Love & Hate

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After reading some selected parts of Hero 6 i come to some general conclusions about this game.

 

It's still the best construction toolkit ever. The power construction details are probably better than in the previous edition.

But it will never be the Grail game i'd like to see...That's dramatic

 

There are two reasons:

 

- Resolutions methods, mainly the 3D6 roll low one. When i compare them to an extremely homogeneic game like Earthdawn where fumbles, open-ended, results levels, the step=average logic and the fact that actions and effects are on the same scale.... the ones from Hero look so old.

 

- Scales and complexity. This is the deepest problem, the one i really really hate. I have no fun with divisions. When i think about logarithmic games like EABA or MEGS, Hero looks awfully old and unnecessarily complex. I hoped the 6th ed. would be a bit more logarithmic so we no longer need to divide movement, CVs or the like. But actually it seems to fall a bit more on the linear ugly side. In the name of simplicity negative CHARS have been removed. STR from 0 to 4 no longer follow the +5=*2 scale and one of the consequence is an exception in the note about lightweight objects (book 2 page 81.) Honestly, i firmly believe that exceptions only bring complexity.

I hoped the 6th would use the exponential VF as a core mechanism instead of an option.....but actually it was removed and we have to divide meters by 6 when moving through.

Divide by 6....that's so sexy....

 

This game is so old....there are too many fans....i'm afraid it will never change.

It could be so great if it had learned some lessons from other games...

 

 

But i don't want to leave it because no other game has such a powerfull set of building rules, no other game elevates the reasoning from effect philosophy as high as Hero.

 

So i have two optimistic questions =

 

- The easier one = i already use a roll high resolution method (2d6-2d6 with open-ended) but i still think there is more fun with Successes count (like in Burning Wheel or Shadowrun) or exotic ones like in Earthdawn.

So my question is = did someone made something like that ? Do you have an url ?

 

- Now the hard and very important question = i remember that someone, months ago, gave an url to a logarithmic modification of Hero. Does someone remember what this url was ?

 

I don't want to argue about the Hero philosophy. I'd just liked to save it, for me.