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I own a print copy of The Magic Book and my advice is: avoid that book like the plague. They had decided to take away RQ Strike Ranks from it in order to make it compatible with the vanilla option of the BRP gold book. However they did it by simply searching Strike Rank in the text and substitute it with DEX rank, ignoring the fact that the two systems work in reverse fashion. Genius! You can imagine the results. Those days were the lowest point ever for Chaosium and it's great to see that nowadays this beloved brand is back where it deserves. Really, grognards like to complain but we are living the golden days right now!

APP went back to be CHArisma again And Charisma roll became Charm roll. Damage bonus became Damage Modifier. Passions have been added as an option. So far is all I have noticed...

Opposed rolls are absolutely terrible. If I get to run it I'm going to houserule this bit.

Got this as well! It's good.

Tonight I picked up Magic World again. Reading the sorcery section: Am I correct that the summon demon spell description provides 2 incompatible rules to determine the free INT cost of bound demons? Also, RAW the description of summon spirit implies that the one use binding of spirits costs 1 permanent POW and that the permanent binding costs the same? Do both summon elemental and summon spirit cost just 1 MP?

I hope it's based on the corrected PDF. Actually, I don't see why it shouldn't.

I don't remember. But you got me in the mood of re-reading Corum.

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I love that the late Steve Perrin is credited alongside Jason. The original BRP system is really his great legacy to the RPG community.

The original BRP version of Classic Fantasy had a magic system based on BRP Maagic. But then Classic Fantasy migrated to Mythras.

Yes, I also think it's an update of the existing BGB not a rewrite/ redesign. So, I don't think it will take the CoC7 / Rivers of London route. It might incorporate material from RQG and/ or the upcoming Lords of the Middle Sea. But my guess is that it will be mostly based on the BGB. And yes I bet the Resistance Table will be still there.

I was looking at Dragonbane the other day and thinking that MW with the same level of art, layout and a similarly more developed mini-setting with scenarios would sell nicely, especially now that people look for alternatives to D&D5. Apart a few system tricks from Fria Ligan games the two games are not THAT different. Of course, with horrendous layout, glaring typos, haphazard art and no scenarios exemplifying what to do with the game MW was an impossible proposition.

Announced just now on Chaosium's Facebook account. Pretty excited about this.

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I haven't read the whole of the Dragonbane pdfs but so far I like what I am seeing. The BRP heritage is still pretty evident. You can still see it came out of an adaptation of the original Magic World. It also makes me think what the later Elric! based Magic World could have been with consistent color artwork and a more developed mini-setting with scenarios. Of course there are also Fria Ligan's mechanical innovations. The one I'm particularly fond of is monster attacks. Encumbrance rules are also elegant. The D&D5 like bits are nothing to write home about and the pushing rolls and initiative mechanics leave me on the fence.

The font reminds me of Lords of the Middle Sea. But the messaging does not seem to be setting specific. Are they launching it as the 1st of a series of "gateway" BRP games? Anyway roll 01 says it's a d100/ BRP game.

Given the language used in the teasers it really looks like a setting agnostic BRP book. A new edition of the BRP corebook in the works is my best guess...possibly adopting a different approach than the BGB, something closer to an update of Worlds of Wonder with mini-settings... Or they are updating the BRP SRD and putting most of the BGB content in it...

I hope not. I really hope that they will be interspersed with the other releases. It would make sense to have Sartar come out after the Lightbringers and the Earth Goddesses are out. And I really look forward to Sartar with that huge beautiful map! I should probably switch to Sartar my game by then... (At the moment I'm playing in Sun County and my players are a bunch of Solar (Yelmalio, Yelorna) and Lunar (Seven Mothers) cultists - so no luck with the cult books for them...).

I much prefer the series format than the original twin set of huge books in a slipcase format. Much more user friendly at the gaming table and for people who are not GMs. And it gives us a nice stream of RQ releases to wait for.

It's the RQ Cults Books - which is great but not totally out of the blue.

@MOB or another moderator... Given that there is no Pathfinder Glorantha coming, the hread is becoming a bit superfluous and drifting OT viz the Glorantha forum. You might want to close it or better move it out of here to the Tavern area.

Really? In my experience Pathfinder 1 was hard to GM because of the crazy complexity of monsters and NPCs and the number of spells and abilities and special rules you had to look up. On the other hand GMing D&D4 was a breeze because everything was right in the monster NPC description. I gather Pathfinder 2 is more like D&D4. Gamemastering RQ Glorantha is fun to me and not that difficult. Sometimes you need to make up rulings on the spot and some combat situations could be messy to adjudicate, but being familiar there is usually one or typically more sensible ways to adjudicate.

Wow! Impressive. That's sounds like a lot of work to me. And while I am confident in house-ruling BRP games, my I am super wary with (post D&D3) d20 games because they are "exception based" and tightly interconnected.

Could well be the RQ Computer game, but I rather prefer it to be Stormbringer or BRP.

Thanks a lot for clearing that out, MOB. Now, I'm even more curious of the big announcement! 😅 Yes, I know of 13th Age in Glorantha and it looks cool. I will surely try it sooner or later - now I'm too busy with RQG, though.