Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) And we are live https://www.chaosium.com/questworlds-system-reference-document/ https://questworlds.chaosium.com/ Looking forward to what you all do with this. For errors that you've found, or other feedback, the best way to raise it with Ian is probably to use GitHub - see "How to raise an issue" at https://github.com/ChaosiumInc/QuestWorlds/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md Edited October 1, 2020 by Scotty 15 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) Started with trying to download the SRD ... but all GitHub on questworls.chaosium.com related links fail with a 404 (Page not found) error currently ... Download from https://www.chaosium.com/questworlds-system-reference-document/ without any issue ... Edited April 21, 2020 by Oracle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Carpenter Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Outstanding! Congratulations to the whole QW team for their hard work! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roko Joko Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) I expect people will have feedback. For example I just found a confusing sentence that I think was probably mis-edited (the second sentence of section 2.0, beginning "Stories advance by ..." - it's a run-on sentence and very confusing to me.) There might also be typo reports, questions, and other kinds of feedback. Could you tell us what kinds of feedback you want and where/how we should give it? Edited April 21, 2020 by Roko Joko Quote What really happened? The only way to discover that is to experience it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tindalos Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Just wanting to check something. The Jonstown Compendium Content Guidelines say that you can use Questworlds when making material for the compendium. The Questworlds OGL says you cannot make Gloranthan using it. I'm hoping that means if you make Gloranthan scenarios/content using the questworld rules you have to publish it via the Compendium and not independently, rather than changing the Jonstown Compendium so that Questworlds isn't allowed at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaka84 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Tindalos said: Just wanting to check something. The Jonstown Compendium Content Guidelines say that you can use Questworlds when making material for the compendium. The Questworlds OGL says you cannot make Gloranthan using it. I'm hoping that means if you make Gloranthan scenarios/content using the questworld rules you have to publish it via the Compendium and not independently, rather than changing the Jonstown Compendium so that Questworlds isn't allowed at all? If it works like the BRP license, then, if you want to publish anything Glorantha related you have to do it through the Jonstown Compendium, likewise if you want to do anything with the Mythos you use the Miskantonic license. What seems to be absolutely off-limits without any kind of permission is anything related to Arthurian legend. So, picture it like this, you have three licenses from Chaosium Jonston <- Glorantha related stuff Miskatonic <- Mythos related stuff Anything else sans Arthurian legend <- Questworlds OGL Edited April 21, 2020 by Tanaka84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Oracle said: Started with trying to download the SRD ... but all GitHub on questworls.chaosium.com related links fail with a 404 (Page not found) error currently ... Download from https://www.chaosium.com/questworlds-system-reference-document/ without any issue ... Should be fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 23 minutes ago, Roko Joko said: I expect people will have feedback. For example I just found a confusing sentence that I think was probably mis-edited (the second sentence of section 2.0, beginning "Stories advance by ..." - it's a run-on sentence and very confusing to me.) There might also be typo reports, questions, and other kinds of feedback. Could you tell us what kinds of feedback you want and where/how we should give it? Two options. If you feel comfortable with that approach, raise a GitHub issue. If, not wait a day or so and I will start an errata thread. The good news is our turn around on these will be fast, as the artifacts are generated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 16 minutes ago, Tindalos said: Just wanting to check something. The Jonstown Compendium Content Guidelines say that you can use Questworlds when making material for the compendium. The Questworlds OGL says you cannot make Gloranthan using it. I'm hoping that means if you make Gloranthan scenarios/content using the questworld rules you have to publish it via the Compendium and not independently, rather than changing the Jonstown Compendium so that Questworlds isn't allowed at all? Yeah, it just means that you have to use the JC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 So, we gonna rename this subforum? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard S. Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 So I'm reading through it now and liking what I see, but, uh... you mind toning down the bold text a bit? I get that the point is to emphasize important words, but right now so much is bolded that it really doesn't emphasize anything and just makes me desensitized to bolding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soltakss Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 12 minutes ago, Richard S. said: So I'm reading through it now and liking what I see, but, uh... you mind toning down the bold text a bit? I get that the point is to emphasize important words, but right now so much is bolded that it really doesn't emphasize anything and just makes me desensitized to bolding. Personally, I love using Capital Letters, but it drives Other People Crazy, so I don't mind Bold Text that much. 1 Quote Simon Phipp - Caldmore Chameleon - Wallowing in my elitism since 1982. Many Systems, One Family. Just a fanboy. www.soltakss.com/index.html Jonstown Compendium author. Find my contributions here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 17 minutes ago, Richard S. said: So I'm reading through it now and liking what I see, but, uh... you mind toning down the bold text a bit? I get that the point is to emphasize important words, but right now so much is bolded that it really doesn't emphasize anything and just makes me desensitized to bolding. You can change it. Download the markdown file, open it (using something that opens markdown - I use Atom), change remove the bold, output as PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Richard S. said: So I'm reading through it now and liking what I see, but, uh... you mind toning down the bold text a bit? I get that the point is to emphasize important words, but right now so much is bolded that it really doesn't emphasize anything and just makes me desensitized to bolding. We wanted to clearly distinguish when we were using a word, like outcome, to refer to a game rule, or just generally. We use terms that can be confused, even in context, so we wanted to be clear as to intent. Any use of bold highlights a game term. Edited April 21, 2020 by Ian Cooper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_octogono Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I use bolded words for my own game rules but I usually do it when the term is introduced or really important to the current section. Otherwise I leave it un-bolded. That makes a nice balance and keeps attention to the new stuff you need to point at. 1 Quote Check my Lobo Blanco - Elric RPG (now in english!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archivist Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I already love how many things you used from different HQ books. Good job. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runeblogger Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Could someone please point me to a list of differences between the QuestWorlds SRD and HeroQuest 2.0? 🙂 Quote Read my Runeblog about RuneQuest and Glorantha at: http://elruneblog.blogspot.com.es/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 34 minutes ago, Runeblogger said: Could someone please point me to a list of differences between the QuestWorlds SRD and HeroQuest 2.0? 🙂 https://questworlds.chaosium.com/game-rules-srd/9-appendix-2/9-2-version-changes/ 3 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 hours ago, Ian Cooper said: Should be fixed Yes, works now as expected. 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene M. Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Bottom of the PDF has Documenth in place of Document. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvantir Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) Thank you very much for this SRD. 👍 I am currently running two campaigns with HeroQuest: Glorantha and don't feel the need to convert to QuestWorld though. But I have skimmed through the document and there are already some changes I will make based on this SRD (the new Resistance Table, the new Consequences of Defeat Table). And I am now considering the expanded Chained Contests rules as an alternative to Scored Contests if my players don't bite them or if I want the action to feel grittier. This SRD is also a very useful reference as there is a lot of clarified content. Edited April 21, 2020 by Corvantir 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Cooper Posted April 21, 2020 Author Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Corvantir said: Thank you very much for this SRD. 👍 I am currently running two campaigns with HeroQuest: Glorantha and don't feel the need to convert to QuestWorld though. But I have skimmed through the document and there are already some changes I will make based on this SRD (the new Resistance Table, the new Consequences of Defeat Table). And I am now considering the expanded Chained Contests rules as an alternative to Scored Contests if my players don't bite them or if I want the action to feel grittier. This SRD is also a very useful reference as there is a lot of clarified content. If you are playing HQG today, this will hopefully clarify, provide some tweaks to existing rules, and some options. But it's not significantly different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonpaulus Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 thank you very much. very well done job. I appreciate very much the introduction of the plot edit use of hero points. Eager to see soon genre pack about magic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrutila Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Great thing this is out now! About Group Simple Contest boosts @David Scott in some other thread said that the boosts can be bought after everyone has rolled. On 4/27/2019 at 7:52 PM, Nebuchadnezzar said: By RAW, they need to be bought before the roll (HQG, p. 70). However, in the example of play (Samastina’s Saga: Leaving Nochet, HQG, p. 72), a boost is purchased retroactively, to turn a tie into a Marginal Victory. On 4/28/2019 at 4:40 PM, David Scott said: As writer of the examples, this is an error in the RAW. The example is correct. This will go into the corrections page on the new Glorantha resource site. Now, in QW2.2 in chapter 4.5.3 it is quite clearly stated that boosts can be purchased before the contest. Is this now the final ruling about boosts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newt Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Congratulations to Ian and the rest of the Chaosium team for getting this out Its warmed the cockles of this old HQ Narrator's heart and as a publisher made my head explode with the possibilities Thank you for bring back a game that I loved and meant a lot to me from the last decade and for giving it a future going forward 4 2 Quote Head Honcho of D101 GamesPublisher of Crypts and Things/Monkey/OpenQuest/River of HeavenThe Sorcerer Under the Mountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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