Mark Mohrfield

8 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:

Canon to right of them,
Canon to left of them,
Canon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with truth, ah hell,
Boldly they read and well,
Into the jaws of Confusion,
Into the mouth of hell
Read the ol’ Grognards.

This is art.

On 4/25/2021 at 6:18 AM, French Desperate WindChild said:

at the end of the day a massive cube becomes a sphere because gravity is "centric"

I never heard any planet or star in other shape than "about spheres" 🙂

Well, there's Bizzaro/Htrae. What, you don't consider it scientifically accurate?

Any news on what's being worked on right now?

Poul and Karen Anderson's The King of Ys series. Cults, including Christianity, play a strong role.

Well, to me the Gloranthan iteration of the rules will always be HeroQuest, dern it.

There's the introduction the story A History of My Black Horse Troop in the old RQ Companion which seems to be written in some future age. It refers to "microscopic and sub-atomic Investigation" of the paper, and analysis of leather binding as being "from a creature whose genetic make-up is approximately 57% identical with the present-day horse." That indicates an scientifically advanced society, so there may be hope.

I’ve got one. I got it at one of the RQ cons.

On 7/18/2020 at 12:31 PM, Ian Cooper said:

It's something I would like to do, at some point. But realistically we have to increase the market share for QuestWorlds/HeroQuest.

PS It's not true to say there are no books planned for HeroQuest Gorantha, at least one is very close to completion.

 

 

Can we have any information?

From the Guide; " Arkat Returns Five times! The ways of Heroquesting are abruptly opened, and it isn’t what everyone expected. One is a troll, one is a Chaos monster, and no one is quite sure which incarnation the other three are." One the remaining three Arkats is a Duck, which certainly no one expected. However, no one believes him. "But honest and truly, I am Arkat!" He attempts to prove that he is Arkat to anyone he meets by imitating some past feat of the ancient hero. These always spectacularly backfire. One day, an attempt will backfire so badly that it will end the Third Age, thus proving his point.


 

Is a print-on-demand version a possibility, and if so when will it become available?

At Gen Con this year, I heard that Chaosium was working on this as a Runequest supplement. Any news on it?

11 hours ago, Joerg said:

It is not just possible but likely that road sewerage is treated transported separately from roof runoff, as it is practically impossible to keep beasts of burden or free-running husbandry from defecating on the streets, and clearing the streets of these droppings cannot be done during times of high traffic.

Poul Anderson, in some of his works had horses going about in diapers to prevent this.

What about the World of Forms?

23 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

 

Oh, and the fact that just about all mounted troops work better as skirmishers. Just about any tribe, except maybe the Rhinos and Bisons, would do better peppering their opponents with arrows and outmaneuvering their foes than by charging.  The Mongol steppe nomad analogy, right down to Waha "Khan" titles, really fits better than knights or cataphacti. 

 

Time once again to link to Sandy Petersen's article on the relative strengths and weaknesses of missile and melee cavalry and infantry.

http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha/aow.html

I've used "Son o Broo" as an insult.

In addition to the other arguments, no pirates would make Umathela a less cool place to have rpg adventures.

I was very sorry to learn of this. The rpg hobby has lost one of its standard bearers.

On 9/3/2018 at 8:40 PM, Ian Cooper said:

There is material. We are not clear yet how to bring out.

Steve's post was in response to my question about the status of the Nochet sourcebook, so just let me start chanting "HeroQuest!....HeroQuest!...HeroQuest!" in the background🙂.

Will there be any information on the communities in the Big Rubble such as the Real City, Opili's Fort and the Troll Clans?

57 minutes ago, JonL said:

Issaries wasn't a rebel god as such, but he does have movement in common with several of the masks. Lokarnos is mentioned among the other gods present. It would be neat to have your PC come in with with the horse mask and somehow use movement to take trade from Lokarnos somehow.

Unfortunately, the character lacks the movement Rune. He has Water, Communication and Harmony.

I'm preparing to send my players into the HeroQuest presented in Pavis: Gateway to Adventure scenario Red Moon Rising. I've managed a pretty good match for all the characters except the Issaries/Donandar worshiper. Does anyone have any ideas for what the appearance, Lunar names, Goals, and Secrets of such a mask would be?

I assume that Aldrya worshipers can summon gnomes. Of what sizes?

18 hours ago, Steve said:

The HQG-specific stuff needed to turn the systemless book into something ready to play for HQG. So that would pretty much be the relevant keywords etc.

Okay, that makes sense.

13 hours ago, Ian Cooper said:

Right. A genre pack, as defined in HeroQuest is the keywords special ability definitions etc you need to play the game.

I hope that includes a questionnaire for forming communities such as Esrolian Houses.

4 hours ago, Ian Cooper said:

Most likely we will end up with an HQG genre pack for a systemless or RQG book. But its a little way off to call as yet.

This statement is somewhat confusing. What is a HQG genre pack for a systemless book?

11 hours ago, Ian Cooper said:

Here is my canonical example of a HeroQuest contest. The Viper vs. The Mountain.

Now this would seem to be a fight to the death, but actually the prize is a little different. The Mountain has a prize of: prove Tyrion's guilt. The Viper has a prize of: Force a confession that the Mountain raped and killed his sister. The GM declares that these are graduated goals. He tells the Viper's player that any victory will free Tyrion but only a Major Defeat or better will force the confession.

The Viper beats the Mountain, but its only a Minor Victory. To get a better Victory, and win the confession, the Viper tries a Parting Shot against his falling opponent. He fails, gives RPs to the Mountain, who then turns the tables and kills the Viper.

The Mountain gets the prize, Tyrion is found guilty.

The Viper is dead too, but that was incidental to the prize (though not to the Viper...) 

I have to point out that the Mountain also dies.