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From: cnh@windom.stortek.com (Clark Hobbie)
Subject: Re: request for comments, etc. on RuneQuest & AH
Message-ID: <9407112311.AA02535@windom.stortek.com>
Date: 11 Jul 94 23:11:16 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5114
Joe,
I would suggest the following:
Scenarios
Put out as many high quality scenarios as possible. For example, I
thought that "Shadows on the Borderlands" was a very good scenario
pack. When I want to GM, I want something that I can pick up and use
almost immediately, not something like the Dorastor pack where you have
to put together your own scenarios from the background material
presented.
If you want to get really ambitious I would suggest something along the
lines of the old Griffin Mountain RQ2 scenario pack --- lots of
background, but some very playable scenarios more or less ready to go.
Before doing that, however, I would suggest more stuff along the lines
of Borderlands.
Rules rewrite
Second on my wish list is a rewrite of the RQ3 rules. Personally I
would like to see RQ3 scrapped and a return to the simpler, gentler
days of RQ2. Some of the things I would like to see changed:
o Get rid of fatigue
o Make Rune Magic at least (if not more) powerful than Sorcery
and Spirit magic
o Prehaps returning the limits on Spirit Magic from RQ2 --- 4
points max protection from Countermagic, Protection, etc.
Allowing people to cast Protection 12 makes Shield a lot less
attractive.
HeroQuest
Round up Greg and lock him in a cell with only bread and water until he
finishes this. 15+ years is far too long to wait for the sequal to
RQ. Some of the ideas that have been bouncing around on the net make
it sound like it would be really interesting but Greg has to finish the
damn thing instead of churning out books like King of Sartar and the
Glorious Reascent of Yelm what are of far less value IMHO. I would
almost like to see this before a rules rewrite --- and I would cerainly
rather see this than a rewrite that does not overhaul the magic
system.
Background material
Stuff like Elder Secrets, the Glorantha boxed set etc. This stuff is
nice, but of far less immediate use than any of the above suggestions.
And now for some questions of my own:
RQ today
What is the situation w.r.t. how RuneQuest is currently selling. I
have talked to a couple of store owners and they said that it was
difficult to find a distributor that is willing to carry any RQ stuff.
>From where you are standing is that what you are seeing? If so, what
do you think the problem is?
RQ releases
What happend to the momentum that seemed to be building w.r.t. to RQ
last year? A number of very nice scenarios and background material
were released and then everything seemed to stop.
RQ's future
Are there any more releases planned for RQ in the near (6 month)
future? Do you expect Greg to every get off his butt and finish
HeroQuest?
Hope this helps,
Clark Hobbie
clark_hobbie@stortek.com
> From: AHRPG@aol.com
> Subject: Tell Avalon Hill your secrets!
> Message-ID: <9407081001.tn149490@aol.com>
> Date: 8 Jul 94 14:01:37 GMT
> X-RQ-ID: 5077
>
> Or at least tell me. This message is from Joseph Scott, the new guy at
> Avalon Hill who will be overseeing RuneQuest. I've been reading the daily as
> best I can, but I am limited by time - I just can't get through the whole
> thing every day.
>
> However, I'm very interested in what actual RQ players think - so please
> consider answering my standard questions:
>
> - who are your favorite RQ authors?
> - do you play an exclusively Gloranthan campaign?
> - what sort of supplements would you like to see?
>
> Please E-Mail your responses to me at "AH RPG@AOL.COM" - if they're posted on
> the Daily, I'll almost certainly miss them.
>
> I invite communication of all sorts - please ask me questions other than the
> ones I've listed above.
>
> Soon (hopefully very soon) there will be new submissions guidelines for RQ
> materials, which I will have to post somewhere that Daily users can get at
> it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joe Scott
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From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Re: RuneQuest Daily, Mon, 11 Jul 1994, part 1
Message-ID: <01HEMCSRLIN6985IRO@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 12 Jul 94 23:37:26 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5115
G'day henk,
Not sure if you got my last message as the Digests kept a-comin'. Please
UNSUB - mobtotrm@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
so my mail box doesn't explode while I'm away. I'll renew after July
26th, unless you can do that automatically.
See some of you at Convulsion in a week, the rest of you etherially
on the net next month!
Cheers
MOB
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From: 100270.337@compuserve.com (Nick Brooke)
Subject: Syranthir of Jorri
Message-ID: <940712065701_100270.337_BHL63-2@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 94 06:57:01 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5116
_____________
Jim enquired:
> A quick question that maybe Mark Sabulaskas, Mike or Nick Brooke could
> answer. In the Timeline for Fronela there are two entries for Syranthir,
> one in 719 - Syranthir of Jorri and one in 725 - Syranthir Forefront.
> Are these two different Syranthirs or the same person?
I'm not that perverse. He's the same person. By 725, he had fought at the
forefront enough for it to become memorable...
I learned he was from Jorri when I looked at the etymology of "Jhor", one
of the regions of Carmania. He named it for his homeland: first place the
Army of Ten Thousand was granted to settle in.
I'm looking forward to seeing that article for myself, when Mike brings
copies of Codex #2 over for Convulsion. All my last-minute preps are going
well (touch wood, fingers crossed, Goddess willing, etc.).
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Nick
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