I think that in matters such as Strength or speed contest, both athletic skill and the characteristic should be used. For instance, you could state that in a armwrestling, the guy with the highest STR wins, but that STR must first be modified by an Athletic skill roll : Failure : apply stat/2 Succes...

I think I won't use the "Very High Skill" rule at all. I will certainly apply a mechanic allowing a character with skill above 100 to reduce his chance of success and his opponent's, maybe by a smaller amount, for instance 1/2 of the original handicap.

Turloigh wrote:He also wrote a draft of the Rune Magic system which, apparently, was NOT used for the final rulebook.

The final Rune Magic system does use Mr Perrin's Runic powers table and the idea of "integrating runes".

IMO rolling under your skill and gettting a critical if you roll 1/20th and a special if you rolled 1/5th is simpler, easier, and better. Rolling doubles is IMHO even better. I don't know why MRQ didn't choose to include this, maybe the designers felt that it would conjure comparisons with Unknown ...

The attack/parry matrix in the first draft-post-playtest version of the rules stated that a failed attack against a failed defense ended in a missed attack.
So that means the printed matrix is wrong while the draft one wasn't ?
Rather strange...

If the attacker Fails, and the defender Succeeds, attack succeeds but 2xAP of parrying weapon/shield is deducted from damage. How come that failed attack succeeds if parry succeeds? This sounds crazy. In the last draft version I got from playtest (dated from february), there is a conflict between t...

New Sorcery has split Multispell in Target and Combine skill, which is fine, but it does not use the new Sandy Petersen's rules. A pity, since they fit Glorantha better than this form of ruleset. I'm also a big fan of Sandy Petersen's sorcery rules, but I think those rules are too difficult to lear...