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    Playing RQ online

    in Alastor's Skull Inn

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    25 minutes ago, Geoff R Evil said:

    Hi. Anyone got any tips on what tools are best or good to use to support an online game, I.e. alongside a video call, for example dice rollers, etc?

     

    Agreed, I am using Skype with Google Docs for visuals. Very low tech. It works. Have used Roll20 and if you intend to replay a game it is worth the work to fill the journals with goodness.

    Movement and attacking

    in RuneQuest

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    1 hour ago, Barak Shathur said:

    RQIV:AiG figured this out and separated movement and other actions entirely. There was a move phase, and a 'melee phase', where magic, missile and melee happened in SR order, and the one did not impact the other except in that if you moved more than your basic move stat (usually 4-6 m) you didn't get to do anything else apart from moving.'

    But they canned this one.

    In my opinion, RQ3 handled SRs the best. It was not perfect nor did it mesh well with RQ2 but it held together long enough to hide the cracks and offer good strategies. (@Klosteris a huge fan of RQ 3) So, the Chaosium crew went with RQG to keep compatibility with RQ2. Lords and ladies, we, all know it aint perfect. It took some of the old ones from the 90s and the Noughties several screens worth of posts to sort, pre-pandemic... (2019?) and I think @Paid a bod yn dwpcollated a chart for it. But until a rewrite, what do we do... a heavy errata. It almost works now. Some folks have given us some great clues above.

    Hey Paid, still got that chart for SRs and combat?

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    OGL's effect on RQ sales

    in RuneQuest

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    54 minutes ago, Mark Mohrfield said:

    Given the general response to Wizards of the Coast's new OGL, is possible that RQ could regain its ancient status as the second most popular frpg? First place being too much to hope for, IMO.

    Edit: I should have mentioned that I include Pathfinder being part of D&D.

    It's possible, the spider knows!

    99c for the next 9 days – Basic Roleplaying's 'Big Gold Book'

    in Basic Roleplaying

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    44 minutes ago, PhilHibbs said:

    Dates in the editions page. The smaller file has © 2022 in it.

    Shoulda known you would get to it, thanks Phil! I guess I do not have the update.

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    2 hours ago, RSDean said:

    Code 2020 is the original file; 2026 is the update.  I bought mine from DriveThru years ago, so when I go to the link in the first post, I’m offered the opportunity to download either or both versions.

    Thanks, then I have the update, or do I?

     Now, I am confused...

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    Hey, @Dustin O'Chaosium... Have any insight to this riddle, Do I have the update, or no?

     

    Still, great book, absolutely great. Of all the BR/p family books from all the decades I own this and the original free 8 (?) pager from the boxed RQ set are becoming my faves!

    Are there any male nature spirits in Glorantha ?

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    5 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

    So one wonders whether satyrs can — atypically — roam freely. Presumably, they don’t go “pop!” when you kick them out of their specified grove. Bounce off an invisible barrier? I don’t know.

     

    Maybe they are like mobile GlowSpots... they take the grove with them (around them I guess).

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    Site Introductions

    in Alastor's Skull Inn

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    9 hours ago, Geoff R Evil said:

    Hello fellow players.

     

    Welcome! A gamer going back to the 80s ya say... ya won't find many on those around here... what are they called... gognerds or somethin'? We all pretty young around here and just getting into tha hobby...

    Alright, I will stop there before there is even a chance for you to start believing my drivel. Been war gaming since 60s and RPGing since the 80s!

     

    9 hours ago, Geoff R Evil said:

    Yep played loads of DND too.  I have GM'ed and been a player many times, and have more books on Runequest and DND than are probably financially healthy.

     

    Yes you will probably be able to find a few of that ilk around here (I think I have every game from RQ2 and 3 in hardcopy, though some are barely hanging together and some just gave up)!

    Quit playing DnD back in the early 80s so only a few books (PHB and... hm, there must be something else...)

     

    9 hours ago, Geoff R Evil said:

    Looking to play face to face but know a regular group might be hard so happy to consider online groups.

     

    Nothing at this second but I will have something online and compatible with afternoons/evenings in your neck of the timezones before spring.

    Shall I let you know about it.

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    Are there any male nature spirits in Glorantha ?

    in Glorantha

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    3 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

    Book of Heortling Mythology is your best source, but she’s in King of Sartar as well.

    1 minute ago, jajagappa said:

    Also called Velhara (or Tara).  As noted, Book of Heortling Mythology p.37 and 44 particularly (also p.47, 166).  KoS p.88-89.  And the Guide p.677 and 710.

    Cheers!

     

    Are there any male nature spirits in Glorantha ?

    in Glorantha

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    12 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said:

    Wilderness Goddess of Dragon Pass (where she is known as Velhara) and Balazar, at the very least. Sometimes identified with Orogeria, although this always strikes me as a bit odd.

    Mother of Odayla and Ormalaya (Orlanth the Hunter), although myths seem to sometimes differ.

    It stands to reason that she’s in some way associated with Ladies of the Wild (Bestiary).

     I should have been clearer, where do I find this.

    Are there any male nature spirits in Glorantha ?

    in Glorantha

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    5 hours ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

    I continue to suggest "Nature" is the wrong way to understand Gloranthan deities. Many of the deities described herein are Plant ones, not "Nature".

     

    Ya know, I can not think of an analog to mother nature in Glorantha. That seems to be a European thing. Someone implied (ah here it is, Ormi Phengaria implied) the spider as mother nature but I have a hard time wrapping me head around that. So I got to go with Qizilbashwoman on this.

    Are Gloranthan Counting Systems Decimal?

    in Glorantha

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    1 hour ago, Nick Brooke said:

    In my Glorantha, Lunar mathematicians have come up the innovative numeral "zero," much as Arab mathematicians did. Its use transforms arithmetic, except that fuddy-duddy bearded Lhankor Mhy types think it's somehow "tainted by the void of chaos" and insist on keeping their craptastic traditional numbering systems: more fool them.

    Not sure about your attributing the zero to the arabs, same part of the world... Mesopotamia though they did not use zero as we do... I believe it was an Indian who brought the zero up to date... lets see...

    yep found this:
    https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-zero

    It might seem like an obvious piece of any numerical system, but the zero is a surprisingly recent development in human history. In fact, this ubiquitous symbol for “nothing” didn’t even find its way to Europe until as late as the 12th century. Zero’s origins most likely date back to the “fertile crescent” of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerian scribes used spaces to denote absences in number columns as early as 4,000 years ago, but the first recorded use of a zero-like symbol dates to sometime around the third century B.C. in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians employed a number system based around values of 60, and they developed a specific sign—two small wedges—to differentiate between magnitudes in the same way that modern decimal-based systems use zeros to distinguish between tenths, hundreds and thousandths. A similar type of symbol cropped up independently in the Americas sometime around 350 A.D., when the Mayans began using a zero marker in their calendars.

    These early counting systems only saw the zero as a placeholder—not a number with its own unique value or properties. A full grasp of zero’s importance would not arrive until the seventh century A.D. in India. There, the mathematician Brahmagupta and others used small dots under numbers to show a zero placeholder, but they also viewed the zero as having a null value, called “sunya.” Brahmagupta was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero. From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle East, where it was taken up by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi around 773. It was al-Khowarizmi who first synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how the zero could function in algebraic equations, and by the ninth century the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.

     

    The zero continued to migrate for another few centuries before finally reaching Europe sometime around the 1100s. Thinkers like the Italian mathematician Fibonacci helped introduce zero to the mainstream, and it later figured prominently in the work of Rene Descartes along with Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz’s invention of calculus. Since then, the concept of “nothing” has continued to play a role in the development of everything from physics and economics to engineering and computing.

     
     
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    Are Gloranthan Counting Systems Decimal?

    in Glorantha

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    2 minutes ago, soltakss said:

    Lunars, however, might use Base 7 for ritual counting. In My Glorantha, 7 soldiers make a Squad, 7 Squads make a Company (49), 7 Companies make a Cohort, and 7 Cohorts make a Legion (2,401).

    This sounds quite likely for the Orlanthi as well... Seven day weeks (before moonrise), 7 lightbringers... My games Issaries contracts divide shares into 7ths...

     

    Swim movement rate ?

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    Sorry Scotty and Agent Orange, but here comes a bit of a thread drift...
    but see, the shark is swimming... through the air... but swimming... honestly! Not sure of the movement rate but...

     

    5 hours ago, soltakss said:

    @Agentorange and @Bill the barbarian I'd love to use these ideas in Holiday Dorastor: Foulvale, am I OK to use them, while crediting you and sending you a free copy?

    I would be foolish to turn down a free copy of a Simon Phipp's joint, but I have to say I had nothing to do with the idea... 

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    You could send a free copy to the asylum.
    Ah, screw it.. send me the copy!

    Swim movement rate ?

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    11 hours ago, soltakss said:

    Holiday Dorastor has tentacled sharks, in case normal sharks aren't dangerous enough.

    I couldn't work out a way to get sharks with laserguns on their heads, though

     

    Any Sharknados?

    Negative passion during character creation

    in RuneQuest

    Posted · Edited by Bill the barbarian

    37 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said:

    Almost always, you should be able to just erase any passion that goes below 50% - it no longer really does anything. But keeping it for flavor purposes is fine, too.

    Honor might be an exception, as if you want to raise it in the future, you might have to dig yourself out of a bad score first.

    That is how I thought, and would have played until @Shiningbrowand @hipsterinspacein space piped up with their comments. I will go with their well reasoned posts. 

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