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> What is this "work of conversion" of which you speak? I'm not
> playing that much HQ in Glorantha these days but I ran three chunks > from Barbarian Adventures a couple of weeks back with HQ2 and there
> wasn't any conversion needed. And that was for Hero Wars...
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> You really don't need NPC stats for HQ2 (or actually for HQ1 or HW)
If you don't want or use the stats, then obviously there is no problem in converting from a source that provides them. The problem is that if you *do* want stats (and the HQ2 draft rules I saw did have them, if not prominantly) then not having them at all does require that you do some work