Bilharzia

I'm running a short Borderlands campaign on roll20, one of the players and myself are keeping a diary here Borderlands is pretty straightforward (possibly too much so) but that quality makes it easy to use with new players of the system and setting. It's also easy to borrow bits from River of Cradles, Shadows over the Borderlands and Sun County to incorporate into a campaign using Borderlands as the base. I found Dorastor and Strangers in Prax great for background and flavour but practically unplayable due to incredibly high powered NPCs. Dorastor is a good place to send your Rune level PCs to die. It's the last place in Glorantha I would start newbies in...but maybe all the more reason, it would work as a DCC style game.

The two PCs did well climbing and sneaking to the top of the tower without waking the two harpies who were there, that they didn't know about. I had them lightly dozing which gave them a Hard penalty on their perception rolls as the two snuck up to each. Despite being a new Lanbril (thief cult) initiate, Pharzeela is not especially skilled as an ambushing type. They manage to take out both harpies, sneaking up and knocking them out, one of them takes off but is skewered by Chingua's impaling javelin, going to the ground. Creeping down the tower steps and into the first room on the first floor some good sneaking and terrible Perception rolls on the part of the Tusk Riders, they are at the doors of their rooms without being noticed. I had two of the Riders talking and eating in their mess hall, with the boss in his private room as almost the entire party rush in. I thought the Riders would still have their armour on, but not with their weapons ready. Bera takes down Sheatiog, the Rider's amateur shaman, Sheatiog manages to parry successfully, batting a spear out of the way with his arms (Which would have saved him from a Special Effect and half the damage from the attack) - but Kevin spends a Luck Point to reverse Sheatiog's parry roll - to 54 - a fail! Bera hits him in the leg, choosing Impale as a special effect, goes through armour and gets a Serious Wound, The Mystic Kid fails his Endurance roll, which means he falls prone and is Stunned for d3 (2) turns, he can only move and defend himself, and now Prone, any attack will be at a Formidable penalty. It looks like his scary spirit "Searing Flesh" might not come into play... Even worse for Sheatiog, Bera pulls his spear out of the leg wound, giving Sheatiog a Major Wound, and he's out of the fight. The players' luck continues with a couple of Crits: But Pharzeela, getting into the action-heroine spirit, manages to fumble a charge across a table Luckily the damage she does to herself is pretty minor. Unluckily, she's out of action points now, she immediately gets hit, and starts to bleed from a nasty wound to her arm: The next round her heal spell fails to work as she's Fatigued from the Bleed Special Effect: In the end though the party have come out on top: Although they're still only on the first floor of the tower.

Mythic Constantinople has full rules for grenades (Grenados), gunpowder, early firearms, artillery and Greek Fire, a lot of burning and exploding malarkey to be had there. I think what you've figured out for yourself isn't a million miles of the rules but MC includes some interesting details you might not have considered.

The party move across the Zola Fel into the east. Pharzeela disarms and knocks one of the Tusk Riders off his Tusker. Bera moves in and Compels his Surrender. The other Tusk Rider takes off, Farangar thinks about giving chase. Of course it's the scholar woman from Nochet who makes all her attacks, criticals, disarms and dis-mounts one of the riders, all in the same round. Shiogan reels in pain clutching his leg, fails to overcome it and is stunned for 2 turns. We have a plan to take this tower...all ready?

There are multiple audiences. GMs/Keepers would be perfectly happy with a ring binder and plain text, maybe with some maps and handouts, in fact I think they'd prefer that. Most people who will buy this will never run it, but they want it to look purty, it's the glossy souvenir, concept art book, programme, from the main feature.

I've moved away from Glorantha quite a bit but recently I have just started a campaign on Roll20 using Mythras with 5 players. This is the starting region: Characters are based on biographies from the RQ3 River of Cradles with a couple of custom backgrounds I've cobbled together: I've taken a little bit from Adventures in Glorantha but mostly the culture information. I'm skipping Rune Affinities although initially I was planning to use them. Most of the players are new-ish to Mythras although I think 3 (?) have played some version of RQ2 or 3. All the PCs have arrived at Raus fort and set out on a scout of the region. So far the party are halfway around their tour of the region, they've travelled with the Duke and retinue to the village of Weis which seems to be doing worse than it should. An old woman has hinted at an incident in the past involving a disease outbreak and theives in the community, but they haven't got any more information. They leave the village with questions about the place and head out to the Agimori settlement in caves nearby. The Agimori tell a story about their fellows being held by the Morokanth to the south and demand justice. The Duke sends the party south accompanied by an Agimori band including the chief himself. The journey will take two days across the chapparal. Towards evening at the end of the first day they spot a party of Morokanth slavers. A difficult parley starts up with the party and the Morokanth leader Keenclaw. One of the party detects multiple magic items on the Morokanth party, a strange mix of Morokanth and glassy-eyed (animal intelligence) Herd Men - a concept entirely unfamiliar to most of them. An Orlanthi warrior demands assistance from Keenclaw to help with negotiations to free the Agimori hunters at Bilos Gap the response is a contemptuous laugh from Keenclaw, he refuses and demands to be let on his way, the Orlanthi makes a threat which raises Keenclaw's ire, a spirit manifests around him showing off his superior power. The party backs down and leaves Keenclaw and his troop to move on to Horn Gate. Arriving at Horn Gate the party witness a gathering of around 200 Morokanth preparing for a ritual, this puts a dampener on their plans to raid and rescue the Agimori. Both the Morokanth and Agimori demand justice from the Duke's men. The Morokanth explain the hunters were caught raiding their Herd Men, and instead of killing them as thieves, (as other nomad tribes would do) they will instead be turned into Herd Men during the upcoming ritual. After some discussion amongst themselves they put forward an unusual solution - Farangar, a good Orator, puts forward the case - one of the Agimori should be kept by the Morokanth for the ritual, the other should be returned to the Agimori. A risky solution as even if successful this proposition is bound to annoy both parties, as it goes Farangar fails to convince the Morokanth or the Agimori of the justice of this proposition - they must decide for one side or the other. They side with the Agimori - displeasing the Morokanth intensely but nevertheless they accept the decision. The Agimori celebrate and sing the praises of the Duke and his just rule.

My experience has been very similar to Gryphaea's on Roll20, I also go with the Roll20+Discord combo which so far has worked very well. Another popular duo is Roll20+Skype although personally using Skype like this hasn't worked for me but I think I'm an exception. Discord has a few more useful features than both Skype & Roll20 itself. As far as sheets goes from my experience Matthew Carpenter's RuneQuest6 and now Mythras are the best RQ-related sheets on Roll20, whether he would be interested or have the time to develop a RQG one I don't know. He has been pretty active in developing and improving the Mythras one, he posts regular updates here https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/designmechanism/roll20-sheet-for-mythras-t2107.html There are some spectacular sheets made by contributors on roll20, like the one for Sprawl is gorgeous, but it seems like a thankless task for the authors, the fact that any of them exist seems a minor miracle.

The core system by itself can do quite a lot, how it's used depends on the campaign setup. I spent a fair bit of time customising "stunts" from Blood Tide but in the end realised I was just re-inventing Mysticism under a different name. It was useful for a bit of flavour but not really that much. I did end up keeping a few of the weird stunts but charge XP instead of MP, for example: "Friends in High Places and Low" - Find someone in a crowd who is a friend (1xp) "Indy!" - Find someone in a crowd who will follow your madcap plan - gain NPC ally (3XP) Looking at sorcery, even an out-of-chargen basic sorcerer PC can boost their action points from 3 to 5 in 2 casting actions for the cost of 2 mp, as long as the spells are allowed in the setting and are ok with the GM. This might not seem much but for a starting Mythras character is practically super-human. I think the reason the heroic feat-like abilities from Legend were not included is that they're out of step with the rest of the system where Mythras/RQ6 is trying to reduce the number of exceptions and special cases these abilities add clauses and oddities which duplicate or nearly duplicate other abilities.

I don't think so, if you read the changes he has already made it sounds like he has added significantly to skills and firearms which put it beyond both BRP and Legend and OpenQuest. The point is in that case you may as well publish using Legend or OpenQuest than worry about issues with BRP. Of course if you significantly re-write any game system you could publish it as your own.

Why not publish it using Legend and add your own modifications? Legend - Mongoose | Legend | DriveThruRPG.com It uses the Open Game Licence so you are free to publish your game using the Legend rules without the need to seek permission. This would also mean that your materials would be compatible with BRP-style game systems generally. The Legend system is essentially Mongoose Runequest II with some changes to remove the setting context. Legend You could also use OpenQuest: http://openquestrpg.com/ http://basicroleplaying.com/openquest/

I think Monster Island & Book of Quests is just that Monster Island Discovered!

It just gets worse the more you read it, there are missing stats, duplicated stats, references to D&D artifacts, to divine magic spells. I wasn't sure what the strange elements were until Pete & Loz pointed it's using MRQ1, and when I look at now it seems all the NPCs and monsters are using MRQ1 skills, systems, magic but even given that it's still a mess.

I hope it does well because I like Xoth and the original campaign from Xoth.net (even if it is d&d), but I find the conversion quite poor. I completely agree Blood Magic is a perfect fit for the campaign - all the more strange that it is not used or referenced anywhere in the conversion. There are so many odd things about this book as a conversion. The substance of the adventures and the setting is still good, but you can find that in the original, the whole thing seems underdeveloped and a real missed opportunity. The stat blocks are physically big on the page but don't flesh out the characters, primary antagonists are given the sparsest of treatment in comparison to the original, because approach of the conversion is to strip away magic and magic spells some of the 'villains' of the adventure set pieces come out as workaday low-skill sorcery apprentices who are difficult distinguish between - did I just read the third sorcerer in another adventure with exactly the same 2 spells as the last two? yep, I just did. Low-magic seems almost no-magic here. The art work seems arbitrary and actually stops part way through - after page 36, no more illustrations except maps. OK the maps are definitely better, I am not a fan of battle-board style squares on maps but this is possibly the one instance where there has been some development over the original. The conversion author/s (uncredited) does not seem to understand combat styles - if there are 4 weapons listed, yep, you get skill percentages for 4 combat styles. This isn't a criticism of the author Morten Braten and from reading the Mongoose forums this can't have been fun for the publishers if they kept losing conversion authors, but wow, this was disappointing. Apologies for ranting, I just got it today and have been reading it this evening. I wouldn't get this without also getting the original from xoth.net.

It is highly compatible, if you wanted to use it with RQ6 most of the work would be in converting the language used. For example Piety in BM becomes Devotion in RQ6 and Invoke becomes Exhort. The Blood Miracles chapter reads like a bridge between MRQII and RQ6. Some parts of sorcery in BM are now superseded by RQ6 but all the sorcery spells themselves could be used as-is. You would have to do a bit of work converting the descriptions of the Sacrificial Divine Magic spells but not much. Most of the book is about how to use sacrificial magic in the context of a setting and as such is not really tied to the mechanics. There's a fair chunk casting spells as a group (concert casting) and a ten page demon generator...