Montjoy

try this link

http://www.thedesignmechanism.com/products.php#!/RuneQuest/p/12303351/category=2826223

think that is right

For what it is worth I'd much rather they be split.

I don't want to have to dig through the new RQ version and Glorantha stuff to find the formerly RQ6 posts.

To put it bluntly, I don't want to spend more time figuring out which posts are relevant than I do reading the posts that are.

37 minutes ago, Aini said:

I am curious as to what the Delta Force wounds system is, i don't suppose you might share the name of the book?

I believe they are talking about the system from the game Delta Force published back in the 80s by Task Force Games.

47 minutes ago, Gollum said:

 

Likewise, there is an alternate rule which allows to have more Hit Points at the start of the game: SIZ + CON instead of (SIZ + CON) / 2. That allows characters to survive more wounds ... But I don't remember where it comes from.

 

BRP pages 30 (in mine at least) Box on top left of page titled Option: Total Hit Points

7 hours ago, Mankcam said:

This made me laugh so much I spilled my coffee lol

Hehe, but I sure wouldn't bet against it.

33 minutes ago, Archivist said:

Mook rules sound great.

Are the Mook rules from BRP Core?

I know there's a Pulp BRP Suppliment. Is that useful?

 

 

We just play that a single hitpoint loss takes them out. Simple as that.

I don't believe there are rules for it in the golden book.

To give an example: at our table we play with hit points by location for player characters.

Then when a style of game calls for lesser opponents/packs of mooks we have:

Regular npcs (done like players),

Henchman npcs (they have a single HP pool equal to calculating the chests HP)

and Mooks 1 hitpoint of dmg and they are down. We use to do a hit and they were down but we changed it to actually having to inflict a single point of dmg.

How are they all the same?  I mean are they all built similarly for combat? Assuming so, Id remind them that combat isn't the best way to get out of a situation. Then I'd explain all the ways the non combat skills can be used to generate a successful outcome without resorting to violence. Maybe also just how deadly combat in BRP games can be.

If it isn't their combat skill could you please explain what skills you mean?

Most of my players major differences come through how they play and which non combat skills they have focused in. There are so many skills in most versions of brp that I seldom have similar characters in my group but when I have they seem to enjoy using them to back each other up with bonuses and such. In the end though it all seems to shake out from how the character is played.

If it were me I'd just avoid the confusion of sticking a number on it if that number wasn't a 7, because everyone is going to just call it RQ7 anyway. 

We just don't need the confusion regardless of how minor it is.

On this one, maybe the mutations aren't actually bad things to have.

Donno how far out there you wanna go on that sorta thing.

It is worth noting that it took the locals teaching them how to get through these tough times as well. Your poor colonists wont have that going for them

Are the colonists bringing along supplies for renewable energy production or will they start stripping the new planet of it's limited resources for those needs?

If they plan for the 1st and something goes wrong with their equipment I could see much fun being had trying to solve their basic energy needs.

I'd also add that the above has the possible benefit of providing seedlings.

Some crops really do benefit starting in greenhouses instead of just seeds stuck in the outdoors.

The facility and stock could be in storage until say 2 months before arrival, at this point the botonists/farmers are awoke to begin their work.

This would have fresh food in production before the bulk of the colonists awoke allowing them to further stretch their prepared food stocks, or the robots turn on at 3 months away, the auto systems kick on 6 weeks out, etc

I don't disagree because that is what I said a couple posts up as well

-->Maintain an orbital safe house of seed stock by farming and harvesting in the now largely empty craft as a backup. 

I do like the idea of radiated plant monsters or mutant problems

Sorry, I know I keep mentioning the seed/farming aspect but I think it should be a HUGE concern for colonists.

There isn't a guarantee their seed couldn't fail or be damaged.

Are we assuming they could survive long term on their new home on native vegetation and it's domestication?

Couldn't a properly trained small group of botanists and technicians remain in orbit.

Maintain an orbital safe house of seed stock by farming and harvesting in the now largely empty craft as a backup. It would provide some oxygen and their food without need from the planet.

The technicians and their smallcraft maintaining the satellites, etc.

All of this only until the planet has things well under control. If play would be after that has occurred this would be largely pointless of course.

Granted coming back up with ease may be off the table but you don't actually need a manned high fuel use vehicle to continue to deploy items from orbit. They could make drops much like the capsules of the mercury-apollo projects landed.

In case the tone of my posts is off, I am not arguing for anything here just tossing out ideas.

Here is a potentially different take, that I hope might be interesting.

What if the ship is dismantled after arrival but instead used primarily to construct orbital facilities.

These are then used to defend, oversee early colonization efforts, provide communication, etc

Gonna need satellites. Might want a space station for scientific or perhaps defensive purposes, maybe oribital farms for early support while colonists terraform the new home etc

Also my assumption for anything like this would be a space construction. 

I really can't think of any merit for building something like that planet side that would offset the negatives. This is not me claiming there aren't any of course, I just cant think of one.

Considering the planet would be unsettled and likely have less than ideal places to land wouldn't a smaller footprint be ideal?

I honestly don't know since this is part science, part guess, part imagination.

I just keep coming back to the more compressed space being easier to construct, shield, heat, supply power to, etc and then the smaller footprint for landing.

I keep picturing a controlled thrust descent of some sort, perhaps over water? I donno can it float, no clue just throwing stuff out here.

Honest question about scale here...

Is it not easier to build a cube than such a long ship?

This is exactly what happened in the history of the Honor Harrington books. 

They arrived to the Manticore system to find them occupied by other people from earth after FTL was created.

In this case though they arrived and readied the planet for the sleeper ship persons.

Also, after a couple hundred years of maturity, the investments they'd made generated a very comfortable incomes to live off of.

(going from memory here but pretty sure that was the basics)

Maybe go with idealized "you" based on you but here is a pool of scores to distribute among your abilities.

Everyone gets the same numbers and can put them where they believe they should go.

Don't do it if anyone is even a little sensitive about their actual IQ, Weight(size), or physical capabilities. 

It won't end well starting a game with hurt feelings.

Magic World halves skills when the requirements are not made as well.

Pages 71-72.

^ this might of been what I was remembering.