Recent content by mallard

Darran, The reason some of us are getting annoyed at your posts is because you keep making absurd statements like the one above. I don't know of any dungeon product that is just a "map of 10'x10' rooms ..." Snake Pipe Hollow (the closest Chaosium came to making a megadungeon) is not just a...

Good Points! I especially like your ideas of offering incentives to game stores that host MRQ2 games in their stores.. I believe that once people play MRQ2 or even the older versions of RQ they will be hooked. I think the underlying point is that we need to evangelize this game. We need to...

languagegeek, I don't think your statement about Glorantha is unfair or ignorant. Glorantha is a great world but the learning curve is steep and sometimes us old-timers forget that. However, I was impressed by the excellent job Mongoose did in explaining Glorantha to newcomers in the...

I will help with this project. However, I play old RQ2 and I do not yet have a copy of the MRQ2 rules.

Darran, I am glad you figured out how to post a poll on these forums but your poll is biased. No one is suggesting a megadungeon that is noting more than "A sprawling mass of rooms and levels filled with monsters [that seem not to eat each other] that would grind the PCs towards multiple TPKs"...

Rasta, If semantics is the problem lets call the megadungeon an epic scenario to distinguish it from the run of the mill RQ scenario.

Phil, True, but their haven't been a lot of large dungeons published for RQ so the idea is not played out or boring.

Agreed. That is why an RQ megadungeon would only be suitable for powerful characters. Snake Pipe Hollow, Dorastor and the Cradle scenario were also designed for powerful characters so there is a precedent for high powered scenarios. No one in my group has died in my God Learner ruin so far...

What conventions will you be attending in the next year?

I am in California but I have a very good buddy from HS that lives in Seattle. We used to Skype him in on our RQ games but he recently bought a resturant and is too busy to play now. Me and most of my gaming group flew up to see him and play games at ConQuest NW 2009 and 2010.

I think the best way to attract new players to RQ and other D100 games is to run games at conventions. I was surprised that my RQ2 game was the only D100 fantasy game at ConQuest NW in Seattle, WA and ConQuest Sacramento. Furthermore, there is only one BRP game listed at the Pacificon Game Expo...

I don't think adventuring in a megadungeon is any more silly than adventuring in a giant floating baby cradle and the cradle scenario is considered one of the best scenarios ever written for RQ.

You can get pdf copies of all 4 of the Gloranthan Classics books in a bundle for only $60.00. That's over 1200 pages of Gloranthan goodness that is searchable and allows you to cut and paste the information into your scenarios, player handouts or whatever.

Loz, Thanks. Your a good dude. P.S. I just found out that Classic Fantasy is the best selling supplement for BRP. This shows the popularity of the retro movement even among the D100 crowd.

Good Point. I think that only about 1/3 of a dungeon should be inhabited. The rest should be tricks, traps, or just well described empty areas. My God Learner ruin is a dungeon consisting of 4 concentric circular levels which is filled with weird god learner experiments and other stuff...