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Rocking this! Completed converting Manual of Monsters II this evening. Now working on the layout. Curious as to what people prefer. The old school Monster Manual layouts I've done with the other conversations, or more modern with better, larger color pics? I'm in the fence.

I suppose people could use corrupt Practices to further their ambitious goals but that hardly makes them synonymous. People do inherently evil acts in the name of good but that doesnt make them the same. For a simple game mchanic Ambitious people do "the right thing" to further their goals. honorable people do the right thing because its the right thing. Corrupt people do wrong things to others to achieve their goal.

I suppose people could use corrupt Practices to further their ambitious goals but that hardly makes them synonymous. People do inherently evil acts in the name of good but that doesnt make them the same.

You're a veteran and I'm a noob, so I doubt I have ideas you haven't thought of but this is what comes to mind: Replace Allegiance names with Ambition Honor Corruption Use allegiance like a renown status. The higher the allegiance the more recognizable the character is to the public. Use honor to drive/enhance social skills. The higher the Honor allegiance the more that character perhaps gets a bonus to social skills. An inn owner may recognize the character and be "honored" to have such a citizen in his place of business giving him a free meal or nights stay in a room. You could call for an Honor roll to make the social skill (bargain in the above case) an easy roll, or just use narrative, if that's too much additional rolling.

Done with combining Folio of Fiends and Manual of Monsters I. Working on incorporating Manual of Monsters II and have fixed a lot of bad numbers, copy /paste errors, spelling errors, and just plain bad conversions.

I think it's naive to believe there's a single system "to rule them all". It would have to be mechanics free with complete customizability. What I think is beautiful others will find either too crunchy or not crunchy enough. Round and round we go. Grab a system comparable to what YOU want, house rule and adapt as you see fit, shaken not stirred, enjoy. What people are upset about (IMO) is actually finding and loving THAT system only to find support for it is lacking, non-existent, or recently pulled out from under them. Their "soul mate" has found another love and all they (we) can do is think "WTF is so great about this other person? Oh...they make more money."

Not at all. We're one big happy squid head family! Nothing but love!

NOW this thread is out of place.

Looking at the cover right now. No mention of RQ. Edit: bo, that woulda caused some problems...

As alway, this community has the answers. Its nice having a think tank of generous people who have played these rules since the 70s/80s. Thanks for your input!

Priests were also responsible for converting others to their faith. Spreading the faith by acts of charity. Converting heathens. Spreading their religion to other areas. Missionaries. These are good rules for a priest as Charlesvajr defines it, perhaps an NPC? But the other systems listed in the book are much more flexible leading the reader to believe, perhaps falsly, that the book was designed with PLAYERS in mind and not NPCs. "Divine Magic users believe in the existence of great powers, personalities, and archetypes which dominate the world. Through the agency of an entity, energies are drawn from the god plane and placed in the hands of priests and priestesses. " That's a "source of codified power" that is granted through the deity, not through a temple. OK. So I was understanding it correctly. That was my concern. I apologize for my lack of familiarity with RuneQuest or Glorantha. You really threw me with the RuneLords reference. But tell me: In Magic World POW is gained through successful contests and then experience gain rolls at the end of a chapter/adventure/ect... Is POW(not Power Points) gained quicker in RuneQuest? Seems a priest would burn through quite a bit in a short time.

So awhile back I ordered this to add some new casting systems and possibly pizazz to my MW game. I'm flipping pages and digging what I'm reading, then get to divine magic and the priests who use it. This system doesn't call for PP to cast spells but requires a priest to sacrifice a permanent point of POW to learn the spell. I'm thinking "That's different but kinda neat." Then a little further on I read some spells are not reusable and cost an additional sacrafice of POW to relearn. OUCH. OK. They ARE pretty potent spells, like Resurrection, so I guess I can sorta see that. But THEN I read that once you cast even a "reusable" spell, the priest must return to his temple and study/pray for an entire day per PP of the spell to relearn it. All of the sudden the priest is totally useless as a character who EVER leaves the temple. Am I missing something? I'm hoping someone who uses this can explain it in terms a simpleton (like me) can understand or maybe some insight from the author? (Mr Stafford, I see your name on the cover... )

Yeah, the dragons in my conversions become more powerful with age. I think TSR gave dinos a big HD for massive hit points due to size but forgot to add " attacks as 5 HD monster"

DINOSAURS... Ugh! I intentionally left these out of my conversions so far but doing the new book I decided to go ahead and add them. However, using the conversion formula these creatures tend to have a lot of hit dice making their bite attacks fairly high in the percent range. Now looking at dragons in MW core, you can see dragons typically have a 25% chance to bite/ claw you. Should I go with this type of % based on the dinosaurs being of very low INT, or should they be more dangerous than even a dragon? Opinions needed please.

Please share what you come up with! Would like to see a Drow city for Stormy.

Isn't there some pretty neat french stuff needs translating to english? ;)

Lol. Sorry. Been awhile since I did a cover to cover read. I mostly use it for spells, reference , and inspiration. CF is almost essential for converting people from D&D to BRP.

If you're looking for a more D&D style feel using the simpler BRP mechanics, I'd also highly recommend threedeesix (Rods) most excellent Classic Fantasy. I'm not into "classes" so much anymore (they're too restricrive once you're use to Magic World) but there's still great old school stuff in there such as spells and class abilities . You can get the PDF here: http://www.chaosium.com/classic-fantasy-pdf/ (Edited to avoid litigation )

Welcome Zantom! Always good to see a new convert! I've likewise not seen any play videos but can assure you, you'll have a much easier time running Magic World than most other systems.

Finally getting a chance to play test my Mega Dungeon Ark of the Apocalypse. Its on a Play by Post game over at The Unseen Servant, so it'll be slow going, but it's something since my face to face game switched from fantasy to a modern The Walking Dead campaign. Am excited to see how it plays out.

I'd suggest looking at Deep Magic in Advanced Sorcery. It's an all encompassing magic system that relies on Spheres and Glyphs. The spell caster concentrates on the appropriate Sphere and Glyph for the desired affect. example : 1.Marcus wants to shoot fire at an opponent. He concentrates on the fire sphere and the creation glyph. Success means fire appears on target. 2. Marcus wants to disintegrate a door. He uses flora sphere and dismissal glyph. 3. Marcus wants to become invisible . He concentrates on flesh sphere and alteration glyph. Using these the possibilities are endless and totally unrestrictive, while not filling your book up with dozens of spells. There may be other sources something similar to Deep Magic is used. There is an alternative system in the downloads section here.

Thanks for everything you share, Nick! Markus hasn't added 1/4th of the material I've sent him. He must be pretty busy. Gonna be awhile before I post another file. Its a bear redoing the Manual of Monsters. ..

Really? A little more than a tease, please?

Glorantha, Glorantha, Glorantha. .. All I see in forums anymore. Where are my Magic World peeps?