HierophantX

Am I crazy? It appears that the base % for weapon use is missing from my copy of RQ. I have BRP so no worries, but am I doing the right thing in RQ terms by giving PC's base plus their skill (Dex+STR?) Wasn't there a thread recently about rethinking some armor values? I can't seem to find it. Anyway Mongol use of silk wraps helping reduce dmg from arrows... From every account that I have read on this use of armor, the benefit wasn't that it stopped the arrow, but that it made the arrow easier to remove (or possible to remove if it were barbed), and reduced the risk of infection due to stray dirty fibers remaining in the wound (silk fibers being easy to remove, wool being impossible). So maybe instead of actually increasing DR maybe reducing chance to impale (arrows only) and/or a post combat bonus to first aid %.

It must've been 1991. Stormbringer. I had only recently moved to Wisconsin after a 3-year stint in North Dakota. There was only one gaming store in Minot and all they sold were Palladium and FASA products, so you can imagine the world I lived in. Then I found myself in this small town in northern Wisconsin, nary a gaming store to be found. (actually I found it later but it was run from the back of this guy's law office). So I was off in another city (Wausau) attending an Unitarian Youth-Con when one of the other guys was like "yeah there's a gaming store a couple blocks from here." I ran. Bounded up the stairs and the first thing I saw was Great Cthulhu's tentacled maw next to this wonderful cover-art of the White Wolf bearing aloft a certain nameless black runesword. It completely blew my my mind apart that Lovecraft and Moorcock, two things I had fallen into in a BIG way suddenly existed as rpg-settings. The implication also, was that I wasn't the only other human that thought that this was absolutely awesome. *sigh*

Has anyone downloaded it? What do we think? I may just download it anyway as the pdf price is right, but just wondering. And since I have the BRP big book, why would I need RQ? I basically already have it don't I?