Hunter: The Utter Waste of Space
Jun. 12th, 2005 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianHunter: The Reckoning -- the movie.
Oh, there's going to be a reckoning, all right. Given the tendency to make movie characters uber, by the time the film starts, they're not going to be so much hunters as hunted.
And yes, I've heard of tabletop Hunter games where everyone ends up uber; they wind up as half-angels or some such similar bollocks. The sorts of things you can't get unless you've been playing for years. That. Is not. The point! I'm seeing Hunter as a game you run fortnightly for six months maximum before another bunch of hunters comes along and frags your uber arse! If you really want to have a long-running Hunter game, when your characters become uber, roll up new starter level people, hand the old characters over to the GM to NPC, and hunt yourselves. It's not ideal, and you do know your old characters' strengths and weaknesses, and you probably don't want to kill them anyway after twelve or so sessions' worth of play, but at least you're still keeping to the point of the whole thing.
And yet Hollywood will have uber-hunters so they can go after the baddies and look impressive. Feh.
Oh, there's going to be a reckoning, all right. Given the tendency to make movie characters uber, by the time the film starts, they're not going to be so much hunters as hunted.
And yes, I've heard of tabletop Hunter games where everyone ends up uber; they wind up as half-angels or some such similar bollocks. The sorts of things you can't get unless you've been playing for years. That. Is not. The point! I'm seeing Hunter as a game you run fortnightly for six months maximum before another bunch of hunters comes along and frags your uber arse! If you really want to have a long-running Hunter game, when your characters become uber, roll up new starter level people, hand the old characters over to the GM to NPC, and hunt yourselves. It's not ideal, and you do know your old characters' strengths and weaknesses, and you probably don't want to kill them anyway after twelve or so sessions' worth of play, but at least you're still keeping to the point of the whole thing.
And yet Hollywood will have uber-hunters so they can go after the baddies and look impressive. Feh.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-06-12 10:25 pm (UTC)Up until 2-3 years ago you used to see groups of Army trucks rumbling by on the Finchley High Road every weekend, along with the Barmy Army guys who keep tanks in residential parking spaces. (NB There are no barracks in Finchley, but there's a logistics depot a couple of miles away in Mill Hill so I assume that's where they go / come from...)
Hasn't happened since SotD came out. Odd.
no subject
Date: 2005-06-12 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-12 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-13 12:40 am (UTC)