I hate to come late to a party!!!! Really, there should be some sort of magic that alerts authors when people are talking about their book.
I wrote, edited, and yes (sorry) illustrated "Six Seasons in Sartar." As you probably already know the hardcover is out and available, LOL. Like i said, a month late to the party.
GAZZA, thank you. Really. That made my night tripping across this by accident. You are right about the stat block thing; you can just give things a CR and go from there, like Broo CR 3. But yeah, RQG is still detail oriented. If any of you like, go back to DriveThru and you will find a free (yes FREE) HQG/13G adaptation book that has a cinematic set of RQG rules to streamline things a tad bit more...but still. There is only so far you can push it before it isn't RQG any more.
Anyway, thanks to all of you. I am now a couple of books away from being a Gold bestseller (only the second JC Book to do so) and I owe it to you guys and threads like this one. So really, thank you.