Bell Digest v931118p2

From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 18 Nov 1993, part 2
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From: ddunham@radiomail.net (David Dunham  , via RadioMail)
Subject: shield; Sunspear; etc.
Message-ID: <199311171751.AA09460@radiomail.net>
Date: 17 Nov 93 17:51:17 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2360

>From: f6ri@midway.uchicago.edu (charles gregory fried)
>I allow a players to make a 'general' shield parry roll instead of trying to
>parry a single attack.  If this roll succeeds, the shield then covers the
>appropriate areas during that round, adding its AP to those areas. 

What's the tradeoff vs making a normal parry?

>From: sandyp@idcube.idsoftware.com (Sandy Petersen)
>armament of ancient armies, while interesting and often enlightening,  
>said little about how a PC should outfit himself.

I've always felt this to be true, too.

>The intent when Sunspear was written up was that ALL magic is  
>ineffective vs. Sunspear. It's a very special spell, and ignores all  
>them things you mentioned. Perhaps magic designed specially for use  
>vs. fire/sky spells might have an effect (like Suppress Aether), if  
>the GM decides. 

This kind of destroys the premise of Griffin Island. Wouldn't Hilme priest
Taklong Woodheart have long ago hit the evil sorcerer Halcyon var Enkorth
with a big Sunspear?

>The Law Rune wasn't in RQ2. It is not a common Theyalan Rune

But it's one of Lhankor Mhy's runes... Orlanth's Lawspeaker isn't _that_
uncommon...

>side  
>effects of magic ecology (like the way the Lunars are gradually  
>ruining their crops)

How are the Lunars ruining their crops? They worship Dendara, don't they?

>From: WALLMAN@VAX2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (Personal friend of Little Elvis)
>Does Wintertop in Dragon Pass block the moon from those who are behind it?
>It is really tall (12 km)

It's not that tall, only 4000 ft above the sea [King of Sartar p.184].


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From: staats@MIT.EDU (Richard C. Staats)
Subject: Boggles? who fight chaos
Message-ID: <9311171918.AA13459@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 93 13:15:56 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2361

Please forgive my ignorance, but what type of creature is a boggle?
(It is not like a boggle in Toon is it?  "I'll take out that dread 
Walktapi!  Give me a cream pie!  It'll never know what hit it!")

:-)

Just curious,

Rich

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From: eosgg@raesp-farn.mod.uk (Geoff Gunner)
Subject: Unhelpful players
Message-ID: <9311172052.AA11002@raesp-farn.mod.uk>
Date: 17 Nov 93 20:52:26 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2362

A groan I have to get off my chest, and which may strike similar feelings from
all referees out there.

The players are settling a cursed valley, and not doing too bad a job.  There
WAS a Jack-o-bear that wandered through (with lots of stolen plate and chain
armour, and a great sword - quite needless, as the entire party got harmonised.
It was nearly bye-bye time, when the desperate pleadings of Halgrim the Humakti
came to the ears of the local spirit of the Valley.  One frigid blast of air
later, and the jack is being blown away in a VERY bad frame of mind ("I'll be
back ...") ).

Anyway - scene set.  One night, in the crimson light from the half moon, a
guttural croaking from up-valley rouses the watchers.  Armour on, out to
the half-built stockade wall, and ... in crawls a Wyrm.  Not your everyday
Wyrm, this beastie was over 400 years old, riddled with evil, more tricks
up it's sleeve than a Mississippi gambling boat, responsible for more terror,
more ... well, you get the drift.  I'd even exerted my limited artistic talent
to the full, to show them what they'd be eaten by (this thing did a monstrous
1D10 + 6D6 damage).  A most heinous monster, which SHOULD have been met by
wild panicking and runnings-away.  And did the party run away ?

NO.  Halgrim the miserable, no-good, low-down neo-prophet runs in heroically,
criticals the thing to the chest with his great-sword delivering 25-odd points
of damage. Shriek-writhe-screech-thwump.  The only damage was from a coil of
the thing smacking across the Uroxi's leg in it's death-throes.
I mean, this is before ANYONE has a chance to do anything.  My beautiful wyrm.
Irreverently killed.  Without even one person getting swallowed.  I had to
choke back a tear.  It's things like this that make me want to throw in the
towel.   I had plans for that wyrm ... horrible plans involving bloodshed,
slaughter, mayhem, possibly even ducks.  All ruined.

I'll get that bugger Halgrim yet, just see if I don't ...

Geoff.

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From: cnh@windom.stortek.com (Clark Hobbie-x7513)
Subject: Why is RQ so hard to find?
Message-ID: <9311180009.AA18579@windom.stortek.com>
Date: 18 Nov 93 00:09:58 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2363


I have been talking with a couple of games store owners and have gotten
a conflicting picture of what the RuneQuest scene is like these days.
One owner told me that it was very difficult to get copies of RQ at
all.  He said that most distributors did not want to carry it because
they felt that no one wanted to buy it.  The other owner that I talked
with said that he had no special difficulty finding RQ stuff.

I am looking for comments from other people's experience: have you
found it difficult to find RQ stuff.  If yes have you talked to store
owners and asked why?  If yes then was it because the owners did not
want to buy it, or because the distributors did not want to carry it?

In any case, I think we really need to focus on how to get RuneQuest
back into the stores.  If we do not, then no one will buy it.  If no
one buys RuneQuest then the game will die.

Clark
clark_hobbie@stortek.com


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