PhilHibbs

Fair point, Sever Spirit has the same mechanic. So where there clearly is an active side, it makes sense. Where it's a symmetric roll, I guess you just ignore crits and specials.

Another quirk is, if you have an augment on your POW vs POW roll for casting a spell, does that raise your chance from 05% to 25% even if you are seriously out-matched (as happened today with a Humakti POW 13 vs Idrima)? I ruled that it did, but she failed anyway, but on second thoughts that would mean that the Crimson Bat would probably be taken down by four people casting Sever Spirit at it.

I'm not so sure about it, the resistance table never had specials or criticals because it should be symmetric and not dependent on who is "active". If you're using it for an arm wrestling contest, both sides should have equal chance of critical success, and whoever ends up on the "passive" side is at a disadvantage.

It took me a while to find Spirit Combat Damage, I was just about to post that you had missed it out! I think this should be up with the stats along side SR and damage modifier.

Snap!

18 vs 6 is 110%, and 28 vs 6 is 160%, so either way it's the same. 160%.

The Berserk Countermagic effect is fairly trivial - if it does work just like Countermagic like it says, it goes down as soon as the first spell hits it, and a 2 point Rune Spell or a 1 point with 2 MP boosting it will blow right through it.

Special is probably over-stating it, but the way I see it is they are among the best that their generation has produced, the most dedicated and adventurous. So no, not all are as skilled, but not for any special reason.

Nice. Is it done purely in a graphics editor, or do you have original files in some format that you render for a PDF? Does anyone have recommendations for good software for laying out character sheets?

How about changing the top line to "Original/Max" and putting a / in above each space, and the bottom line to "Current"?

SAN loss occurs when a modern, rational, scientific mind is confronted with the impossible. In Glorantha most people can believe six impossible things before breakfast.

Thanks. One thing I haven't quite cracked yet is the sorting of skills into alphabetical order after translation. Categories will have to stay as they are, for layout reasons.

Okay all that's in. I've contracted a few, e.g. "R HintB", "L VordB", does that make sense in context? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RHsYJeJw8NtSubDE--MENwd6rhfZVe-9WgFeG52cwM/edit?usp=sharing

Ok here's my next list: N/A Random Average Excluding blanks 1/MR Right Hind Leg Left Hind Leg Hindquarters Forequarters Right Foreleg Left Foreleg For all of the above, please can I have short, abbreviated versions for use in tight spaces, e.g. I use "ForeQ" for "Forequarters", "RForeL" for Right Foreleg", and "Excl blank" for "Excluding blanks". That will conclude the core mechanics. After that it's professions, species, cults, cultures, languages, family background choices, and miscellaneous instructions text. Rather than keeping on posting here, I'd like to give someone direct access to my spreadsheet so they can read and enter them directly. @Joerg, @Oracle, do either of you have a Google Drive account? Alternative to Google is to just download or copy the list into other software and email me the results.

There is an errata download somewhere... Rick did it... can't find it now... Aha! https://basicroleplaying.org/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=3337

I think joining Humakt is an option, because then you aren't kin any more.

Bestiary p81: That's a special case in the Blinding spell, and it always struck me as odd that this one spell should have that feature, but should it be a general rule, that extra Rune Points spent when casting a spell boost the chance of overcoming the target's POW? Also, there's a subtle difference between "+25%" and "as if the caster had a POW of 23". The first wording would give a 30% chance of overcoming a POW of 100, whereas the second would not. I'd go with the second, allowing 4RP to overcome absolutely any level of POW is too generous. The Crimson Bat would be dead in seconds flat every time it showed up.

The HeroQuesting rules will be built around the players and GM not needing to know the myths. Some examples would be good though, to give the group an idea of the sort of thing to aim for.

Thanks, that might be useful if I have limited space. For the others, it doesn't really matter which I go for now, as I will "correct" them all to the official names when the full translation is complete.

Thanks for all that! Stillstand is in the Quickstart so I'm going with that as the official translation. If you disagree, talk to Julia! "Fruitbasket" was just a joke based on what "Fruchtbarkeit" looks and sounds like. We make a lot of jokes based around the German language, it just sounds hilarious to us sometimes. I think it's because we have a lot of rude words that are derived from Saxon and Nordic words due to our French aristocracy 900 years ago. Thanks again! I'll post a new list of needs tomorrow.

Any suggestions for the following, please: Alchemy Bureaucracy Cult Lore Library Use Celestial Elder Race Peaceful Cut Shiphandling Prepare Corpse Sense Assassin Sense Chaos Understand Herd Beast Devise Enc Length Rate If you follow the link in the first post, you will see my progress on the Translate tab. Any suggestions or corrections welcome! And here's what it looks like so far! p.s. Why do you have a "Fruit Basket" rune?

The length thing is largely cosmetic, and mostly affects the CharGen tab where it just makes columns wider so you can see less of the character creation process at once. There are probably a few translations that will affect the layout of the CharSheet as well, that's going to be tricky.

You see that is the problem right there! I use "Attributes" as a column heading, and "abgeleitete Eigenschaften" just won't fit!

I downloaded the German version of the Quickstart today!

Hi @Oracle thanks for offering to help with the German translation. Some of the answers to my questions may to need to wait until the official translation is out, since I want them to line up with the specific choices made for the translation - e.g. Characteristics I know is translated to Eigenschaften but I do not know what Attributes will be translated to as that term is not in the Quickstart (or the Schnellstartregeln)! Mostly what I need is advice on how to translate vernacular terms, and how to contract things to fit in limited space. For instance, does "Kat" make sense as short for "Kategorie", or is even that not clearly enough the same as the full word "Fertigkeitskategorie"? I shorten "Temporary Additions" to "Temp Adds", so I need something short that makes sense to a German speaker. I could make something up like "Tempzusatz" but that might be nonsense, or accidentally rude for all I know, but it sure is shorter than "Zeitweilige Hinzufügung" (which may be just as bad). I've done some of it, here it is, I'll share it again when I've done all the basic terms. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12RHsYJeJw8NtSubDE--MENwd6rhfZVe-9WgFeG52cwM/edit?usp=sharing Have you used my character sheet before, or is it new to you? Here's the main thread, and there are instructions for use on the wiki and also in French.