Recent content by smiorgan

Legend. Just like RQII but with with less runes and more boobies! Not a great cover in all honesty. I like the price though and I'm certainly getting the vikings reprint when it comes out. Smiorgan

Nice session writeup. I have Sailing on the Seas of Fate, and it made me want to run that scenario. Melnibonean battle barges are cool! Did you do any conversion beforehand from Elric! to RQII rules with the stats and magic in the scenario or you just improvised as you went along? As for new...

Slivikin rocks - the little bastard. Rules for familiars would be quite fitting the setting. In fact, there were many holes in the magic department in the old book. For one, I don't like the approach used for hedge wizards. They are basically treated as fortune tellers, who might or might not...

Being the Lankhmar completist that I am, I had already ordered it. Certainly what you say about the maps and the book in general is a bit of a letdown. LOL! I knew very well that fan made mapo on the net. When I realised that the map "artist" of the MRQ book had copied that I had a good laugh...

The review is encouraging I'm really tempted by this one. But the reviewer did not know Lankhmar's previous RQ incarantion. Does anyone know how it compares to the previous version in terms of content?

OpenQuest is to RuneQuest what Castles & Crusades is to D&D. And I mean that as a big compliment. Smiorgan

Thanks. Very interesting range of characters. I plan to use them not only as NPCs but also as pregen PCs for one shot games. Smiorgan

That would be awesome. Thanks. S.

I can't find the sample 200 pregens anymore. They were cool. Are you going to upload them again?

The question is complex... I will give several answers... Preamble: I'm not a big fan of the d20 system, so that's probably why I don't clamor for adaptations of any game to that system. That said: 1) Dragon Lords of Melniboné (Elric d20) - which I own - was probably one of the worst products...

Oh that's interesting. Do you have any kind of evidence that RQ isn't selling well and that it has to do with BRP or it's pure speculation? I'm honestly curious, I'm not trying to make any point in the RQ vs OGL Conan discussion. My admittedly speculative and impressionistic view is that BRP...

Great news! :D

I watched the John Milius movie with Arnie last night. Not authentic Howard, but great stuff, anyway. Great dialogues. RQ Conan is something that must happen. But let them first re-launch the excellent Lankhmar setting.

I mostly agree with you. Most of the fluff is well written and evocative, even the synopses of the stories are useful for GMs - but I would read the stories, anyway. It is just SOME fluff that is superfluous. I mean stuff like 1 full page on the "Mariner" background, which basically does not...

It's good to know that the new Lankhmar book will include new content. I hope the author reads this thread... The old books weren't bad, but they were low on crunch and a tad bloated in the fluff department. There are plenty of places where to cut to make room for new content, especially in...