You can still do that with HQ2 (although it is unnecessary) - but such scales detail *your* Glorantha and are not necessarily portable to other games (which is frankly the way it ought to be).
Pete Nash and I have discussed this issue quite a bit for the forthcoming "Glorantha Bestiary" and ultimately we'd rather provide basic information on creatures such as - how big is it? How much does it weigh? How does it defend itself? How does it eat? And so on. Such information is more broadly useful than known a great troll tends to be SIZ 4D6+12 (what on earth is a point of SIZ?) or that a Jolanti has a Strong of 15W (compared to what? And what on earth does that mean?).
Then again, as I kid I used to collect Safari Animal Wildlife Cards and find they gave more useful information on creatures than any RPG supplement ever has.
Jeff
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