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BGBv2 could usefully consider such things as "Stunts" from Blood Tide, "Arete" from MW/AdvancedSorcery for skills over 100%, some CoC7-content (which is every bit as much "BRPE" as RQG is), and I'm sure other bits and bobs that have come out since the original BGB did; and some tightening/rearranging of the rules, some guidance as to what bits go best together, for folks who haven't been following the game since before the BGB was a gleam in Chaosium's eye...

I may have misunderstood something, but I believe Chaosium is holding off on opening up the sales untill all their fulfillment-centers have the initial stock available. Australia almost certainly had theirs first, but it didn't go on sale Down Under. Makes sense when you think about it: if we frothing fanboys heard that SOME folks were getting theirs, and we couldn't... can you imagine the screams of outrage? The desperate attempts to get Chaosium to just airship one or two cases, etc etc etc; managing customer expectations and special-requests and complaints &c would take up all their time.

I suspect Chaosium may still be doing their due diligence to fulfill the last few KS-backers; there are always a few whose confirmation details got spam-trapped, whose computers dies, who have moved, etc etc etc. Also a few damaged-in-transit they have to replace. And even the straightforward shipments just take time to fulfill. I'm sure Chaosium won't hold it up forever, for 100%-perfect delivery, but they promise KS backers get theirs 1st, right?

That Morocco result was some sort of glitch. I just went back to the link, and it returns results identical to the one you gave (south of the Isle of Wight, tracking to pass to the east and curve 'round to Southampton). Soon. Soon.

I trust you have seen Eclipse Phase? 🙂

Trust @styopa to shoot down a perfectly good moonboat! 😉 12m=39' is one of the classic sailboat sizes. With the transponder on, friends & relatives can have fun tracking it; or the owner, if it's on lease/loan; etc. Or (as noted) somebody just forgot ...

Broadswords only seem manly 'til you've met a Great Troll with a maul !

Very cool rediscovery! I wonder if she's gonna offer it up for sale... The collectors market would seem likely to pay a pretty penny! Any word on her plans?

The info is most-likely correct, not a glitch. 🙂 We'll let the moonboat hypothesis stand, for the nonce...

If you bought the original PDF when it was offered, you got in on the "earlybird offer". 🙂 I believe Chaosium is holding all the arrivals in their respective distribution centers, not available for sale, until all distribution centers have stock...

It is very very findable! It is far TOO findable for most decent folks' comfort. More than one poor thane making his way home from the annual Brewers Judgement at Barntar's Hall has thought he was walking in his own front door, only to find he was in a Highlow Holy Place of Eurmal... So too have various Lightbringer Priests who were on Very Urgent Business to the main Temple of an allied cult. Sadly, those actually SEEKING to find Sit Here... Well, mostly they don't. And nobody EVER finds it twice... Eurmal only Sat There once, after all! Of course, Trickster being Trickster, there may be some "unexpected" exceptions to these rules. Because rules aren't much of a Trickster thing, except in the breaking of them. YGMV -- mine certainly does!

TYVM, Antonio. Sorry for not reading the sidebar more carefully! (For those following via mobile skin, the "side"bar follows at the bottom of the review) I usually find your reviews worth reading. I may not always agree, but I cannot recall ever thinking you were just "wrong" -- it has always been a case of something where I could say "I see why he thinks that, even if I don't share his opinion.". It's always worth my time!

I think this belongs over on the Issaries stealing-vs-robbery & raids / combat-loot thread.

I think many deities would be willing to invest some POW into the survival of a faithful servant who was forward-thinking enough and powerful enough to have an Earthpower spell waiting to trigger... YGMV.

like I said: practical. 🙂 ('cos you can't pay the mortgage with a case of dice)

FWIW. this reviewer does a LOT of reviews. The CoC7 custom dice got a 3+5 rating (vs. the RQ dice 5+5), and the Pathfinder "Ironfang Invasion" and "Skill&Shackles" sets got 3+4 & 3+3 respectively (all Q-Workshop). Other dice have also gotten his 5+5 top-marks ratings. Agreed, though, that it'd be nice to see if he was reviewing a free-to-him gift, or a bought-at-retail product. I suspect so. Hence "license." ;-) nuChaosium seems to include some really practical business-minded sorts; I presume they are getting most of what they want out of this deal (and practicality suggests that'd be money).

???? um... nonesuch, I think. The "BGB" (DaVinci Man cover) is still for sale in PDF, and I think softcovers have not sold out. The plan is to PoD thereafter, afaik. Last I had heard, there was no plan for any "updated" BGB; it has been, I think, at least a year since they announced that. ### Is there any New News to the contrary (in the past few months)?

OK. Now I have to make a character named "E. Greejus Mon Shkinry" (or something similar).

Remember the Puppeteer reaction to the Ringworld... They were terrified. Now you're engineering with a black hole? Any sane Merchant will be simultaneously drooling with greed and wetting himself with terror. Same for a Scout. And likely most other professions...

I presume "spoils of war" (or of combat) is allowed (if the Issaries isn't the aggressor): whoever attacked the Issaries merchant "stole" the peace and the merchant's other use of the magic, rune-points, etc. But "general" robbery I'd disallow. Genuine value-for-value trading and mercantilism is a sacred practice; robbery is the antithesis of that. YGMV

As a HouseRule, I'd be OK with something Defense-like for some situations. How about this: Compare the Attack-Skill of the attacker vs. the best combat-skill of the defender (no matter what they are wielding -- because this "no declared Action" defense is hand-wavey fuzzy "stuff" in melee, independent of weapon(s) used. If the defender has AT LEAST TWICE THE SCORE of the attacker(s), the defender gets a 10% "Defense" applied to reduce the attacker's score. If they aren't that much better, they need to declare an Action to defend against the attack in any way. If the defender has AT LEAST THREE TIMES THE SCORE of the attacker(s), the defender gets an extra +10% (total 20%) Defense. Etc... 30% if the Defender has 4X the attackers' skills.

Also http://www.jonathantweet.com/jotgameppaward.html#RuneQuest (linked from that page).

No, it's 2-vs-1. Omega and EITHER Able or Bozo (vs me). But Omega is just that-much-more-dangerous that I don't parry/dodge/etc vs Bozo or even the more-able Able. Agreed that we don't want to get deep into those weeds (or nuts&bolts). We don't want to dissect the "fuzzy" bits and raise them to the level of choices and decisions and Actions. Nevertheless, there is a genuine level of simulation that "seems like" it could be included to cover things like this... The OP is looking for solutions in this space.

I'd like to re-cast Mikus' OP.. As I see it, he's really asking a defense-oriented question, not an attacking one, so let's flip it. I'm a highly-skilled fighter or martial artist. Lots of Dodge, Parry, etc. I am fighting a dangerous opponent, Omega, when one of two other foes (Able or Bozo) run up to ALSO engage me, O is enough more-dangerous than A or B that I take NO declared actions to oppose either: no parry/dodge/etc. Nevertheless, A is notably more skilled than B is. Realistically -- if the simulation of combat were realistic enough -- I would still be able to disadvantage Bozo's attacks more than I could Able's attacks, even with no "declared actions". I could circle away, I could throw a feint to try to make them spend an action of Parry/Dodge; I could shift my stance so I seemed more-threatening; I could recognize an "about to attack" shift, and fall back; etc. Skilled A would be less disadvantaged by this stuff; unskilled B would be "off his game". Returning to the OP perspective -- A should have a better chance to hit me than B should, even though I'm not declaring a Parry or a Dodge. All the combat systems under discussion (iirc) throw in some handwaves about how a combat-round presumes and subsumes a certain amount of moving-about, shifting stances, feints, probing moves, etc etc etc... Stuff is happening between the telling blows & dramatic dodges. That stuff -- even if it's "stuff" that includes no declared Actions -- is more effectual for more-skilled fighters (like me), and it's "stuff" that should keep Bozo from being as much of a threat as Able is, even if I never spend a declaration on either one of them.

This, I think. Is the big wind just "Orlanth being Orlanth" or is there a Sign to be read, a signal or even a command from the god? "YGMV" (Your Glorantha May Vary) is a longtime standard of the community, so feel free to just leave the weather as window-dressing and/or environmental hazard, as desired; but ALSO feel free to take advantage of how mytho-magical Glorantha is, and make (at least some of) the weather very significant indeed...