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  1. I was looking for a description of the differences between the two versions of the Starter Set and found this very helpful video:
  2. I just wanted to say publicly that I totally understand the reason for the new policy announced 5/11/22 and I support it. And I say this as somebody who hasn't run a convention game in years (and thus may end up "inactive" soon).
  3. I am also interested. I would appreciate any tools that could help me run Gloranthan games on Roll20--whether it's RuneQuest, 13G, or HeroQuest..
  4. I'm interested in running Gloranthan games online--possibly for Gen Con Online-- but I have never run an online game before. So I've got a random list of questions. Sorry if this is a little disjointed. If I want to run something online--like RQG, 13G, or HeroQuest, which of them works best with Roll20? Are there any materials available for them like the fillable character sheets I see for D&D? How the heck do I get adventure material up on the platform? I've also played on Discord, and I can see that working for "Theater of the Mind"-only play. I was in a game this last weekend where the audio/video chat was over Discord, and it had a useful dice-rolling macro. Does anybody know if that is available to anybody? @Ian Cooper, if you don't mind me asking: What tools did you use to run HeroQuest for the Virtual Kraken? (I was too late to sign up, and the game was way too early for me in the Central time zone.)
  5. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it here (or anywhere else) before: The day I saw it, I thought Disney's Brave was a great Orlanthi myth: You have a red-headed, high-spirited female protagonist (clearly Vinga) who makes a terrible mistake and then has to try to set things right. And what's more Orlanthi/Vingan than that?
  6. Of these films, I think I've only seen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I like the idea of Glorantha feeling a lot like Westerns. I know that Robin Laws has discussed this on Ken and Robin Talk about Stuff. To paraphrase: RPG adventurers are like the "heroes" of a Western: They are violent and outside the norms of society, but society needs them around to protect against even *worse* threats. Along these lines, can anybody think of good classic Westerns set at a White fort or settlement, and the concern is the conflict with threatening forces outside? Any films like that could have a good Pavis vibe. Forgive me if I've missed it, but has anybody mentioned The Seven Samurai or The Magnificent Seven?
  7. Here's a question I have about the pass/fail cycle: If the heroes have been failing a lot, there's a good chance they will have accumulated penalties, but the logic of the pass/fail cycle* suggests that when the heroes have been failing a lot, they should get an easier victory. The two ideas seem to work against each other. I haven't run enough HQ to see how this works out in actual play. Am I overthinking this? *recognizing, yes, that the pass/fail cycle is a tool, not a rule.
  8. Thank you to the OP and to the respondents who I feel have given me "permission" to use something more generous like 4d6 x 7 to generate ability scores. Lately I've liked ability score arrays for the sake of balance, flexibility, and allowing players to start quickly. For reference and comparison: The 5th edition of That Other Game has a standard ability score array of: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8 (Total: 72/average: 12). Add another 12 into the mix for your seventh RuneQuest characteristic and you're set--at least for humans. 13th Age in Glorantha recommends an array of: 17, 15, 14, 13, 12, 10 (Total: 81/average: 13.5). Add another 14 into the mix for your seventh characteristic (for a total of 95), and you still have base ability scores that could be generated by "low" rolls (rolled ability scores totaling 92 plus an extra 3 points) I haven't had a chance to form a RuneQuest group yet, but Even though I'm not currently playing, I tried rolling a character to see what it's like and I was really disappointed when I rolled up some truly pathetic characteristics. People can argue all they want that it doesn't have that much impact on the game, but it sure doesn't *feel* heroic to have your avatar in the game world below average in everything.
  9. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but I've bought the dice to support the following solution: I stick out a huge-*ss red d20 on the table to indicate the difficulty level--a nod to the ever-present Red Moon. (And, no, I don't know how I'll indicate masteries yet.) Each player has 2 d20's of their own--one red (for the narrator/opposition) and one of any other color.
  10. With this sale on, I would appreciate some advice: If I want a copy of Borderlands and Griffin Mountain, is it better to get the .pdf of the originals, or the Gloranthan Classics reprints?
  11. I definitely like the idea of having one stretch penalty rule rather than separate rules for stretches and for specific ability bonuses. Thanks to @Corvantir for bringing this up. This was the next thing I was going to mention (honest!) For me the big confusion was that, as written, I understood the specific ability bonuses to work in different ways, depending on the challenge: Against a personalized opponent, specific ability bonuses/penalties depended on the participants in the contest. For example, if the hero were a Lankhor Mhy sage using her "Heortling" keyword to fight, she would be at a disadvantage fighting a Lunar soldier. Against an abstract resistance, specific ability bonuses/penalties depended on the abilities of other heroes. So if that Lankhor Mhy sage were using her "Heortling" keyword again--this time to walk through snowy woods, she would suffer a -3 penalty if one of her companions had the "Hunter" keyword, and -6 if that companion had the "Walk through woods on snowshoes" ability.
  12. This makes sense, but it is never how I have read the rules as written. Like @jrutila, I have been confused about the MOP rules as written in HQ2 and HQG. HQG, pp. 81-82 explicitly addresses *players* as the ones subject to MOP's, and then goes on to discuss how having followers may affect those penalties. HQG p. 107 talks about bunching militias and war gangs together into a single resistance. I feel like there's nothing in the rules as currently written to square this circle. (And I just realized that @JonL said this earlier and better than I.) Again, the more explicit you can be, and the more directly you can address players and GM's, the better.
  13. Overall, I like the direction this is going. I like the idea of obvious hero improvement relative to challenges, and I definitely like any direct advice to GM's, which is what this sounds like. I have one question: The way you have phrased this, it sounds like all hero "improvement" is really accomplished by the GM fiddling with resistance levels, so the players don't make any changes on their character sheets. Is this correct? If so, that may be a bit of a challenge for players coming from other games where they are used to seeing the improvement in their heroes. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but again it may be something that will need to be addressed directly.
  14. I like the rules of thumb that you I like this rule of thumb, and I think it would be a good idea to lay it out pretty clearly, preferably supported by examples. Your mention of rituals makes perfect sense to me, as somebody pretty familiar with Glorantha. I think newbie players may need some help understanding the distinction between what their characters can do while on the latest cattle raid and what members of their cult or community can do by acting together. In general, I like the idea of stating pretty explicitly what players can do with magic. I know that it's a point of pride that HeroQuest doesn't take up space with stat blocks, but the fact is that sometimes it's useful to set aside a little space to explicitly lay out how certain concepts can be best applied in playing the game.
  15. I like the way that HQ2 suggested handling animals (and, by implication, NPC's): Set a block aside with a description and notation of "Significant Abilities" and "Exceptional Abilities." A quick summary like that makes it easier for a GM to run the heroes' opponents in a contest, instead of having to plow through paragraphs of exposition to find a couple of "gameable" nuggets of information.
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