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Another "condensate" setting that I hope Chaosium could develop for RuneQuest is Safelster and the wilder parts of Ralios. You have bizarre henotheist cults, trade and city intrigue, Trolls, Mostali, Aldryami, Orlanthi with bizarre taboos, Telmori werewolves, broos from Karia (where Dorastor is just a Kartolin Pass away) and the shadow of Arkat looms large on the region. It's Glorantha in all its richness (except ducks), but still in a manageable size. The Second Age Mongoose material on Ralios was good and very sandboxy - albeit mostly staless and under-developed. I'd love to see Chaosium doing something for Third Age Ralios. I'd honestly prefer to game there than in the more iconic Dragon Pass/ Sartar or the familiar Pavis/ Prax.

Yes, players can quickly become the Big Heroes in Balazar. And the sandbox is eminently gameable. There is just Balazar where you start and then the Elder Wilds to explore. Pavis/ Prax is also an isolated backwater and sandbox in a way, but is already a much bigger world with connected but very distinct sub-settings with no obvious order of play. - New Pavis - The Big Rubble - The River of Cradles: Sun County - The River of Cradles: Borderlands / Lunar Grantlands - Prax proper, west of the River of Cradles - the Wastelands, east of the River of Cradles There are at least four starting points/ home bases: New Pavis, Sun County, Borderlands (Duke's Raus fort) and the nomad tribes themselves.

I own Liber Ka for Nephilim. How different is Enlightened Magic from Liber Ka? Is it a straight conversion from Nephilim to BRP?

Absolutely true. And my chart had them correctly stemming straight from RQ2! I'm very proud of it but I should redo the speculative future part of my chart because it is now outdated. I made it when it seemed that RQ Glorantha was going to be straight RQ6. But first I have to recover the original file of the chart... I fear it was lost in a computer crash...

"Alone against the flames" is a very good introductory scenario. It almost managed to convince me that CoC7 is basically still CoC and not an unholy abomination. I'd be delighted to see a new RQ solo!

Things mentioned about the development of RQ4: Pendragon's character generation and winter phase - the RQ Vikings campaign with the various families and steads - the Riskland campaign with the River of Frogs steads... Do I see a pattern here? Well, one reason to lean towards RQ2 I can see is that soon there will be a ton of material back in print. But I'm sure it's not the only one.

Jeff you just made my day. This is very important to me. Obviously what you say of RQ2-RQ7 ...ehr RQ4 applies also to the RQ3 stat block. The relatively important differences in the stat block viz previous editions is one of the few things I did not like of RQ6. For instance, at a given moment I wanted to use the RQ3 Dorastor book with RQ6 - it's full of beasties and each requires detailed conversion. Yes, there is the wonderful online RQ6 generator but it's not like picking up a book and just use it. You could do it between RQ2 and RQ3 and I'd be delighted to find that you can do it also with RQ7 ...erh RQ4... Obviously the magic will be different to better reflect Glorantha, but there are many things, such as the damage of weapons, the damage bonus progression, the number of hit points per location etc. that now do not have much reason to be slightly different as they were in the Mongoose RQ lineage.

I have voted more adventures and settings. What I'd love to see for Open Quest in 2016 is basically Crypts & Things d100 with sword and sorcery rules variants setting converted scenarios frm Crypts & Things Second best, almost ex aequo, a post-apocalyptic setting with adventures. Third best, well anything else really. I'm sure it will be good.

Hats off to Chaosium! 2000 backers for RQ is pretty huge. Just to have some reference points the CoC kickstarter was 3,668.

Let me know your impressions. I'm considering doing the same.

This. High dark fantasy, exoticism, melancholy, arbitrariness, and a hint of twisted fairy tale. And characters are from the waking world, not natives so that the place is new to them. I think a lot of work should be put on the dreaming powers (Dreaming skill in CoC) so that the PC can become co-creators of the world while remaining highly vulnerable to it (including the things they have created!). Indirect literary inspiration on people's dream creations could come from Mythago Wood (the first book is scary as hell!) and Moorcock's Fortress of the Pearl (btw MRQ Elric has rules for MM's Lands of Dream).

If I'm not mistaken before CoC was a thing Sandy Petersen was working at a RQ Dreamlands supplement which he tried to pitch to Chaosium. They asked him to do CoC instead. Now, should Chaosium consider developing the Dreamlands as their own thing? This is not necessarily an alternative as having them as an option for CoC adventures. I've always had the impression that RPG fans (I don't enter the discussion of purely literary appreciacion here) are divided on the Dreamlands issue. Some just dislike them or don't care about them. Those who like them are divided between those that see them as fully integrated in the CoC universe and rpg (e.g. having Dreamlands interludes in regular CoC campaigns (e.g. Spawn of Azathoth) and those who think that they are better seen as their own thing at least to some degree (e.g. as in the campaign "The Dreaming Stone". Furthermore, people disagree on the portrayal of the Dreamlands and on the kind of scenarios. Is it mostly about symbols, the subconscious, the psyche and the self? Or is it more about escapist adventures in realms beyond imagination? Compare Mark Morrison's scenario about Xura in the earlier editions of the Dreamlands supplement vs. the different portrayal of Zura in the revised supplement, which is based on Brian Lumley. So, how do you want to play in the Dreamlands? And which dreamlands?

No, we have no reason at all to think it will be like a video game. On the other hand, I guess it will be very Pendragon-like. For that there is evidence in the announcement and in the podcast.

Scary. That's definitely a CoC Dreamlands scenario.

I'd say pure Glorantha. No plane hopping. My idea is mostly having a rules light version of RQ2 that still feels old school and converts on the fly during play. Of course, Stormbringer demon rules could be used to generate lots of chaos creatures, Actually, I also want something that is readily available in Italian. Unfortunately RQ2 and RQ3 were never translated in italian. The old school flavors of d100 available in Italian are Stormbringer and original BRP Magic World. Both could work for a lighter RQ2. I slightly prefer Stormbringer MRQ2 and RQ6 are also available in Italian - great games, but they are neither old school nor rules light. OpenQuest is available in Italian and is as rules light as it gets, but not enough old school... You see the main purpose is just to tinker...

Just an idea I might try for quick old-school one shots in Pavis/ Prax or for faster RQ2 solo gaming: Stormbringer rules (1 to 4, does not matter much which) + RQ2 magic and cults = Stormbuller! A fast and brutal old school game of Gloranthan goners battling Chaos and being stabbed in Pavis' back-alleys. Books Needed: - Stormbringer 4th edition (or earlier) - RQ2 - Cult Compendium (or the original RQ2 cult books) - Pavis, Big Rubble, Borderlands etc. Monster conversions on the fly. May use MagicWorld to eyeball rolled armor of creatures. Convert spells on the fly if need be. Initiates gain Elan as per Stormbringer rules. Elementals may use more open-ended Stormbringer-ish rules. Might create characteristic bonuses for Gloranthan human cultures as in Stormbringer for YK. Use Stormbringer professions without adaptation: Priest becomes Initiate Non-humans have RQ2 characteristics.

So, actually questing for the runes. That will interesting after all those years of RQ not being that much about the runes. Actually, MRQ1 tried to do that in a way but it did not work.

I appreciate that enormously. Over the last few years Chaosium content continued to be mostly good or very good but editing-layout-art standards had gone down from the very good levels of classic Chaosium, while the rpg industry average had improved in the meantime.

Any news of this title? It made a brief appearance around GenCon. The last I heard from Rick Meints was How soon is soon enough? How worked is worked on? Is it more like getting another editing pass to catch the few remaining typos and layout glitches or more like totally rebuilding it on the foundations of the new RQ-BRP to and combining it with enlightened-not-nephilim-magic to become the definitive urban fantasy rpg of the next decade?

I think this is totally doable.

That's understandable. Licenses are a lot of additional hassle and don't guarantee commercial success (except the very expensive ones!). They probably have enough non-licensed settings in store to produce books for the next few years.

A question for Loz, Now that the fortunes of TDM and Chaosium are separated and The Game Soon to be Formerly Known as RQ6 will walk alone... WILL YOU ASK MICHAEL MOORCOCK TO DO STORMBRINGER? Will you? Please. Pretty, please? The French Mournblade game - of which MM is quite pleased - is good evidence that the man is not turned against licensing to RPGs. And that he is not asking a fortune in royalties (the French market likes Stormbringer, but I seriously doubt Sombres Projets is making huge money!) I am currently running an Elric game with the RQ6 engine and MRQ2 Elric rules. It's just the beginning but it's quite fun. MRQ2 Elric rules are pretty good. Just marred by the abysmal editing, layout and art standards of Mongoose. And they're not standalone. BTW, the French stole a lot from MRQ2 Elric for their Mournblade game! A standalone RQ6 Stormbringer book would seriously rock. Maybe a deal can be made with Sombres Projets to use their art and stuff. In return they could use some TDM materials like adventures etc. Do it! Please.

This is something I'd like to see as a book from Chaosium. Either as a CoC supplement or as a standalone BRP game.

I've always been intimidated by RQ4 AiG (I've a playtest copy). On the other hand, RQ Slayers actually looks like a fun little game of barbarian slayers in a dark primitive sword-and-sorcery world. I might actually play it. The funny thing is that it's a game that has zero connection with RQ. I wonder what Avalon Hill were thinking when developing that game. It has hit-locations. That's the one thing they kept from RQ!

C'est excellent! Surtout l'adaptation au royaume des légendes!