The Cults of Glorantha preview looks very promising! I do have a question: is Buserian really associated with the Air rune? I would have expected the Sky rune instead.

(By the way, there is a typo in the preview: pg.19, cult of Buserian, Special Benefits: Initiates of Busarian...).

Nitpik: This Mistress Race troll that repeatedly bears trollkin... Robin Laws replied about this issue in his blog http://robin-d-laws.livejournal.com/161588.html : (WARNING: spoiler!!!) In a side note, questions have been raised about one of the characters described in the piece, a mistress race t...

Rurik wrote: Where exactly are the soft fleshy spots on Gargoyles?

Perhaps the eyes?

Out of curiosity, how would you rate some of the past releases? For me: A+ Cults of Prax, RQ2 Trollpak A Pavis/Big Rubble/Borderlands A- Dorastor B+ Sun County/Shadows/RoC B Thunder Rebels (HQ) C+ Storm Tribe (HQ) C Sartar Rising campaign books (HQ) D Judge's Guild RQ suppliments A+ RQ2 Trollpak, G...

GbajiTheDeceiver wrote:

Don Allen wrote:You don't use the halfing rule during combat? Why not? It says dodging etc is an opposed roll vs. attackers weapon skill.

Check out the players guide PDF, it explains all.

Here is the link: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/r ... sguide.pdf

I am voting for (or against?) the HackMaster gnomelings: a cross between gnomes and halflings, gaah

Matt Sprange is interviewed by Shannon Appelcline about RuneQuest on RPGnet: http://www.rpg.net/columns/interviews/i ... ws14.phtml

There is also an interview of Greg Stafford about Glorantha, including the Second Age: http://www.rpg.net/columns/interviews/i ... ws13.phtml

We cannot have halflings in RQ, because we duck them

Thank you, Malakor I will certainly use it!

YES

2.) Critical Damage This is partly "opinion", but I would say this is broken. The fact that Criticals do not ignore armour and only cause maximum damage (rather than double) makes them more or less redundant - in combat. You may be right on this, but I think that the critical hits must be assessed ...

Rurik wrote:I thought Sorcery was the best part of RQ3 myself, not too complicated and made a lot of sense for a magic system.

I only thought that I was the only person in this world to enjoy the RQ3 sorcery rules. Not so, apparently I do hope they are kept largely the same in the MRQ Companion.