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I guess it's also worth checking if you have tried the game formerly called "Hero Wars" & "HeroQuest" ... it's more narratively focused, less crunchy/simulationist, than the RQ ruleset. It had 2 Gloranthan editions, and a general-use / non-setting-specific one. It's out of print, as Chaosium sold the name (but not the RPG) to AvalonHill/Hasbro (and the "Heroquest" boardgame is now available from them). Chaosium's HW/HQ ruleset has been renamed QuestWorld, and is available as a free SRD (on github, I think). Chaosium is working on the print edition; an announcement is coming soon. The used aftermarket still has the older print copied showing up, occasionally; and of course you can grab the SRD right away... AIUI, the SRD is going setting-agnostic again, with a Gloranthan resource-pack / expansion planned to follow shortly; the fan community should be able to help you with any needed Gloranthafications of the generic rules from the SRD.

Depending on whether you're using the canonical timeline -- and when this season is happening -- you might also go with the Lunars as bad-guys: they are working to undercut Ernalda's independence, to get her to accept a Lunar alliance.

Oh, a very "Shakesperian Comedy" take on the scenario!!! Love this one!

Note that most Americans have problems understanding American legal texts.

Hello, and welcome! Also, best of luck in your search! Also: @Scotty @Trifletraxor @Symphony Entertainment @Nick Brooke pointing to the thread I posted a while back: ... 🙏 Please?! 🤩

It's another one of (many) exemplars of "crossing the streams," of atomic-element-A co-opting something from atomic-element-B... specifically addressing @Sir_Godspeed's remarks on the "elemental identity" thing being abused (specifically -vs- and wasp-vs-Yelmalian).

I'm pretty sure AA is the patron of trollkin spear-use... doesn't get much more anti- than a sky/light/fire weapon!

"required art" ???

(also, this should be promoted more widely... I will mention on FB, but is there a substantive RQ fan presence on reddit, or etc?

@Nick Brooke -- is it possible Chaosium wants to adopt this improved template as the one they provide to everyone, instead of people all having to reinvent that same wheel (or make do without)?

Huh. I don't particularly recall having voted previously... but it tells me I have!

Fair enough; I disagree -- just based upon how conventional usage has worked out -- but then, I don't see universal agreement on all points is necessary or desirable. Don't you agree, comrade? 😉

I think the guy who's creating the character/campaign website -- bruge.us -- has most/all of the SRD there. But not as a single standalone .TXT (or RTF, or markdown, or other common/simple e-format) document.

I wouldn't expect a rat who's on fire to have *ANY* agenda besides finding the nearest water to dive-into or roll-around-in, and *ZERO* willingness to return to the scene... YGWV.

I know that the text of the new edition functions as an SRD for all legal purposes. But that's not the same as having a usable plaintext standalone SRD. Any word as to whether Chaosium is producing this (and if so, when?), or if anyone is producing it on their own ... and an ETA?

I believe the "Demi-birds" were based (as many archetypal animals in & around Dragon Pass) on a fossil species. In this case one of the so-called "Terror Birds," the Phorusrhacidae (if it was any specific species, I don't know of it). Bigger than an ostrich, and with an absolutely massive head & beak. See:

The "Artisanal" character-sheet released for RQG was a thing of beauty -- I loved it! But looked upon it with deep suspicions as to legibility in-play. My fears were borne out at the table, alas!

Honestly, it feels like it's too soon to call it "dead." These things take time. Should the line be continued in an evolutionary way... expanding the 2e offerings, or tweaking the rules to a V2.1 or V2.5 or V3 revision? Should it be ported to BRP (likely borrowing from LotMS and/or Blood Tide)? Should it become a setting for QuestWorlds? Do these even have to be mutually-exclusive??!? I would expect all this to take rather more more than a month or two! In the end, Chaosium is going to be looking long and hard at the sales numbers, at lessons learned and at what they can reasonably project into the future. On the optimistic side, here: I presume they took a good hard look at JWP's numbers before stepping in to rescue that KS, and similarly presume they thought they could make a reasonable stab at it, then. No idea what their experience has been, since then. (n.b. I am not Chaosium; I do not have any inside info. I speculate, as fans do)

@OriginalLadders you could also consider that the higher-level mastery (beyond what the basic rules permit) is equivalent to getting an extra development-point. That is, rather than being a collection of randomly-discrepant exceptions, it's a suite of curated, balanced exceptions... 😁

I'd have the ship augment the characters. You want it to be the players' rolls, so they get augment'ed by the ship, not augment the ship's rolls (then it's also the ship augmenting the NPC's, for consistency). Unless you're moving to something like McCaffrey's Ship Who Sang 'verse (or other ship-as-PC setting), of course! I think crew-as-keyword works (with breakouts for particularly-skilled crew). I don't know the community rules well enough to comment, but intuitively that "should" be a good approach.

Of course "demonic" is VERY much a culturally-relative thing. Some people will call Trolls "darkness demons;" and they wouldn't be wrong... even if they aren't entirely right, either.

I think this is an excellent point. Take the canonical books as the truth, but don't necessarily presume that LM/IO/etc lore-masters are notably closer to that truth than family-lore known to longtime neighbors, and to people with ancient ties to draconic knowledge...

It's always possible they got DMCA'ed by the IP owner(s). I doubt Chaosium sees it as worthwhile to actually defend it in court. And, given that BRPC is now Chaosium's official forum (and staff are active here): it's relevant that Chaosium produces media commercially, making individuals' "fair use" a harder defense to claim on this site. There's already an Alien RPG, so BRP'izing "Alien" is pretty explicitly using someone's already-licensed IP in a competing product; the fact that you are offering it "for free" doesn't let Chaosium (who actually does the hosting, and sells competing RPGs) offer it for free; similarly for other peoples' artwork (used without permission). I expect if you found some explicitly royalty-free artwork ("taken from the internet" does not suffice) -- or did it yourself; or commissioned an artist -- you could get away with stuff like 3 Musketeers, as the Dumas isn't (c)'ed; but not using images from any of the movies. n.b. - I Am Not A Lawer, do not rely upon me for legal advice, hire your own attorney.

I suspect it's something specific to the sounds, for a native speaker; and possibly some different cultural referents & touchstones to the USAian sensibilities.

When you cite Norway & the Aleutians here, are you talking about the physical landscape? Or something more human-centric?