Cloudlord

Arrived yesterday:

Oh well now I remember one thing: While reading the rules (haven't read them completely yet, and not page by page...so I might be missing a point here) and examining them for certain character possibilities (trying to figure out how to do a Witch the best way (mind that I have a copy of 'Basic Witchcraft') because my wife loves them and certainly would like to play one again), I stumbled across the 'Familiar' spells and wasn't sure about how they might work. First if the Character learns that spell - does he learn each variation spell for the characteristics at the same time and just records and develops the different versions or does he need to learn each (characteristic)version seperately (like STR from this teacher but CON from another one if he doesn't have it available, too) and treat them as entirely different spells? When using these spells to complete a uncomplete creature to turn it into a familiar the spell caster transfers his own characteristic points permanently into the familiar thus becomming ever smaller, more stupid, weaker and less agile? Can that be correct? As I remember it from Stormbringer this was the case for POW but POW could be regained fairly easy back then. How can I get characteristic points back these days? How can I get something like SIZ back? It seems like it's awfully difficult to create a familiar and the benefits fall way back behind the disadvantages... There are still other issues I have with magic but they may arise from not having read the entire rules yet so I will do so first before asking more questions.

Tahnk you for the links, Hkokko. And thank you all again for the advice. I'll give it a shot with the rules as they are written. Maybe it's all fine then. Yet while reading them I had an issue or two I would like to discuss here. Unfortunately I can't remember them and need to investigate first before I can bring them up. It's been something about combat and something else about magic. So if you are intrested in helping a veteran-noob, stay tuned. I'll come back with more questions soon. Anyhow things will get easier as soon as I have the hardcopy. I have never been a fan of reading electronically (what I have to do way to often, nowadays due to my job) but it's neat to have the PDF for reference and printing various excerpts to supplement play.

Changed my mind and ordered RQ6 through the website of Design Mechanism. It's even a bit cheaper than getting it from a shop in Germany - and includes the PDF. So cool! Am reading the PDF since yesterday. Thank you all again for this tip. RQ6 is really an advancement and solves mostly all the issues I have with games today. There might be but one thing I'll incorporate from Chaosiums Stormbringer - the way armor is treated with a die-roll mechanism. I always liked this very much and it's a great way to keep players from power-armoring while enhancing the worth of smaller weapons. Yet heavy armor still has it's worth but you just can't count on it like before (I always hated this "Oh he can't hurt me, he got only a dagger and I wear full plate..." RQ6 is so gereric and yet detailed that it seems I can play almost anything with it without much work of customization. That is the greatest asset compared to other games that I know. Wonderful!

Wow, thank you again for all these elaborate answers! You definitaley convinced me of getting RQ6 and I also ordered it through my local game store. I'm wondering how long it will take to get to me...it's always difficult and time consuming to order non-mainstream games from the states and usually is easiest if done through Noble Knight or similars. But shipping is a killer... Anyhow my list for BRP/RQ will be as follows - thanks to you guys. RuneQuest 6 as hardcopy together with Magic World and Advanced Sorcery RuneQuest Classic Fantasy as soon as it will be published Legend Samurai and Vikings What really caught my eye was the Age of Shadow, as indicated by some of you. It's wonderful! I will definitely pick up the Campaign Guide and the OpenQuest PDFs some time in the future. For now I'm playing with the idea of doing my own fantastic campaign/world rolling more or less all genre supplements together into one multiverse-sort-of-setting. I'm currently running a Warhammer 1sr ED campaign and might be able to tweak it so far that the group will voluntarily leave the Old World in pursuit of a mad wizard ... and then be stranded among the myriad universes of the multiverse. I have never done something like that but it currently looks like fun. There was a great adventure for Stormbringer that I might use as a base for this: Rogue Mistress.

Wow! So many and detailed answers. Didn't expect such a response and am very grateful for it. Thank you very much everybody!!! As it seems I have no choice than to go for RQ6 then. But since I am a fan of the BRP I'll try to get a copy of that, too, just for my book shelf. But what does BGB stand for? (oh...the "Big Gold Book" - just found it through google. I'm not up to date anymore!) So this will be my list of RQ/BRP acquisitions and I'm pretty sure that it will be possible to craft a nice campaign (and probably my own game world) from it: These items are already on my shelf: -RQ Deluxe Edition (AH) -RQ Dorastor: Land of Doom -RQ Shadows on the Borderlands -RQ Lords of Terror -RQ Vikings boxed set -all of Stormbringer and Elric! -Hawkmoon boxed set -all of Pendragon -all of Elf-quest -BRP Witchcraft -BRP Mythic Iceland (GenCon edition) and the following as PDF: -BRP Core Rules 2nd-4th Ed.(4th should be the BGB) -BRP Basic Magic -BRP Adventures -BRP Rome -In Search of the Trollslayer -RQ2 Vikings -RQ2 Land of the Samurai -RQ2 Monster Coliseum -Legend Core Rules -Legend Spirit Magic And as it seems I will then buy RQ6 to supplement the collection and The Book of Quests as well as Monster Island. As for Classic Fantasy I'll wait for the RQ edition then. Since I loved Stormbringer I'll get Magic World out of sheer sense of completeness. As of now I don't know about Shores of Korantia. If you like, please sell me on it... So far I can only say thank you again. I'm looking forward o bringing RQ6 to my gamin table and my gamers. Hopefully it will be well received.

Hi everybody! It might be that this question has been discussed before, in which case I humbly ask for apologies. Nonetheless I haven't been able to locate a respective thread on the forum. Due to the fact that I'm currently (for the last couple of years actually) quite limited on budget and especially time, I request the wise advice of the community. I have been playing some incarnations of BRP during my youth (all the editions of Stormbringer and Elric!, Elfquest, some Cthulhu, all of Pendragon, and Vikings) and do own them as well as some Runequest and Glorantha books from Avalon Hill, but never played them. Now I would love to return to the world of d100 and take my current gaming group on a journey through the multiverse. But I don't know actually which edition is recommendable at the moment. As I understand from various reviews on the net all editions seem to have more or less identical flaws in some places while benefits in others. But I haven't found a direct comparison nor a review that clearly recommends one edition of the others. So...is there anything anyone here could recommend for someone who is not interested in Glorantha itself but wants to play d100 in a semi-historic fantasy setting or classical fantasy (maybe even Middle-earth (yes, I know about the excellent downloadable content from BRP central!!!), Forgotten Realms or Warhammer)? What would you recommend? Go for Legend? Go for BRP? Go for RQ6? And why? I have downloaded several of the currently very cheap stuff for RQ and BRP from Drivethrough but lack the time to really work through to make a decision. In the end I'm a physical type of person and need printed books. If it's not too much to ask for I would be glad for a couple of answers. These are the books I'm currently opting for: RQ - Runequest6 +??? Legend - Legend Legend - Samurai of Legend Legend - Vikings of Legend BRP - Basic Roleplaying BRP - Basic Gamemaster BRP - Basic Creatures BRP - Classic Fantasy BRP - The Magic Book BRP - Magic World BRP - Advanced Sorcery BRP - Monster Island (+Monster Island Compendium PDF) I do already own BRP - Witchcraft Thank you very much for your support.

Thanks Charles, for the Info! I'm just paging through the text and am very impressed and pleased about the tons of ideas you have put into this document. I'm absolutely confident that this campaign will become a burner!!! Thanks very much again!!!

Not wanting to put pressure on someone willing to do so much work and sharing it with the community I was just wondering if there are any news about this file? Since I'm currently working on the preps for my new campaign that will center around the war between law and chaos for my first time it would be awesome to have this file or a copy of the monograph to supplement my efforts...