Merak Gren

Yes. Hoping someone in the community can help out. At the moment it's more like coordination of separate events to happen around same time, with a common theme. There is no money for this, so bootlaces and ingenuity.

Yes. I've used Roll20 for SB5. Its a bit clunky but usable.

Yes. Someone raised the issue of non published versions. Mournblade and Lobo Blanco are welcome. D20 and other games themed around MM / the External Champion also good. Someone gave an example of using 1889 for a Bastable game. For online tools, could be a challenge but at worst we could have a pregen pdf / paper character sheet, dice and discord.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/320118915031859/ Hello all. I've been off on a hiatus but 2022 brought me back to Stormbringer playing online with @Marcus Bone and others. You may know me, as Merak Green here, as Kagemusha on Rpg.net, John Smith on FB, @DmnWrr on twitter, or Damon at Continuum. Like John Daker, I have had so many names I forget them. So I had the thought, why not? Why not ask for other GMs and players to play Stormbringer as an online con? We could have several GMs over different time zones, players around the world, we could have online games, hang outs, perhaps even interview sessions with authors and contributors? Its starting to feel a little like Waynestock, but it came to me in a dream. Can we make it real?

I'm devastated at the news. Greg, through Chaosium has defined much of whom I am in my likes and dislikes. He introduced me to Stormbringer and Moorcock. To Cthulhu and Lovecraft. To Ringworld and Niven. To RuneQuest and Glorantha. To King Arthur Pendragon and The Great Pendragon Campaign. My life would have been so empty without him and Chaosium. I'm glad that I met him at Continuum in 2008, that he inspired me and others to form the Pendragon Eschille. Thank you Greg. Damon.

There is a Poll on rpg.net about the most influential games apart from d&d. BRP is doing quite well. [POLL] The 3 Most Important RPGs other than D&D

Indeed. The whole D6 phenomenom? Kick started by the good folks at Chaosium. I do like the Chaosium logo in the Ghostbusters Box.

Interesting. I'd love to see it all when finished. Once I've written something up, I'll send you my notes to compare.

The politics I'm hoping should divide the collective and cause mechanical difficulty when using community resources. I'm not concerned about the nitty gritty, but how groups of people are harder to work with without leadership.

I've had a look at the links and have to say the Factions in the Rennaisance SRD is looking quite good. However, rather than have RP's as presented, I'd combine that with the Allegiance scores. I like the beliefs. My thinking had not come this far, but it makes a good template.

Yes. That sounds about right. In terms of privilidgeS, once your 'political' credentials are established support from the 'party faithful' is much easier. Of course, different professions will have a different spread of political ideals. The Farmers, the scientists, the administration and the military. Getting them all to work together will be tricky.

Whilst responding to these, I've remembered the 'Kingdom' rules in Warlords of Alexander. Something like that may work where I use opposed / Ressistance table rolls to determine conflict between groups. I'd have to define how the groups are made up. I am clearer now, in that I want a system that sits in the background during a 'winterphase' set up. Conflict during the adventuring phase may be as simple as opposed rolls, to see how 'voters' are swayed. Success failure can be tracked and used for year end bonuses / penalties. So a disastrous leader, will make success of comunity projects much harder or less efficient. I think I will also need a corruption mechanic so crooked leaders can buy success when they need it. I'll have a think, read some of the material proposed and see if I can come up with something sensible. Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll download and read. Thanks again.

To an extent. I'm not entirely happy in using status as written, and wanted something more specific.

I hadn't considered RQ: Empires. I have always been more interested in the Glorantha aspect of RQ and not paid enough notice to this book. Thanks for the suggestion.