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Also, much of the info from the monograph is freely available online at the Cthulhu Rising website, including a number of scenarios and other additional material, plus forums etc. Well worth a look IMO. Cheers, NDM

Really? I'm really not bothered whether you like percentile skills or not - but I really don't think it's reasonable to mislead people about how the RQIII skill system works, and "an expert potter botches 25% of all the pots he makes" is simply NOT how the rules as written work. Regards, NDM

Players Book, Page 71: "While an adventurer successfully performs routine actions, in stress situations your gamemaster may call for skill rolls to see if the adventurer can use a specific skill to perform a particular activity" (my emphasis). Same page: "...the success percentage for a skill...

First, we seem to have somewhat lost track of the OP's actual question. Second, despite what some people seem to think, one's personal dislike of a feature of a rules system does NOT generalise to that system being broken. Likewise, that a given system handles things in a particular fashion...

Pretty much complete - only thing missing IIRC was the Gamemastering chapter, everything else was pretty much there (Creatures, Glorantha intro chapter, thre magic systems, skills, combat, character gen etc). My memory is that it was copyright 1993 - which makes it earlier than the far less...

I've seen a version of the Chaosium/AH revision of RQIII entitled RQIV:Adventures in Glorantha that is an entirely playable game - but that never made it to publication... Cheers, NDM

:lol: Oh dear. Perhaps they should just get someone to design a sheet FOR them, if the two efforts so far are the best they can manage? Or just adopt Malakor's? Cheers, NDM NDM

:shock: Ye Gods, even by Mongooses' lamentably low standards that is awfully ugly - and even if the grey boxes were fixed, you'd still have a far too heavy watermark creating graphical noise underneath the entries. Hmm. Perhaps Mongoose should have take the Margaret Weiss Productions /...

IIRC correctly, like a lot of the more radical notions in the early lytest drafts the open playtest group, it appeared to have been "shoved" in with no particular thought as to its wider implications (or conflicts with other subsystems) and when objections were raised, rather than work through...

d20 Thieves' World already done Cheers, NDM

I prefer Sheelba and Ning to be extra-dimensional beings - it side steps their magic having to fit the same scale and parameters as Nehwonian Magicians (which it often doesn't). It's a while since I re-read the books, but from memory there are "spells" that take combat rounds to cast, rather...

An aside, to supply some facts, as opposed to speculation: Since the Wizard's Attic implosion and the truncation of efforts on the Dragon Lords of Melnibone d20 line, Chaosium have also published two Eternal Champion monographs: Gods of Chaos (in 2004) and, more recently with Darcsyde and...

In HerQuest certainly, in RuneQuest they were usually the scruffy, disreputable types who guard the heroes horses and loot the bodies after the heroes have left: "the little guys on society's underside, scrabbling to maintain a meager subsistence-level ecology. RQ PCs live close to the bone" to...

These were features for me. The ubiquitous minor magic represented good luck charms, minor prayers - after I started Steel Weapon re-enacting I always imagined that moment when medieval soldiers kissed the soil before commencing battle as being casting Vigor, and invoking a Saint over your...

Where as for many RQ fans, Glorantha is frankly a footnote, as we used the rules in our own settings... Speaking as some one involved in the open playtest, I have no idea what the current rules are like: the last iteration we saw was a long way from finished, had promise, but WASN'T an...