CitizenK2 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Hi all: I'm going to be running an introductory one-shot of Runequest Classic Edition at our local roleplaying club in early March. This will be a 3.5 hour session, and I want it to be done-in-one. I've looked at Apple Lane, and the pawnshop scenario has left me a bit cold. The Rainbow Mounds scenario might have more potential. Snake Pipe Hollow looks cool, but is a bit big and quite deadly from what I've read. Any suggestions for good published one-shots I should consider? If not I'll just build up a scenario of my own. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean_RDP Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 How can you not like Gringle's Pawn Shop! lol Seriously I know there are some small encounters in Big Rubble, but for one shots not sure. Quote Its 2300hrs, do you know where your super dreadnoughts are? http://reigndragonpressblog.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Greg Stafford's The Sea Cave in The Old School RQ Source Pack would be ideal! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I always loved the bar fight in Apple Lane...reminds me of my favorite brawling game of all time, Swashbuckler. Alas, it's also lost in time...Swashbuckler, not Apple Lane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenK2 Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Honestly, I could see some of my players feeling like the baboons are in the right since the item they are trying to reclaim was stolen from them. That's a big part of my aversion to that story. I'm gonna sit down and read Rainbow Mounds tonight. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 31 minutes ago, CitizenK2 said: Honestly, I could see some of my players feeling like the baboons are in the right since the item they are trying to reclaim was stolen from them. That's a big part of my aversion to that story. I've run Gringle's Pawn shop quite a few times. It's never ended well. Most of the time the players get distracted by the bandits and the baboons get their stuff back. The best being "hey Gringle we caught these bandits breaking in but we've no idea why the shop burnt down" - "What about the baboons" - "oh yeah". I think in all my games, the baboons get it back. Gringle then sends them to the Rainbow Mounds to do another job - getting the stolen loot off white eye. Rainbow mounds is a dungeon/cave crawl, but an an enjoyable and shortish one. Steer clear of SPH - it's too deadly. The first scenario I ever played in was a made up one. We were caravan guards defending against hungry trolls/trollkin. With this approach you can vary the strength of the adversaries easily. The Issaries priest defended his goods and healed/supported the PCs. It also introduced the idea of talking before fighting as the priest tried to buy off the trolls with food. 1 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 3 hours ago, Yelm's Light said: I always loved the bar fight in Apple Lane That's also good, but it means finding an obscure White Dwarf. Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noita Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I ran the bar fight as a free form introduction to a game I ran. Great fun. There was a whole bunch of trophy Baboon heads on the wall behind the bar, left over from their failed raid on Gringles. At closing their bound spirits all shouted "Time gentlemen." Hell Pits of Nightfang is a particular favourite of mine as an introduction to the game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noita Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 1 hour ago, CitizenK2 said: Honestly, I could see some of my players feeling like the baboons are in the right since the item they are trying to reclaim was stolen from them. That's a big part of my aversion to that story. I'm gonna sit down and read Rainbow Mounds tonight. :-) Have them play the Baboons. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenK2 Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 I'm listening to the RPG Academy playthrough of Gringle's Pawnshop ... the GM reworked it so the PCs are ducks breaking into the shop before Lunar troops arrive to buy the artifact the ducks seek. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 6 hours ago, Iskallor said: Have them play the Baboons. Genius. Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al. Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 The Money Tree 1 Quote Rule Zero: Don't be on fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRose Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Play Gringle Pawnshop in reverse. Have the Baboons hire the players to get their stolen heirloom back . You can also change Gringle then to n Eytries Merchant if people want to continue playing. Also can run some stuff out of Borderlands. Recently I had my player deal with an Anklyosaurus that was calmly munching on the crops of the Weis Village. They had to think their way out of that one as Dinosaur is not aggressive but also almost immune to any attacks they could make 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenK2 Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Any recommendations for pre-generated adventurers? I see there are a dozen in the "Fangs" PDF, so I figured I might just use that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRose Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Borderlands and beyond has 8 pre rolled characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noita Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 12 hours ago, David Scott said: Genius. I've run it with the players as the outlaws too. Each way is great fun. But Baboons are the best. I like the suggestion that the Baboons hire the pcs, that makes lots of sense. Plus they get to loot Gringles just like the other groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwheeldancer Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I'd go with Rainbow Mounds. BTW if you map out the described colours of the caverns you will see that the colours are circular bands that form a spectrum that emanates from he room with the magic staff in it (presemably the place that the Dragonewt Plinth is built on top of, above-ground). Very cool. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styopa Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 If they're big former D&D players, as a demo I like very much to take some utterly pedestrian D&D adventure, B1 or the Village of Hommlet and convert it over. It's low powered, so conversion is a triviality. For such players, that adventure STUNNINGLY highlights how much more realistic, interesting, (and frankly, far more lethal) RQ mechanics are. It's the most fun, of course, when they've actually played the adventures but don't recall the details so there's still some room for dm surprises. The predictability isn't a problem, as it builds them a little extra survivability advantage, which I guarantee they'll need. If you want them, let me know, I'm pretty sure I have them already converted with RQ3 stat blocks lying around somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelm's Light Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 I still seem to be unable to quote directly anymore, so I guess I'll just have to make reference to the original quotes another way... David Scott said: "That's also good, but it means finding an obscure White Dwarf." I never even considered that, thought it was part of the original pack...but then they tend to run together after 30 years. I do, however, have several WD scenarios hiding in boxes in the garage...have to dig them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenK2 Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 On a related note - when you are generating PCs for a RQ one shot, do you tend to use the guild credit and / or the Previous Experience rules? Or just give the stats that look right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10baseT Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) You should look at some of the RQ6/Mythras stuff and convert it. It's very easy. I converted Caravan from Book of Quests. I think i had the caravan leave from Jansholm. Then to Smithstone then Aylesford (i can't remember, but it was quite easy). Anyway, RQ6 has a good amount of scenarios out and they're top notch. Edited February 18, 2017 by 10baseT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pentallion Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Gaumata's Vision runs about 3.5 hours. It's very interesting, good introduction to the strangeness of Glorantha and isn't too tough for beginning characters. But my personal favorite is to throw the group into Scorpion Hall. I know it's a solo adventure, but it's also just right for a group of 3-5 players. It tends to invariably have some hilarious moments. It does require you to map out the Hall and convert it from solo to a regular adventure. But that's not too hard. just make a map and note where everything is and you're good to go. I've seen some really hilarious things happen when the adventure is suddenly multiplayer. It is deadly, but you feel like you really accomplished something. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Hunter Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Garhound contest from sun country(?) would be my suggestion. Quote www.backtobalazar.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenK2 Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Thanks for all the suggestions! I've read Rainbow Mounds, and I think I'll either run that or run a homebrew session. I've started creating some PCs, which took a few attempts to get the Previous Experience section right, but I think I've got the hang of it now. Thanks. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GianniVacca Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 On 21/02/2017 at 1:31 PM, CitizenK2 said: I've started creating some PCs, which took a few attempts to get the Previous Experience section right, but I think I've got the hang of it now. This should be useful: http://2ndage.blogspot.com/2016/07/runequest-classic-edition-char-gen.html Quote 「天朝大國」,https://rpggeek.com/rpgitem/92874/celestial-empire 很有意思: http://celestialempire.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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