it cheatin' not fudgin'. (In the D20
system that's different, cause there are no chips and the whole game balance
is different.)

Do it as you like in your posse, but I wouldn't like to play in a posse
where all depends in the end on the arbitrariness of the marshal.

Tenning the Junker

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