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1 hour ago, David Scott said:

Except the pointless exercise of printing another table out. My game is internally consistent, why do I need to make more work for myself?

You can never have enough tables.

29 minutes ago, Fenspar said:

Evidently Chaosium want to keep the focus on RQG right now.

I am not sure about that. Jeff was very keen to say there would be a Fantasy Earth line stretching across Europe, so expect some focus on that.

7 minutes ago, Thot said:

Stormbringer 6 should be done. If necessary, create a world for it that captures the general mood of Moorcock's writings without plagiarizing him.

A World based on Magic, perhaps?

11 hours ago, Iskallor said:

I saw that the spirit rune isnt for pcs anymore. I thought the majority of Praxians had it? And what about shamans?

If it says in the runes that it isn't for PCs, just ignore it.

If you can have a rationale as to why a PC gets it, then use that.

RuneQuest shouldn't be about "You can't have this", except for very specific cult/cultural conditions.

There is also RQ SciFi which merges the Traveller and MRQI SRDs.

For me, HeroQuest is more about the spirit than the letter of the rules.

If you think that Ceremonialist should be under Harmony then put it under Harmony. 

I can see why it is under the Earth Rune as Ernalda's prime rune is Earth, so a subcult should be about Earth and something else.

I like the example of Yelm families, they worship Yelm as an overall ancestor and as the Emperor/Sun, but also honour their own Yelmic ancestors, stretching back to Yelm himself. They can recite their family trees and summon powers from their ancestors in much the same way as a Daka Fal shaman. However, they use a Yelmic drum, with bells and whistles, dance a Yelmic ballet and recite Yelmic prayers when doing so.

The Storm pantheon killed a lot of Dragons - Vadrus killed one to liberate the Blue Woman, Orlanth killed Aroka to liberate Heler, others are there but don't immediately spring to mind.

What Alakoring did, I think, was to collect the various Storm Pantheon powers and, probably, use the Carmanian Demonizing ways to systematically break dragons. That was different, no longer do you go out to kill a Dragon and come back a celebrity, instead you go out to kill dragons.

On 5/28/2018 at 11:27 AM, Jeff said:

When I ran the Dragonrise occurring as a background event, I treated the appearance of the True Dragon more like something out of Call of Cthulhu. It caused temporary insanity - amnesia, hysterical fear, catatonia, etc., - among those who failed a POWx5 check. 

Pah, seen one True Dragon, seen them all.

I like the Father Ted analogy (These are small, those are far away), so a True Dragon lying across a range of hills a long way away looks like a Dream Dragon up close. It's when they fly, breathe a jet of flame that fills a valley and eat a regiment in one gulp that you should begin to worry.

RQ Fantasy Earth was another thing we were not asked to mention. The previous posts broadly cover what was said, though.

47 minutes ago, Evilroddy said:

Great picture. The Nephilim would be proud! However it makes me ask was Wakboth ever a giant humanoid? I always pictured the entity as far more alien and often shifting form and morphology but without much in the way of anthropomorphic features.  

Son of Thed and Ragnaglar, I always saw him as a giant, mutated broo. 

Now, Kajabor is the shifting, amorphous chaos void.

You know, I saw the article and that never entered my head, even though it's so obvious.

I must be getting old.

4 hours ago, Ian Cooper said:

I think that the market for HQ is similar to Powered By the Apocalypse or Fate Accelerated (I think Fate is actually closer to the RQ market out-of-the-box).

When I first played Powered by the Apocalyspe, my first thought was that it was a simplified version of HeroQuest, but with fewer choices. I haven't played any version of Fate, yet, though.

57 minutes ago, Mikus said:

Enjoy your system Comrades, I think I’ll hold out with the Old Guard and await the twilight. 

I Am the Old Guard and I haven't a clue what you are saying. 

Maybe you are the New Old Guard.

3 minutes ago, Yelm's Light said:

I dunno...it seems to me that anyone not of Hero level might feel a bit of fear when they see the mountain-range-sized, firebreathing (or not, depending on your point of view) reptile flying at them with hunger in its eyes and talons the size of housing tracts...

Yes, but should that fear stretch into your children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and so on for centuries?

I've been looking for a way to get rid of the Block for a while, as the Devil waking up will be part of the Hero Wars for me. I hadn't thought of an underground war, even though it is now blindingly obvious. Time to summon a Krarsht army to fight those pesky Stormbullers.

2 hours ago, Mankcam said:

I just wish HQ had a few more genres to show it off. Its a very innovative system for storytelling.

That was one of the things we were asked not to mention at the Chaosium Seminar at Eternalcon. Let's just say that HQ will probably have other genres, including one that I think suts HQ better than any other system.

I suppose it really depends on how loose or tight your definitions of the power are.

If you have a really tight definition then Freeform Powers are fairly easy to use, as they just become another Power.

If you have a loose definition then Freeform powers can present challenges to the Narrator, as Paolo has mentioned, with things being worked out on the fly.

So, for example, the Death Sphere that Archivist mentiones. You could say that the Death Sphere causes damage to any enemy within it, that means you can use Might, Range and Targets to work out how much damage and to how many people. Alternatively, the Death Sphere might have variable effects, allowing you to layer other Powers into it, so you could use a Cantrip against one target, or an Arcane spell against another and so on, this would be more flexible but more difficult to manage.

Personally, I prefer looser definitions of powers and abilities, that way players can use them in more creative ways.

12 hours ago, Joerg said:

But was it simple assassination, or was it a coordinated mass utuma (self-sacrifice to reach enlightenment) on those who stood a chance to join into the Great Dragon at this time?

You know, in all these years that thought had never even entered my head. Thanks. The idea that at least part of the ending of the EWF was a mass utuma opens up so many ideas.

1 hour ago, Psullie said:

any relation... 

 

 

Could well be

I had the great pleasure of attending Eternalcon 2018 over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Normally, I hate doing nothing at Cons, as I think it is time wasted, especially when flying to Germany, but spent most of Saturday morning/afternoon just taking in the sun on the terrace, overlooking the Rhine, relaxing, sometimes talking, sometimes just takling in the atmosphere. I might be finally understanding what Eternalcon is about.

Anyway, here are my thoughts in Good/Bad/Ugly mode, which I am reliably informed is an old-fashioned way of doing this kind of thing, but that suits dinosaurs like me. After all, I am apparently an Old Man ...

Good 

• Chaosium seminar- some really good stuff, although we were asked not to blog any of it
• Going for a walk on Saturday morning and seeing a deer
• Wrote One Flew Over  the Dragon's Nest scenario for Continuum
• Played some fun card games
• Excellent discussions about HeroQuesting and new RuneQuest Glorantha
• Played Dragon  Pass until 3am and almost thought I had a chance until a 4 point hydra stacked with the Travelling Stone and a Superhero munched through my stacks. Undone by Androgeus, Sir Ethilrist and The Hydra.
• Got up at 8am, or just after, plenty of time for shower and breakfast before 10am Traveller game
• Lots of steps - 17k on Friday and again on Saturday, 6k on Sunday but 33k on Monday 
• Very interesting and fun Traveller game Sunday morning
• Very enjoyable King Arthur hillfolk game  on Saturday afternoon, atmospheric and fun story generation game, gave me some ideas for HeroQuest
• Thanked for writing Merrie England and said the Chaos Society wanted to translate it into German but couldn't 
• RuneQuestions seminar, but nowhere near as useful as the Chaosium one
• Closing ceremony where everyone wants to come back next year 
• Made early train  at 0737 so plenty of time at the airport
• Got back home by 2pm so could make my regular Monday night RuneQuest game

Bad

• Terrified of butting into a conversation and being rejected, so early to bed on Friday
• Forgetting that sign up in in the Rittersaal and missing the English speaking games
• Nothing to play Saturday morning or afternoon so a bit bored
• Child vampires- Creepy as f**k
• Offered to play One Flew Over the Dragon's Nest but nobody signed up
• Not playing Gloranthan RuneQuest at all

Ugly

• Snoring convention in Room 141
• Games advertised but not being run
• Getting home to find the water was off due to repairs to the mains

There seems to be an awful lot of Glorantha stuff in the pipeline, I think there were over 20 supplements planned.

Good news for me, bad news for my bank account.

On 5/13/2018 at 7:54 PM, jajagappa said:

As Edna says in the Incredibles, "No capes!" 😉 

Damn!

On 5/13/2018 at 6:45 PM, Iskallor said:

I thought all you needed was a cool cape.

Didn't The Incredibles do away with the idea that SuperHeroes need capes, with lots of examples of why capes are bad?

I know that he has made the text for Other Suns available but has asked people not to reformat it.

Other Suns was pretty good, close enough to be like RQ/BRP but far away to be really annoying. In the end, we ignored the differences and pretty much played it as RQ/BRP.