Recent content by algauble

I was thinking of getting rid of strike rank/rolled initiative and dealing playing cards to everyone, one card for each CA (inspired by Savage Worlds). Then everyone acts from highest card to lowest. So you might get to take two or three CAs in a row occasionally, but it wouldn't be predictable...

Also, if I may ask a related question, what is the mechanic for activating a combat maneuver? Succeed by a certain margin? Beat opponent by a certain margin? Something else?

Do either of you (or anyone else who has it) care to share some details about any changes? Magic, combat system, etc.

I was shocked, dismayed, and disappointed to see Monsters II in softcover at my local game store the other day. Well, maybe that's overstating it, but I was surprised. Is this going to be common/universal for future MRQ books? Apologies, since I imagine this has been covered elsewhere; but this...

Is this something you're putting together for Mongoose? I remember there was once some talk about a possible MRQ Conan supplement, but I thought that it was abandoned.

You could have the pcs slaughter the fine fellows? They could be lunars? I like the spy idea as well.

I kinda like this idea, but I think you have way too many pseudo-characteristics, and I think the term 'pseudo-characteristic' sounds terrible (no offense, just giving an opinion). I'd suggest adding a single 'characteristic', maybe called Background, which could be used to buy Wealth...

Well, my real concern that got me thinking about fantasy economics lately, is whether or not I should adjust treasure values from the Moon Design reprints. Should I just treat a lunar and a silver piece as being equivalent? Then just out of curiosity, I started to compare some d20 prices with...

http://catalog.chaosium.com/index.php?cPath=39 Chaosium has all their old Stormbringer stuff on sale. What's worth getting if I'm not really interested in Elric?

Well, certainly, fun should be the most important thing. A lot of games have moved to abstract Wealth ratings and such, which keeps things quick and frees you from getting wrapped up in such details. But I think it's more satisfying to find gems worth 35 silver, or whatever. But I would also...

I was reading the preview for RQ Pirates (pdf here: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/rqpirates.pdf) and the use of Reputation (which I guess was introduced in the Companion) reminded me of some descriptions I've heard about the way Charisma would fluctuate in RQII. Now I haven't seen a copy...

Speaking of the range of incomes, does anyone know if the monetary system and prices were based on any kind of historic data? Are there any hard and fast guidelines for estimating how much something should cost and how that relates to the price of a sword or a night at the inn. I seem to...

Nice character sheet. I like it quite a bit better than the official ones. Edit: By the way, where are all the other homemade char. sheets?

I think for the latter system to work mathematically you have to add in the additional consideration of how far above 100 your skill is; that is, if you have a 120% skill, then 01 and 11 would be crits along with 10, 20, 30 etc, but not 21, 31, 41 etc. It's a little quirky, but without that...

Some kind of hybrid Traveller-SQ srd could have a lot of appeal, but would probably require a lot of work. RQ stat times 2/3 to get your Traveller stat? STR, CON, DEX and INT map readily to Traveller stats, but what to do with CHA, POW and SIZ? A more-RQ style skill list would be nice - CT was...