As for myself, I let players dedicate as many POW as their cult rank (usually Initiate) allows them to.

Nice work! I admire your mathfu. However, there appears to be a problem at low skill ranks. A character with a novice competency has a skill range up to 25 (equivalent to base skill) without any skill ranks being added in. So in D20, a base level of training of 1 - 4 ranks would equate to a skill r...

RQ2 competency Skill Range (%) D20 Skill Ranks D20 competency Novice 01 – 25 1 – 4 Basic level of training, familiarity Competent 26 – 50 5 – 8 Professional level, primary skill for job Professional 51 – 75 5 – 8 " Expert 76 – 100 9 – 12 Expert and recognised as such Master 101 – 125 13 – 15 Virtua...

That's a sad news for RuneQuest

Nevertheless, I wish you the best in your new life, to you and your family

In fact, RuneQuest trolls are a completely different species from DnD trolls, Tolkien trolls, scandinavian trolls or any other "trolls". To make short, the most common trolls are humanoïd creatures, bigger and stronger than humans but in no way less intelligent, though their civilisation may seem pr...

One minor nitpick : Charlemagne died in 814, and not in 810.

Though I understand why a Deities & Demigod supplement is not necessarily a good thing, I think a collection of sample cults (especially divine cults) would be a good idea. For instance, what are the cult skills, divine and common magic for : -Air deity; -Death deity; -Sea deity; -Sun deity; -War de...

In RQ3, there was a list of Divine Magic spells available to all cults.
Almost half the list in the core rulebook was in this list.

I think it would be a good thing to do so for MRQII.

I've located my files too

Long term: I'm starting to think the bonus CA isn't actually a good rule. Generally any rule which no-one plays the same is probably not a good rule. I'm tempted to ditch it and revise riposte to say that if you riposte it has to be with a different weapon than the one that parried and your opponen...

... Thus for campaigns where the players want to join cults and wield Divine Magic, the authors suggests purchasing Cults of Glorantha and adapting the gods of the Orlanthi pantheon to their Viking equivalents... " That answers it exactly. Thanks. Are there roughly equivalent gods from the Orlanthi...

Could these be the shaman rules I've heard about on BRP Central? If so, I would love a copy if possible. Ian I think I said a word on BRP Central about the existence of those rules :D I read it a long time ago, and didn't pay it the same attention level than sorcery or rituals... I used to have it ...

As for myself, I have 2 files on my computer: -sorcery.doc (copyright 1998 -so I guess PhilHibb's version is newer) -rituals.doc I may also have on another computer 4 other files: -shaman.doc -saints.doc -mystics.doc (not sure of the name) -grimoire.doc As far as I remember, I found all those files ...

Thank you ! Those rules, even if a bit difficult to understand, are a masterpiece. Nevertheless, I notice you changed the rituals rules at some place to introduce random values instead of Intensity. I prefer Sandy Petersen's original. For instance, in the version I have, Magic Point Matrix reads : M...

alex_greene wrote:"enemy" from "anhomie" (French)

Minor nitpick : I think it comes from "ennemi"

Personally, I plan on using the following rules :

-Sorcerers, Witches and other professional users of Sorcery gets 1 Grimoire skill, Manipulation and 4 free spells;
-When learning a Grimoire skill, one gets a free spell from that Grimoire;
-Other spells can be learned at the expense of 10% per spell.

Making dodge part of a combat style has me intrigued, I was thinking about it this way... as it stands there's no mechanical reason to take a 1H-only skill: shield and dual-weapons give an extra CA, and 2H gives better damage. So why take 1H? As far as I remember, some cultural backgrounds have 1H ...

3) sorcery looks cool however (there is always a however lurking somewhere) how many spells do a sorc start with in his grimore?? Can he add more? Actually, a "Grimoire" in MRQII terms is not a D&D-style book in which a magic-user writes the spell he learned. It is a complete book written by other ...

Exactly. This way you can probably dodge a big, clumsy troll with a maul but it would be distinctly risky against a skilled swordmaster. I personally would only allow it with light, 1h weapons. People have occasionally commented on the weakness of 1H fighting skills so this would give a different o...

...although a style with dodge as its defensive half instead of parry gets the advantage that you don't have to worry about weapon sized. So maybe dodge is overpowered in this respect? Was this a deliberate design decision, to deprecate dodge because it is better than parry? If you treat attack vs ...