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further amendments to above rules: I just finished talking to a friend who is currently running MRQ. He made a few suggestions: Characters that have 4 attack actions get one free CA at any time during the round. Characters that dodge a blow have to move one space in the direction of the...

I have been thinking about this and I think I have come up with a solution that makes MRQ fairly similar to RQ3. Tell me what you think about it. DEX scores of 1-12 get two combat actions. Use Total Hit points (to calculate these take the average of Siz plus Con). Before an encounter begins...

This is an interesting concept. Now I am writing this as if an MRQ combat action is one round of RQ3. So, when I say the word ‘round,’ I mean one round in RQ3 and one CA in MRQ. Let me see if I understand this right. One action/reaction in MRQ equals one round in RQ3. This means that in MRQ...

Ha...the Clanking Ruins...that's great. I hadn't noticed that. :D

Sorry, in the example above, I said that in MRQ, a character with a DEX of 3 has 3 combat actions. I meant to say the character with a DEX of 13 always has 3 combat actions...sorry I should have proofread this a bit more carefully before I submitted it.

Rosen McStern put it much more eloquently than I did, here. What I have presented are some BASIC examples of why I think RQ3 combat more eloquent and intuitive and MRQ. These are not all of the issues, but they are the most basic ones I can think of. Strike Ranks RQ3 The melee round is...

I am not trying to avoid this question. However, I am tired, and it is not good for me to tackle it right now. I will try to respond to it in the next day or so...it is a fair question. The big basic difference is in the Strike rank system, but there are some other differences, too.

Yes, this is why what I said was unfair. Combatants act in SR order only if they have actions left...We still find that combat takes longer...perhaps because combat is more tactical...perhaps because we are just not used to the system.

By the way...to say that battle technically takes 10 times as long is an unfair statement. I should have qualified that. Actually battle seems to take us 3 times as long as it did with RQ3. A battle that would only take 30 minutes with RQ3 takes about 90 minutes for us now. In addition we...

I have played Runequest 2 in the early years and Runequest 3 for many, many years. I have played Mongoose Runequest recently with a group. Mongoose Runequest is different and plays different. Character creation is easier. However, character creation in Runequest 3 is very realistic. In...

I noticed on one thread that someone had a hard time identifying Hendrikiland and Esrolia on the Kethaela map on page 103 of Glorantha: the Second Age. The map is very beautiful, but the names used on the maps and the text do not agree. I believe that many newcomers to the game may be...

Thanks, everyone, for your comments. This has been a really helpful thread for me. It looks like I will be using MRQ and houseruling it from your suggestions and keeping some of the things I like from RQ3 system such as the Resistance Table, the Sorcery system, and the old spirit magic system...

Thanks for your input. Those of you who are houseruling, could you give me your houserules for combat? Or are they already posted on another thread? It seems to me if GMs are going to go to the trouble of making house rules for Mongoose RuneQuest, that they feel more comfortable with the...

I've still been looking through the Mongoose edition rules, and haven't yet actually run a game. I have formerly run the Basic Roleplaying system in different forms (Runequest, Stormbringer, Elric, and Call of Cthulu). I am wondering if someone who has run or played both systems can highlight...

I suppose its possible that I am not really talking to Greg.