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1 hour ago, Atgxtg said:

UGE doesn't have Spirit Combat

psychic combat is pretty much the same, isn't it (I don't have the rules at hand) ?

I'm not sure that all the differences cited by @Atgxtg really matter. What is important is if you can use the statsblocks of RQ3 in a BRP game and I think it would be quite easy since they are almost same. The way they are used may differ but you actually don't really care if the experience rolls are different, skills capped in RQ and not BRP (just stop capping them) or even if attack and parry are separate (use only best of both). You may just add 50% of the armour/weapon APs and that's it.

(is there no strike rank option in BR:UGE ? It was in the prevous version).

Magic may be trickier but I'm not even sure.

I'm not sure you should balance the stats. Species are as they are, some are luckier than others.

For your lizard-like creatures, you may want to have a look at the RQ's dragonewts.

Is there any update on the several projects ?

I played RQ2 for decades. A great game, with the right level of complexity (to my taste of course). I started role playing with it, and never had any diificulty to understand the rules which I never found not well organized. I changed only for RQ:G (and Heroquest:G which is a different approach).

There was an undescriptible feeling in this game, a way to subtly stand back and not forget that it is just for fun. I never need for RQ3, although I bought it.

And I love the Defense %.

6 hours ago, glarkhag said:

If fighting them is not really the intention why not provide mechanics for what is intended?

Unless the intention is to leave it to the players imagination. May be the text should have explicited this (but it is an old school scenario).

You don't have to fight them, you can just crawl through them, counting on your armour or protection spell. Sword fighting is seldom the only option and very often even the worst one.

4 hours ago, Joerg said:

If the pack has 7 individuals, I would have allowed it to disperse after five to nine uses of the spell,

In the scenario, it is written that killing one rat disperses the whole pack. So using Disruption is a good solution. It is a spell widely used to hunt small preys or fight small pest.

It is just that killing rat packs with a sword is not the right way to do, like digging a tunnel with a spoon or trying to destroy a mosquitos swarm wirth a hammer. It is perfectly consistant and players shall acknowledge it and find another way.

My understanding is that it depends on the granularity you want, as explained in the Equipment chapter (note that I'm refering to the former editionof BRP). "Speciality" refers to a skill, while "weapon class" to a family of items.

If you choose a rough granularity, the default rule, then speciality = weapon class and all weapons of a single class are included in the skill, all at the same rating. Note that in old Runequest 2, which is the origin of the BRP, swords were divided into 1H and 2H -and even Shortsword was a class- which explains the difference between Great Sword 5% and 1H swords 15%.

If you choose a more acurate granularity, each speciality is a single weapon (ex shortsword) with its own base rating and specialities do not correspond exactly to weapon classes. Weapons are still gathered in weapon classes as items, not as skills, with the only advantage that using a weapon of the same class is easier (either with the method explained above by @Mugen or at 1/2 rating -GM's choice) than starting at base rating.

12 hours ago, SDLeary said:

Huh, I don't remember a critical able to ignore a parrying weapon or shield. I mean, a parrying weapon does provide protection! Guess I'll have to go back to check! 🙃

SDLeary

The particular case of a parrying weapon (and shield) is a bit different but is clearly detailed, so there is no ambiguity here.

(and the OP is about protection magic)

On 12/17/2023 at 12:12 PM, Scotty said:

The easiest way to look at this, is does the spell act as armor, absorbing damage

"A critical hit ignores the effects of armor or any other protection". Ward Againt Weapon is a protection, wether or not it acts as an armour is RAW irrelevant.

On 10/13/2023 at 8:29 PM, RosenMcStern said:

My first idea is to split robot combat rules into basic and advanced and let players learn gradually. Basic rules would include only:

It would open the game to players not interested in accurate simulation. You may even limit the combat effects to the most used (or to the ones you'd like to be used the most).

May be simplify the Karma rules as well, even without Karma-points economy (like instead allow to re-roll or shift the success level or exchange the dice or bestow a bonus...), or at least without die-rolling the gain.

Note that I'm competely out of the Anime-geekism and I never played DD100, so I may be wrong.

Le Maître des Runes, French supplement for RQ3 by Oriflam (no clue if it was a translation of an English original nor if it can be found anywhere now). Tu ne devrais pas avoir de problème pour le lire 🙂

nor really. With a score of 123%, the tens are 12, which is 6- crit and 24- special.

Well, if you want to simplify the maths and stick close to the RAW, just look at the tens of you score. If you roll under half of it, it is a crit. If under twice of it, it is a special.

It only marginaly change the odds, and dividing or multiplying by 2 a one-digit number is not that difficult.

almost any chaotic cultist can be see as a bandit.

The best trollball team remains the one of the NUz-Ealand tribe.

May be you mean the Game Master Screen Pack which is not only a screen but a full book including adventures ?

19 hours ago, RosenMcStern said:

Good idea for the Discord, we actually have one for the main rules debate but it is mostly in Italian so we might need to open a more international one

But there is already one in English, although not very active 🤔

is that more or less what the character sheet of the core rules is going to be ?

and what if some tunnels are ever changing like the Puzzle Canal ? Or go too deep until Wakboth's Eye ? Or connect to some Krarsht tunnels ?

I never asked for a roll when I played RG2, except the POW vs. POW, and I'm not sure it would really bring something gamewise, since the POW economy is already a measure of the capacity to use magic.

Now I understand this for rune Magic in RQG, considering the availability of rune magic to initiates.

On 9/3/2023 at 12:28 PM, Darius West said:

I trust the similarity of Gonn Orta's name with that of Genert is old news?

never thought about this, but it opens new perspectives.

I was only reminding that mentions of private life and life partners shall be avoided on this Glorantha forum. My wife is definitely off-toppic. And no need here to invoke any fantasy of other members or whatsoever. Let's speak about Glorantha only. I may be exagerately sensitive on my privacy but also know that there was no intention from Nick to offend. So let's close this digression and go back to the toppic.

There are several scenarios with ritual wedding, so it looks like it is something "normal" and socialy accepted among Thelayans. I guess that some HQ would also involve this kind of episodes (the Red Cow HQ fo instance).

6 hours ago, Nick Brooke said:

Tell your wife (...)

Why do you say that ? Sorry, but I think this is a bit uncalled-for.

You can live as an exclusive couple without being married. Polygamy is a way to accept and officialize infidelity. Some couples like to share their sexuality. Exclusive monogamy is therefore neither universal nor absolutely related to marriage. And it makes completely sense to imagine that in a fantasy world, things went a different ways than IRL.

is the marriage in Gloranthan cultures always related to sexuality ? It is the case in our world because marriage used to be (and sitll is) a way to found a family cell and to insure heritage. Fidelity was therefore required. Like often, a social necessity became a moral rule and a religious one. And even so, marriage is not always related to religious rules or morality. I've even read that until the 12th century, there were more civil than religious marriage in Europe, not to speak about the numerous acknowledged illegitimate children of Kings and other high nobles.

So what about Glorantha ?