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This is your intent(Ideal) in writing, everything else is your ideas for the how to write. I once had a conversation with Charles Green (Dragon Lines and The Celestial Empire) on writing fiction in which he said to me "That many Game (RPG) Creators struggle with writing stories. Later in a writing class there was a Scientist (Eric) who was trying to write Science Fiction. His story was Boring. There was nothing wrong with his theme or content. So why boring? I came to realize that the difference between Game Writers (and Scientists) an Creative Writers was that the style of writing is what I have come to call Detail writing and writers/Authors is that they are primarily Flow writers. Game Creators/Scientists is their books are detail driven, but stories are Character driven. I would recomend that you post first your House rules, then your story. However, write your story before you post your rules so that you have consistency. This a beginning not the end result. Be open to constructive criticism and you will be much surprised how well your writing can improve. (Not all criticism is constructive, so use discernment when reading criticism. Keep your Intent/Ideal as your primary guide. And you will never be dissatisfied. Good luck, and I will keep up with your post. I will be in terested in seeing how this turns out.

Don't know if it would interest you, but Steve Perrin who helped develop Runequest also created a game during the time that RuneQuest was out of print called "Steve Perrin's Quest Rules." Also called 'SPQR'. He was not with Chaosium then. I paid for the rules before they were printed but he asked those who did pay later to send him a copy of the receipt so he could send a copy. (I think he said his computer crashed or something) I had switched computers or internet providers and had lost my receipt. If he is still around you might see if they are still available.

Parricide is an interesting word and fits very nicely. In the late 1970's or early 1980's I read an article how the Dutch had discovered a type of anger was inherited through a certain family. Sometime after that there was an article about a lamb being created in a cloning experiment (Dolly, a sheep cloned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly . Taking the concept of iniquity (non-equas) and applying it to the science of Genetics I was able to postulate that thought patterns could be imprinted on genes and inherited through generations. Now in genetics there has been theories about changing various aspects of the human body. ex: eye color, hair color, taller, longer lived, thinner, all supposedly connected with genes. So what would happen if you changed a gene that had a thought pattern of loving family? Or erased it from the gene? Then Parricide becomes possible. One thing I have learned about writing Science Fiction is it is mostly a concept of ‘What If’. If you get behind Science you are playing catch-up, but if you want to write Science Fiction you have to get in front of Science because to write a story about factual Science, it is just fiction, a story. In regards to the litter question, information that would have come out in the novel would have been there were three types of gene manipulation. The Neo-species, Human gene manipulation and Hybrid. (Human/animal or also known as the Things) In the case of Sanja and her siblings they would have been gene manipulated in a lab, and grown in an incubator to an age of where they were capable of living/breathing on their own as would a normal human child. In the case of the Neo-species the genes that would have been manipulated would have been the Pineal Gland, hippocampus, pituitary gland and the hypothalamus. The concept of the Things comes from Edgar Cayce’s ‘The Origin and Destiny of Man’ (Thought Forms) and Thomas Burnett Swannn’s ‘Day of the Minotaur and ‘The Weirwoods’, etc. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/252273.Thomas_Burnett_Swann . Thank you for the questions.

The religious aspect might have profited from a little more attention. Although I have read Sci/Fi books where religion is a supporting subject matter and enjoyed them, the writing group I belonged to was a mix of writers with only three other Science Fiction and Fantasy writers. This short story was actually a prequel to a novel I started, but never finished. I later used the premise of the novel for a Worlds of Wonder, Future World Campaign I ran for 26 sessions. final volumes of Schlock Mercenary), closer to ILM's creations for Crichton's opus. Not familiar, but sounds like something I would like to read.😁 The defectives are a bit of a mystery - are they the first generation of their specific experiment? The Defectives come from the concept of the word iniquity: From Latin iniquitatem (nominative iniquitas) "unequalness, unevenness," figuratively "unfavorableness, unfairness, injustice," noun of quality from iniquus "unjust, unequal; slanting, steep," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + aequus "just, equal" (see equal (adj.)). (Non-Aequus.) Not-equalness. In the bible it says the iniquity of the fathers will be visited unto the children unto the third and fourth generation. I consider iniquity to be an attitude, not an actuality. Could an attitude be imprinted on genes? So the question became what happens to the fourth or fifth generation? But all that would have came out in the novel. But for the scope of a very short novella, enough ideas about the background crammed in. Interesting that you gave up on the cetaceans... I choose animals I was familiar with.🙂 Also, the society (or at least the protagonist) felt a bit like the Confederates. Not sure on that one. The society I choose was Atlan or Atlantis and takes place over 12,000 years prior to the novel I planned on writing. For that I choose the Edgar Cayce book (and other similar books) “Origins and Destiny of Man”, with some embellishments. As well as human animal hybrids from the same sources. And included the concept of the priest of the ‘Law of One’. The only thing I skipped as far as I know would have been Emag(s). That is also something that would have been brought out in the novel. Originally based on Rene’ Descartes ‘Theory of Gravity’. Thank you for your comments. Very constructive for me.

Might Try Waynes World. https://www.waynesbooks.net/ They have a list of books and games with brief synopsis of various games.

I loaded it in BRP Blogs:

Actually, I have followed the progress of Genetics over the years and the possibility that we might genetically modify animals to a level of equal intelligence to me has become more of a possibility than our encountering Aliens. At least in the near future. I first ran across the concept from a book by A.E. Van Gogt called 'The Battle of Forever', then Niall Shapiro's "Other Suns", and finally David Brin's Uplift series. Along with other sources and information my perception of the concept is that it could be very real. Not to disparage your opinion of it, but for the possability of opening the concept up to other players to have adventures in is why I bring this up. Eventually I wrote a story about genetics involving various animals called 'Neo-Species'. (Neo is a Greek word meaning new.) A short story called 'Genetic Defects'. If anyone is interested in the story they can let me know and I will see if I can post it somewhere appropriate in the Forums.

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Unfortunately as an old school gamer, I am older (Not gonna say I am old, but you know how it is.) With the Covid19 restraints, etc. and being older(quit driving) I have not played until recently. Starting last month I went from 0 games to 3 different games each month. 1 on Facetime, my granddaughter's, and 2 on Discord with previous game masters. So I am still learning the medium in which to play. I have not run or played in 'Worlds Beyond' and only briefly played any SF games, just mostly fantasy. I have run Runequest Classic, but the books were available and I bought each player who regularly attended a copy. Non regular players had to acquire their own. My son for his daughters game did the same. Played one game and it was pleasant. Unfortunately for me it was not a BRP game. I have however run ‘Future World’ from ‘Worlds of Wonder’. Which to me is kind of like the starter games that have been coming out, including the new Runequest with a short adventure. Because it was such a basic game of the BRP System it was easy for me to add complexity as the game went on. I pulled in various things, concepts, items, races, and action, etc. from other games like ‘Worlds Beyond’, ‘Other Suns’, Ringworld, BGB, even 'Morrow Project'., adapting them to my game without much effort. I ran the game for 26 sessions and the players all said they enjoyed it. If the ‘Worlds Beyond ‘ Game comes with such a starter set, I would tempted to run a short adventure or even a longer campaign. Thank you for the suggestion, I will wait and see how the game develops and how it is presented. The Mediums on which I have considered Playing and as Game Master are: Fantasy Grounds Roll20 'Zoom' 'Discord' Facetime

I have a copy, but have never had the opportunity to play. Glad to hear it is being reprinted. Hopefully it will show up in a local game shop and others will become interested or in an on line store.

To get a Rune spell you are required to sacrifice a point of permanent Power. (RQ II) Haven't had the opportunity to play RQG so don't know if that is continued, If not I would probably continue it. But I am also reminded of a joke/story that went around about a flood where a pastor lived. He had to climb on top of his house to escape the flood waters. So he prayed for a miracle for God to save him. So a boat comes by and the man in the boat calls out to him to get in the boat. He replied that No, that he had called upon God for a miracle and he believed that God would do so. So the boat left. Later a helicopter came by, people called upon him climb a rope that they cast down to him. Again he replied, that he believed that God would send a miracle to save him. The helicopter left. Later the flood waters rose and he drowned. He comes before God and asks God why he did not send a miracle to save him. God replies, "I did. I sent a boat and a helicopter, and you refused them." I like to have my players ask out loud (the prayer) what and how the characters ask for spell/miracle. Then decide how the God answers.

I also have my copy in my garage. Never got to play it though. But am planning on buying the new book(s) when they come out. Will depend if I am still around, so I hope they don't take to long. 👴 WooHoo!

I think the key word would be damage bonus. In RQ2 a damage bonus came from a Characters Strength and Size added together and that determined a Damage Bonus. 1D4, 1D6, 1D8, 1D10, 1D12, 1D20, 3D6, etc. It might be regarded as 'The Force of The Blow/Strike', which is separate from the weapon damage (Lance 1D10). In melee a character's Damage Bonus plus weapon damage determines how much damage is meted out. In this particular case the rider is not lunging with the weapon, but either couching it or bracing it against his body and he has no force in the blow. The mount on the other hand is charging (but not hitting with it's body, or doing damage with it's own body) and it's Damage Bonus/Force of the blow would be added to the weapon damage against the opponent. I have not found it in the rulebook for 'Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha'. So if someone knows where it is at or there is a different interpretation in the Books, please let me know. Thanks

I created some magic item cards (crystals, weapons, etc.) for my game but I think I tried to get too fancy and quickly burned myself out. Players really liked them. I liked them because I had them place them on or above the character sheet where I could see them and more readily adapt the game to the PC's. In a melee combat situation you would see what your opponnet was using and adapt to the weapon or Rune (Magic Rune Symbol, Spell Title and Description so we were not always having to look up information).

I agree. I ran a campaign about three years ago (24 sessions)and my players enjoyed it. Just enough information to set up my own universe with most of the game mechanics already there, devices and equipment to give me options and several races to give me ideas for existing races to flesh out the game. I found it easy to run and was able to concentrate on game play instead of worrying about the rules. Perhaps something along the lines of the Runequest Quickstart.

Gamestorm this month in Portland, Oregon was cancelled.

In White Dwarf Magazine, They had a Special Section Called "RuneRites". One issue had an article called "Lords of the Spirit World" by Dave Morris. (issue #27) Another a three part series about Demons and other Supernatural beings. Called "Dealing With Demons" (Issue #'s 44, 45, and 46) also by Dave Morris. I use these is a home brew world (Sandbox) that I have created. I also created what I term as Avatars, a type Demi-God that I did a write up on if you are interested. I have attached a PDF of Avatars. Avatars 2-26-2014.wps 4 (2).doc

Other Suns (if you can find a copy) has 'H'Reli' a bipedal felinoid species and the 'Sanchenzii', vagually resembling Lions. Also 6 Charts describing various animals and how to figure out their stats. The authors name is Niall Shapero.

Thank you for creating and supporting the The Games that I have to come love and play since 1982. May you continue to create and flourish in whatever after life awaits us all.

Good point about the anti-gravity. Science in the 1920's in many ways contradicts much of what we know now. Even today we still have conflicting theories of Gravity. Dark Matter vs. MOND vs. (Tesla) Dynamic Theory of Gravity vs. Ether (Rene Descartes: The World and Other Writings). Of the 4 of them only Descartes theory was available prior to 1930.

Being from an older generation, my reading habits were more concerned with writers like Edgar rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline, Lin Carter, H. Beam Piper, Gardner Fox, Ray Cummings, ETC. All of whom were contemporaries of each other ib the early 1900's. As such they tended to use a lot of the same ideas for alien and creatures similiar to what we have on earth. Insects were quite common, because they are the least understood of earth life. However there are two Alien species that I use for my Universe. A Race of Dinosaurs who matured and developed a civilization millions of years prior to our own rise. They went into space and due to wars with other aliens lost the location of Earth. They are a deadly enemy of humans and consider humans thieves. And Food. Going to the Ancient past for Aliens might be a good alternative. The other Alien Species came from a species I developed years ago from a play-by-mail game called 'Starmaster' By Schubel & Son. There was little booklet that gave you various stat lists. I called them Garravachi. Not Necessarily a good name, yet a good premise for creating aliens. Vaguely Feline, they had Poison fangs and a poison tail. And a individualistic social order whereby females not only birthed young, but supervised the young until adulthood in creating nessecities for their civilization. Including Spaceships, Warships, etc. The adult males competed with each other for female privileges and were considered soldiers/cannon fodder.

So, how did the original scenario end out?

You might try here a compadre sight to this one: http://www.glorantha.com/docs/prosopaedia/

Sorry no. Had seen the title, so looked it up. Did down load the Quick start rules. My interests in Genetics was sparked back in the 1980's when a group of Dutch Psychologists/Scientists did a study on a family in which anger was inherited. Over the intervening years I have continued to find more interesting information on thought patterns inherited on genes. I like to ask questions and think outside the box. 😀

As aliens I can agree, yet with all the scientific work being done on genetics I could see animals (dogs, cats, monkeys, etc.) being raised to a companion, comparable species to humans. Possibly even androids, robots or synthetic bionoids could be considered as currently science can be thought as limitless. I mean they are talking (if not already have done) of growing synthetic meat for food.