Eddy

Well I am a bit rusty on the Harn religions. But it always seemed that the issue was assigning any "magic /divine powers" to each god. You would have to look at each god and then assign whatever spells/powers would seem appropriate and you only had so many. I spent hours back in the 80s looking at each spell and trying to assign it to whatever god seemed appropriate. For example what spells/powers would Halea, Sarajin or maybe Agrik etc have? I even have some typed up sheets detailing this agony!! Nowadays maybe Runequest 6 is better suited to the divine magic, who knows... but the Renaissance (Alchemy chapter) RPG would be my default for Harn Shek P'var magic without a doubt. Plus the Witchcraft magic chapter is sublime. Easily the best medieval magic system in the BRP world. What can beat a spell called "For to Fling Back a Spell in the Face of a Caster". Anyway It's free check it out!

I GMed Harn back in the 80s using classic Runequest, and it was always a bit of a problem with the magic system then. I just used battle magic and ignored Rune magic. Nowadays, If it was me I would use the BRP based Renaissance rules for Alchemy which uses the elements and is very close to the Shek Pvar magic system. There is a free version available somewhere. For anyone who knows Harn, it's the religions that are the real problem!!

Thanks guys, some good suggestions here.

Hi Does anybody know of any NEW, decent old school type Runequest adventures in the vein of say Borderlands or maybe White Dwarf adventures. Preferably set in Prax, With minimal page count and not 50 NPCs to manage. I know there's the Jonstown Compendium thingy but the Drive Thru search only brings up the more popular stuff involving clans etc. Basically I want a an exploratory type scenario involving some classic Runequest monsters.

Nice one, thank you

Thanks, I looked up and down for that!! That's good I prefer a simple 10% Critical rather than the more complex Critical (5%) and Special Success (20%) Cheers

At first glance this looks good, just what I've been after. Just one thing though, what is the Critical success percentage is it 5% of the skill or 10%. Good work though Eddy

I personally would love a brief 16 page simple "modernised" BRP system. In fact only the other day I pulled out from Trolpak the BRP rules to see if it would work!

Hi I'm not sure if this has been asked before so apologies in advance. Having purchased the BRP Universal etc PDF I am wondering if a character sheet exists for BRP with Hit Points by Location on it. Having played Runequest back in the early 80s this is by far my favourite mechanic. Thanks Ed

Hi Just out of curiosity, I am wondering if anyone knows the reason why the original (197...?.)cover of Cults of Prax was changed from the picture of the baboon/man on horse/female in bikini to the coloured map of Prax for the UK Games Workshop edition. Was it a copyright thing? Cheers in advance Ed

Cheers guys, it's as I thought

Hi Having played Runequest 6 a few years ago, the combat left me a little cold due to the extra admin involved in Action Points and Special Effects. Question... being interested in Lyonesse (which uses the same system) can combat be resolved ignoring both Action Points and Special Effects and just playing it out i.e. just hit vs parry as in the older RQ games?

Can I ask what the quality of the paper in the Drive Thru Lyonesse hardcover is like. I have been disappointed with some POD stuff from Drive Thru as the paper seems really thin. Mainly the Renaissance stuff from a few years back. I must admit though, I have been impressed with Chaosiums Classic reprints (Borderlands, Pavis and Big Rubble) I think the paper is decent quality. I have no idea who prints this. At an eye watering £60 for Lyonesse I feel it needs asking!!

This sounds great, I think RQG can't get enough scenarios. Maybe publish a scenario at a time and see where it leads. From what your scenarios sound like I'd be interested. I think there's enough clan initiation type stuff around though, but that's my opinion!

Borderlands without a doubt, but you could start with Apple Lane as a taster. Move on to Griffin Mountain after Borderlands, this is a sandbox though. Although some say easily compatible there may be a bit of work converting to RQG(Augments, Rune magic and stronger beginning PCs). You could still just play RQ classic with no conversion at all!