(Message inbox:11) Return-Path: rowe@soda.berkeley.edu Delivery-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:16:34 -0700 Received: from localhost.Berkeley.EDU by soda.berkeley.edu (5.65/KAOS-1) id AA16519; Mon, 18 Oct 93 21:16:31 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <9310190416.AA16519@soda.berkeley.edu> Return-Path: sys@holland.sun.com Delivery-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 22:34:11 -0700 Received: from plague-ether.Berkeley.EDU by soda.berkeley.edu (5.65/KAOS-1) id AA17792; Wed, 18 Aug 93 22:34:06 -0700 Received: from Sun.COM by plague.Berkeley.EDU (5.65c/CHAOS) id AA02082; Wed, 18 Aug 1993 22:19:09 -0700 Received: from snail.Sun.COM (snail.Corp.Sun.COM) by Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00678; Wed, 18 Aug 93 22:16:45 PDT Received: from Holland.Sun.COM (isunnl) by snail.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA25580; Wed, 18 Aug 93 22:16:35 PDT Received: from glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM by Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1e) id AA25487; Thu, 19 Aug 93 07:16:29 +0200 Received: by glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22206; Thu, 19 Aug 93 07:15:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 07:15:20 +0200 Message-Id: <9308190515.AA22206@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM> From: RuneQuest-Request@glorantha.holland.sun.com (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@glorantha.holland.sun.com (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 19 Aug 1993, part 1 Reply-To: RuneQuest@glorantha.holland.sun.com (RuneQuest Daily) Sender: RuneQuest-Request@glorantha.holland.sun.com Precedence: junk Resent-To: appel@soda.berkeley.edu Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 21:16:30 -0700 Resent-From: Eric RoweStatus: O The RuneQuest Daily and RuneQuest Digest deal with the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. Send submissions and followup to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue. Try to change the Subject: line from the default Re: RuneQuest Daily... on replying. Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM. Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld) --------------------- From: JARDINE@RMCS.CRANFIELD.AC.UK Subject: Free Ghost & Humakt Message-ID: <9308180917.AA28636@Sun.COM> Date: 18 Aug 93 09:13:00 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1411 Ref: X-RQ-ID: 1395 (Neil Robinson) > Why doesn't Humakt teach Free Ghost? Ah, Neil, this question shows that you have been playing other games like DnD. In RQ Ghosts are classified as spirits that have been bound to areas and not as undead. Therefore, they are not on Humakt's automatic hate list. Basically RQ undead are creatures that still have a fraction of their former spirit bound into their bodies, but they are cut off from the flow of life and thus have no POW (but often MPs). Ghosts most definately have POW. In fact, to prove the point, in Snake Pipe Hollow there is a Humakti ghost (Bright Blade Blue) and we know that Humakti cannot be turned into undead, ergo, ghosts are not undead. General question to all you experts out there. How do you classify Hellions, Lamia and Succubi (or as my old granny in Greydog village used to say SuckYouDry). These all do not have POW and have to get their sustainence in interesting ways. ----- Lewis ----- --------------------- From: b_kondalski@vssi.trw.com (Brian J. Kondalski) Subject: Spirit Scan Message-ID: <9308181320.AA12363@Sun.COM> Date: 18 Aug 93 13:21:03 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1412 What rules do people provide for spirit scan in RQ2? I'm interested in the following situations: 1) When can a spirit be detected (no power, just know a spirit is there). 2) When can a spirit be detected (not exact power within 5 points) 3) When can a spirit be detected (exact power). 4) When can runic ties be seen. 5) Should it be harder to detect a bound spirit as opposed to one free floating? I was looking at providing a system where free floating spirits would have a larger range than spirits bound in items (ie, ally in armor, weapon, animal as opposed to a free floating fetch or controlled spirit). Something like (with distances in meters): 1) Free floaters at POW*10, bound can not do 2) Free floaters at POW*5, bound at POW 3) Free floaters at POW, bound only at contact 4) Both only at contact unless a character chooses to project them, and then they are visible at phase 3. The runic detection is the hardest part. To me it seems that any system that has a way to detect your runes without your permission is quite dangerous. Imagine how easy it would be to find an enemy cultist if you could detect runes at range (try to hide your Lanbril from the Pavis cult!) The reasons that I give different ranges for bound and free floaters is that I feel a bound spirit is out of touch with the spirit plane, and is less able to pick up power sources from it. I have also thought about throwing into the system the fact that it might be easier to detect free-floating spirits as opposed to bound spirits. Any thoughts/suggestions out there for changes/refinement? How does RQ3 handle this? Brian J. Kondalski b_kondalski@vssi.trw.com --------------------- From: mstrong@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mike Strong) Subject: Re: Criticals, Specials, Fumbles and E Prime Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 93 14:17:13 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1413 In-Reply-To: <9308180515.AA29552@glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM> I agree with Lewis' comments about mathematically deriving crits, specials, and fumbles rather than looking up tables all the time. Been doing this for years. However, dividing can be tricky stuff; it's easier to calculate crits and specials with multiplying. i.e Critical: multiply by 5 Special: multiply by 20 You should then divide by 100 (but since this is simply a case of moving the decimal point two places it is easy), and ignore anything after the decimal point. The only additional thing to remember is that 01 is always a critical, and 00 is always a fumble... Mike --------------------- From: ngl28@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de Subject: ELRIC Message-ID: <5660*_S=ngl28_OU=rz_PRMD=uni-kiel_ADMD=dbp_C=de_@MHS> Date: 18 Aug 93 20:59:13 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1414 Using Elric as RQ-Lite Some thoughts and ideas 1. Allegiances If one wants to transfer the gameworld to Glorantha, the allegiances need to be rethought. This paragraph is based on the assumption that one keeps the threepart allegiance system presented in Elric!. Chaos is quite evident, and not a thing to aspire on Glorantha for normal characters. Balance is the great compromise, i.e. the thing all the Deities and religions other than chaotics stand for. Law is the most difficult to describe, since Moorcocks definition is not the meaning of the Gloranthan Law rune. I'd assign Mostali Stasis loving powers and God Learner secrets to Elric! law. Opinions? Gaining allegiance points would have to be changed. Magic on Glorantha is not chaotic (most isn't, anyway), and doesn't deserve the Chaos penalty. Another course to follow would be the old idea of runic ties. Or the slow rise to hero status. Any ideas? 2. Magic The magic types on Glorantha shouldn't change too much. Spirit magic and divine magic could stay mostly the same, at least for initiate types. The demon summoning rules rethought could give interesting variants for shamanistic magic apart from spirit magic. Sorcery of one kind or the other (the RQ3 system admittedly is not too Gloranthan, other versions are being worked on in the RQ4-discussion, and were presented here earlier. For Non-Gloranthan RuneQuest, one could work the other way round: include the demon- and elemental-summoning business into RuneQuest and adjust it in power to the level known from RQ. For my own campaign world, I certainly will (in fact I'll combine it with the Stormbringer crossover I tried to work out before). Maybe I'll post it some time, although it is tied to the cultures which use it. And it's still in German language :-( Enough for now. Joerg P.S. Due to a hard disk crash (one day after extensive backupping :-) I cannot reply to any mail posted to my regular account at joe@sartar.toppoint.de. Please have patience with me. I may have lost some issues of the daily (July mostly). Does anybody archive them apart from Shannon Appel on soda.berkeley.edu (the last entries are from May 93)? As soon as my machine runs again I'll specify a list. Please help a collector. P.P.S. Work on Free INT 6 is delayed by that, too, but I'll try to keep my schedule. Contributions are welcome, this time we'll concentrate on magic. If nothing else goes wrong it'll be out end of September/start of October. Joerg Baumgartner ngl28@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de --------------------- From: nrobinso@sirius.UVic.CA (Neil Robinson) Subject: RE: High Level Combat Message-ID: <34616.nrobinso@sirius.uvic.ca> Date: 18 Aug 93 17:36:52 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1415 Thanks Rob, you cleared a few things up. A drop in parry of 140% did seem a little bogus. We're still spending about half our time discussing rules during combat in the high level game (only 2 combats so far), but are getting much faster with the other (lower-level) game. Its like we were playing 'Beginner' and are now moving into 'Intermediate'. Isn't the combat system you use for high level based on one Steve Maurer (?) put out, or at least it was originally published like that? I remember it from a few years ago. The table concept for attack vs. parry is good, and I wish RQ II had one out. It took us quiet a while to work out what a special attack did to a normal parry, or a special parry and a normal attack. ---------------- And now back to healing.....(the current digest favourite) It seems that our group has been neglecting the 5mr wait between spells (RQ III did it to me :-). I wasn't even aware of the 10mr time limit - although it should be extended a little if you have a 5mr wait between healing spells. The one spell per location rule is ok if you allow a higher level healing to add its extra points to that location. It does limit max healing on an area to your parties best healer. I still think that Rune Healing ignores any other restrictions, and can be cast on top of battle/spirit magic healing without a problem. ----------------------------------- To Greg Fried: RE: Buying Direct from AH I do not want to purchase directly from AH, even though I have to wait 2+ months to buy it locally. This isn't knocking AH, as I have found its mail-order system to be very fast and accurate, including sending me a free copy of RQ Cities when my old one was missing pages. However, I want to ensure that our local gaming store, ok there are 2 stores, still stocks RQ. For Stormbringer, er Elric, I have to spend $50.00+ to travel across the water to Vancouver. Although AD&D munchkins dominate the area, I'm hoping that more people will consider RQ. Of course, it doesn't help that RQ gets hidden in the back corner. Neil Robinson | "Never underestimate the power of human nrobinso@sirius.uvic.ca | stupidity." - L. Long 2996 Dysart Rd. Victoria B.C. V9A 2K2 (604) 385-1642 --------------------- From: pmichaels@aol.com Subject: product format Message-ID: <9308181715.tn172581@aol.com> Date: 18 Aug 93 21:15:43 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1416 In my issue of _Dorastor: Land of Doom_ (still feverishly reading!) there is a buyer response card asking me to respond to several questions about product quality, etc... One of the questions asks about what product format I prefer, with the choices being: - softbound perfect binding - softbound saddlestitch - hardbound book - box - other Does anyone out there know the differences between these formats? Could you please describe them to me, including strengths and weaknesses? To throw this open to all those who may not buy _Dorastor_, what do *you* prefer? Thanks! and Peace, Peter --------------------- From: mace@lum.asd.sgi.com (Rob Mace) Subject: healing Message-ID: <9308192231.AA01077@lum.asd.sgi.com> Date: 19 Aug 93 08:31:26 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1417 Here is how we do healing. - Healing spells on a single wound must be cast at least 10 rounds apart for multiple spells to take effect. - Only the largest healing spell in a ten round period will take effect. As far as having healing take longer here is a suggestion: Divide the number of points of damage in a wound by 3 rounding down. This is the number of long term points of damage for that wound. Healing spells cast on such a wound will take longer to heal these points. Long term damage points get healed as follows: 1st long term point comes back in 6 hours. 2nd long term point comes back in 12 hours. 3rd long term point comes back in 1 day. 4th long term point comes back in 2 days. 5th long term point comes back in 4 days. 6th long term point comes back in 8 days. 7th long term point comes back in 16 days. Example 1: Bob takes 6 points of damage to the arm. 6 / 3 = 2 long term damage points Joe cast healing 6 on Bob's arm. 4 points get healed immediately 1 more point is healed after 6 hours 1 more point is healed after 6 more hours Example 2: Joe takes 9 points of damage to the leg. 9 / 3 = 3 long term damage points Bob cast healing 6 on Joe's leg. 4 points get healed immediately 23 rounds later Joe casts healing 3 on his leg. 2 more points get healed immediately 1 more point is healed after 6 hours 1 more point is healed after 6 more hours 1 more point is healed after 12 more hours I have not tested this. I just thought it up as a possible solution to Greg Stafford's suggesting that wounds should hurt more and take longer to heal in Glorantha. Personally I think this is probably more paper work then it is worth. I guess my vote is for RQlite. If anyone does decide to try this I would like to hear how it works. jarec@cix.compulink.co.uk (Simon Basham) writes: > Also I don't know if anyone uses this but I force people performing magical > Healing on other to make a POW vs. POW roll. I can't remember if this is > by the book or not but it sure places a new slant on things. We do this only if the spell is not accepted. Basically any time you are casting a spell on a vessel(body, sword, etc.) with a spirit in it. The spirit has the option of resisting. If it decides to resist then you must succeed in a pow vs. pow roll. Rob Mace --------------------- From: justin_cann@netmail.washcoll.edu (Justin Cann) Subject: Other RuneQuest Worlds Message-ID: <9308182239.AA21593@martha.washcoll.edu> Date: 18 Aug 93 00:17:33 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1418 Reply to: Other RuneQuest Worlds In the Daily of the 18th, Donald Wilton mentioned starting another RQ mailing list, but for (it ould appear) _his_ world. I have long used RuneQuest as the rule system for my campaign world of five or six years. I have plenty of information in files on my computer. I would be glad to contribute to an idea like this, but it might be better to keep it open to all non-glorantha worlds. Between the high cost of Glorantha supplements (just try to find the out of print things!) and my natural inclination to create my own campaign world, I have altered the standard RQ rules a bit to reflect my world. For example, not all characters have the ability to use magic. NPCs must roll less than their Magic Modifier on d100 and PCs get Magic Modifier x 5. There's more, but that's the sort of things I've done. However, my world, since it was primarily designed within the RQ system, still reflects RQ's unique style, especially with regard to magic, which is usually the most distinct difference between role-playing games. I found that shaman, priests and the occasional sorcerer fit in perfectly, as opposed to "magic-users and clerics". RQ allows characters to fit different cultures better. On another note, does anyone have any interest in assembling a group of NPCs of varying abilities and skill levels and passing them around? Sort of a net-"Rouges Gallery" for RQ? If so, contact me.