Sid Vicarious

13 hours ago, David Scott said:

Forgotten as a weapon, not as a place

I saw woomeras used competitively at the Yuendumu Sports Day in the early 1980s, at Yuendumu, NT, Australia. The range increase was impressive, and skilled users did not suffer much in the way of accuracy. 

In the example for the Proteus spell on p120 should "pig" be "bison"?

The thread is barely two days old and already three of its contributors have been banned for something. Very TBP.

It's available on driverthrurpg, but not as a pdf. 

3 hours ago, Darius West said:

Hi Sid.

           Let's put it this way...  You know how the Starters Set has the Battle of Dangerford as a solo adventure?  Not every battle is going to be laid out with that amount of detail.  The Battle Roll stands in for either the PCs as Commanders (Leading NPCs) or the PCs as warriors serving under a Commander when GMs don't have time to produce that level of detail.

I personally also allow Battle to act as an "Evaluate Battlefield" skill.  You get bonuses for certain spells, successful recon reports, good maps, etc.  Riding the field yourself is a good idea and will net you a bonus too, depending on the time spent doing so.  This can be used to tell the weakest point in a defensive structure, or how an enemy is likely to line up based on terrain and where and what the crucial terrain features of a coming battle will be.

The Defending Apple Lane Battle roll is because the players are leading NPCs and need to give orders that need to be obeyed.  The players are commanders leading NPCs in this situation.

 I was surprised to see this thread had been necroed. Its so old, I was working at the office when i posted it. Ive had some time on my hands since and have  done a bit of reading. Definately square with the Battle skill now.

The Killing Moon, maybe.

2 minutes ago, svensson said:

Either that or Scotland the Brave. It's your choice really....

 

In that case, Teenage Kicks.

Is that set to the tune of Alternative Ulster? 

4 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

WTF?  Nathem the pre-gen does have Survival 30%, but not sure where that came from, as neither Hunters nor Odalya offer that as a skill.  Was this erratisized?

The base rate for Survival skill is 15%. He gets another 5% by virtue of being from Old Tarsh. He gets 0% extra from his Knowledge skills bonus, although that could benefit that way with a different build.  The other 10% must be from skill points assigned during chargen.

Its not too hard to have a serviceable Survival skill for a starting PC, but I agree that no bouns for the Hunter occupation seems like an oversight.

On 3/16/2022 at 7:11 AM, Jose said:

Are we there yet? 😁

If the pair of you can't behave back there we'll turn this thread around back to 2019 and there will be no GaGoG for anyone. 

2 hours ago, brionl said:

Moooommm! @Jose is touching me!

 

45 minutes ago, Shiningbrow said:

Nooooo..... 

I'm quite sure Satire is celebrated mic more frequently...  sometimes even daily!

Its celebrated once a year, but the celebration lasts 365 days.

3 hours ago, Orlanthatemyhamster said:

Very few people are going to worship Satire as their primary god

On these boards Satire is devoutly worshipped.

p50 "the poem to to covey the patron’s feelings". First "to" should be "is"?

P52 Skilled Entertainers table mentons the Perform Skill. RQG has no Perform skill.

On 11/24/2021 at 3:26 AM, David Scott said:

Whips are covered in the Q&A

Im happy to say whips are at least statted up in W&E. This makes the chariot driver occupation and its dangling Whip skill a bit more complete. Nice.

13 hours ago, David Scott said:

Whips are covered in the Q&A

So there is nothing further in the book? The Q&A reference is hardly lashings of text.

I hope we finally get an offical RQG write-up of whips and the "Whip" skill, as mentioned in the Occupational Skills of the Chariot Driver occupation in the corebook.

The Spider Gods Bride has  rules for the various nationalities. The free guides might be useful too, but wont make-or-break it.

2 hours ago, Leew said:

An awful truth here. Never read much into Xoth, how is it? 

The setting is very much like the Hyborian Age, with fewer anachronisms, and more sand. 

Its been tied to various rulesets over the last 12 years or so (d20, Legend, Pathdinder 1e, D&D 5e, and others) so there are releases in all them, and some in multiple systems; The Spider God's Bride is in both d20 and Legend, for example. For d100, Mongoose Legend has at least 3 titles.

https://xoth.net/publishing/index.htm  has free players guides to download.

On 9/16/2021 at 9:28 PM, svensson said:

Also take a look at the World of Xoth, written by Morten Braten.

It's an excellent take on Sword and Sorcery genre written for Legend and translates well to Mythras.

Here's a link to the first book, 'The Spider God's Bride', that's piracy-free.

https://xoth.net/publishing/xp1/

I know Morten had talks with Chaosium about the possibilty of bringing the World of Xoth to the RQ ruleset. Alas, it was not to be, which is a great pity. But S&S is full of great pities.

On 9/18/2021 at 6:44 PM, Newt said:

On the Swords and Sorcery front I used to publish The Savage North for OpenQuest. 

 

Very keen to see a new edition of this.

And curious to know more about Xyserdon. Anything to share?

Is it this? 

https://www.quotev.com/quiz/12386274/What-Gloranthan-Cult-should-you-join

I got Irippi Ontor too. 

Definitely an  interesting read. I will make sure to catch each issue. Well done!

15 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

I've had feedback that my online character creation spreadsheet is particularly helpful

 

You are too modest, Mr. Hibbs. My group might never have got past character creation without those sheets.  Now we use them as the default for creating and maintaining Adventurers, only adding an additional tally sheet for skill improvements from each adventure and season. Its now just a long and fiddly  process, rather than a very long and very fiddly process. Cant quite get get values for Spirit Combat Damage though.

And now I have "Its Raining Men" stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.

2 hours ago, Pnick said:

Posted elsewhere:

'What is it with the new RQG and the obsession with female breasts. I thought the hobby had grown up. Funny to see that it actually has in contemporary D&D, but in the game that is hailed as more sophisticated every other picture of the female form is now topless.'

That, Comarade, is a bourgeois indulgence that serves only to distract the proletariat from the truth; agrarian rent capitalism is baked into the RQG rules. "Nobles live by the work of others." And yet not a word in the mainstream media...

You dont need an Orlanthi to know which way the wind blows. 

(Apologies to Jose Maria Sison and Bob Dylan)

This is the question that shouldn't be asked ... 

The idea of forbidden knowledge is more of a Call of Cthulhu thing. On the Runequest forum you can ask anything you like, but be prepared for "It'll be out when its ready", or "YGMV", or "MGF".