Bill the barbarian

Well it's Canada Day up Canada Way as Stomping Tom Conners use to sing. A truly Canadian national treasure if we ever had one. And against Canada Day's growing dark skies the city has splashed a rainbow of colours accentuated by the bangs hisses and sizzles of... fireworks. Accompanied by the acrid smells of..? black powder, cordite? Most definitely my favourite use of gun powder on the Blue Marble. And everyone loves that merrye olde wizard, Gandalf! When one thinks fireworks, often ones mind turns to Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday. But, of course, we are not on the blue marble or in the delightful farms and glens of the shire in middle earth, but luckily we are on our favourite place with the middle world—the green lozenge. So, that leads me to my topic, actually questions. What are fireworks like on the lozenge. I think the Mostal have black powder We know they have muskets, flintlock pistols and cannon. (Yes Shiningbrow... sigh... this is canonnical). But Marvellous fireworks that cause children such wonder some have been known to fall over backwards while watching them soar overhead (why are you looking at me, it wasn't me, honest). So, can we look forward to fireworks on liberation day in Boldhome each year? Are fireworks Mostali, only, if they exist? Can one buy fireworks otherwise, or make fireworks and avcid gobblers and nilmergs (where is that Eurmali spell book, I must have misplaced it in my other cloak)? Cheers

There such here abouts, why thank ye for the warning good and kindly stranger. ETA Jonstown Compendium, eh?

Cheers hard to leave a page and return sooo....

20 odd pages and still going....!

Yes, M Henderson's (spelling?) wonderful thread Swords of Genertela.

and so modest...,Where is that Eurmali spell book anyways?

That's pretty cool, thanks of sharing.

Ain't he good?

Weeell shonnny, i think it was Shaturday... <wheeze> just about tea time... 1922 if I recall, though I can't recall if I took my meds or not?l.

Personal opinon here (aren't most"). That is the best reason to have these debates. When making home rules listening to the wisdoms of styopa, Jeff, mankcam Kloster, or Joerg (though it could be any who posted here) can clarify the situation and problems you are addressing and make them shine when you put pen to paper to .put your own spin on them before taking them to the table. Thanx all!

I realize I will sound a little naive and probably wrong and as all polly-anniish as it sounds that is how I feel. I hope it's true, it does seem that Chaosium has always been a little bit different in working and playing nicely in the schoolyard of RPG gaming.

Sounds about right, put a good warrior in a position of having to fight with only one weapon of a set, one would hope they might be able to parry and attack with it with some competency. Possibly catching the opponent off guard by the rapidity of being ready, even if less deadly than if he or she had more time to break out the real and obviously military grade weapons. This possibly might be enhanced by having a perfectly good secondary weapon that one is qualified in near at hand (but not in hand:) while the better weapon and more feared is harder to get to. To explain a bit further, I am thinking a lightly armoured warrior with but an axe carrying what is only obviously a weapon but one that is being used for a much more peaceful means is much less threatienig (not non threatening, just less threatening) than one with and axe and a shield near at hand (again not in hand) (for that matter a spear and a shield) , and not obviously encumbered, might be.

This does cause Joerg's argument a problem. and is a slight problem I have with RQ G: the re-introductin of break points. I did not even know the expression (at least as relates to RQ ) until RQ G. When GMing RQ 2 pre-internet this was not something I thought of often and with RQ 3 ameliorating the situation I rarely thought about it at all other than as another great RQ feature.

as is releasing a violent and volatile wind of any kind (imagination required here, or on second thought maybe it would be better to not) into the world.

I fail to see what you might be implying my good sir, now can we return to the topic at hand... GREAT PIC, wouldn't you say?

That's true.

@Trifletraxor feel free to remove this post it you wish...

Yes, well, not strictly speaking. Apologies for not being clearer. As I have never played HQ it might be a bit presumptuous of me to offer HQ as a solution, No, I was asking your opinion to that question, "Can HQ handle behemoths (not just giant monsters, and I have never felt that any of the monsters mentioned above are just giant monsters, they are too buried in our psyche for that, The sperm whale, giant gorilla, dinosaur and giant squid exist beyond our mundane world and invade our dreams) better than the modern RQ G with its flaws listed in the past day's or so, posts?". Yes, I was thinking more mundane than the fight being part of an actual Hero Quest (though odds are at that level I will bet you aren't in Kansas anymore.), Hero Quest opposed combat rules, per se. So would Battle skill (RQ G) do this adequately rather than turning to HQ for a better way I have seen this done by the more advanced GMs in Edmonton. The best was the GM who ran an entire game lying back on an ottoman never opening his eyes. He told us to either roll, or imagine a character we wanted to play from our fave game, and then ran an adventurer for us adjudicating the conflicts in a like manner to which you describe Greg using and letting us either adjudicate our results or roll on our characters by the method of our game of choice. It was great! I played a Kzinti with all advantages and flaws (oh, and they are deeply flawed).

true, dat! Your point?

talent over training...? Or talent extending training... Interesting

bad g33k, bad, go to your dungeon, right now! :(

I don''t know why Joerg, but 2 behemoths fighting has made me think of opposed contests and HQ. That fights between Kong and a dinosaur or a giant squid and a sperm whale may be beyond the scope of RQ rules (infidel, unbeliever, how dare you malign the noble RQ :) could HQ handle them better? We are getting built-in HQ rules soon, so... I have no problems imagining such fights to enter into heroic realms beyond the scope of mundane rune questing rules. Maybe HQ is the answer for those who must battle monster vs monster ( I want to be the HULK™!).

Now, that does make a difference, warrior (if I have guessed the correct translation of your name). When I think of the tens of tousands of dollars sitting in a shelf of programs that won't run or I would need to buy an expensive collectors Item computer to run...

Yes, that made me think of Prince of Sartar and the way what I thought was fluff (wrong word, but) was actually the important part of the picture.

I am not sure that I want to buy it again. My disk is in perfect shape.