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Here's all the ones I could come up with. Cragspider and Isidilian the Wise (the Dwarf of Dwarf Run). Both of them have been around since the Dawn I think. Ironhoof was created by the EWF, right? Alakoring Dragonslayer obviously. The Only Old One, though he's under the thumb of the EWF...

Doh! Flintnail and Isidilian are the same person? Seriously? Is that official? I never made that connection before.

Err, you can't actually have been younger, can you? Add me to the list of people who've been playing RQ longer than you've been breathing. On the upside, from your blog, you seem to be a good choice for the job. Looking forward to seeing what you've come up with.

Exactly. They stop being your dumb hick cousin who you want to have at your back in a bar fight and start being a little brown-shirty. I do love that Orlanthi society takes care of it's sociopaths by encouraging them to be stone-drunk most of the time and suicidally fanatic against unkillable...

Aww, give them a little credit. A Storm Khan's logic wouldn't have gone much farther than: "Me no like little man. Me kill." All this lock and key nosense would be way, way over his head. Most Storm Khans are like walking Occum's Razors. The simplest solution, etc. "Me find door. Me...

Far from it. In fact, it can often be quite worse. My Death Sword can get well over 400%. 193x2 = 386 when Berserk. Bladesharp 8 is +40%. So that's 426. If it's only -40% to autocrit... err... die now, kthnx, bye. He can pretty much autokill a couple people a round. That being said...

Yep. I've run or played in 5 major RQ campaigns over the last 30 (OMG) years. I have one character that moved between a few of them and his best skill is at 193% (Greatsword attack). And he's a Humakti, so he's especially long lived. Offsetting that, he also had something like +30% skill...

I was thinking that a fun Second Age campaign would be playing guys whose job it is to hunt down and kill the God Learners. Or playing God Learners desperately trying to outrace the Closing in order to preserve their knowledge and further their research.

Pretty sure Barbarian basically means "People who say Bar-bar-bar." Back on topic, I voted "Something Else." I'd love to see GRR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice as a setting. That, or Tekamul.

Very nice. I could definitely see myself using this.

Yeah but how is Harrak's 50AP bid with his 5W10 Bersek Combat ability different from Jar-Eel's 50AP bid with her 5W10 Scimitar Fighting ability? How is his +10 Augment with his Bad Ass Killer skill different from her +10 Augment from her Moonsword? Does it matter if I defend with my Artful...

Well, HW didn't really have thousands of cults. What it had was 4-5 subcults per good old RQ1-3 god. And it provided decent write-ups for some gods RQ never got around to (Ernalda, Vinga, Yinkin, the Sartarite Hunter God, Valind, etc) These gods were always there and mentioned, but they never...

First thing I'll probably do is convert the disgusting Humakti Death Sword monstrosity I've been playing for 25 years and see if he breaks the system. :twisted:

I have to agree with you there. I hate the HW/HQ mechanics, mostly. (I do like the idea of augmenting one skill with another though.) But my gaming group just started playing a modified version of RQ3 again, so I've been spending the past month converting every single magical feat in Storm...

I would love to see this myself. I love 3rd Age Glorantha and I'm a little leary of the Imperial Age stuff. Hopefully it will be just as cool and full of opportunities for adventure as Sartar circa 1618.