Recent content by Utgardloki

I try to discourage PCs from joining organizations that have opposing goals. Obviously if one player wants his PC to join the Judges and another player wans his PC to join the Bogeymen, there will be problems. I would strongly discourage that, possibly even forbidding it. On other hand...

I was thinking that the point of all I typed above is that guilds are creations of NPCs who have their own agendas. These NPCs, their personalities, agendas and political conflicts will determine, along with the applicable laws of the area, what the guilds do. For example, the Bogeymen...

I actually have not used guilds very much, and many times I've defined a guild but never actually got a chance to use it. Basically, a guild is like any other sort of resource. It's there in the world and if the players need to or want to interact with it they can, otherwise they know it is...

Me, I have hundreds of ideas. I'm just responding to ideas brought up in this thread with my own thoughts. To clarify my post quoted above, it's not that I was looking for a way to incorporate the gods in a science fiction campaign. It's that I was thinking that just because an interstellar...

I think you probably could do a setting on a world that is a ringworld as long as it is not in Larry Niven's Known Space, just as you can do a story with robots that follow the Three Laws of Robotics as long as you do not quote the Three Laws without permission. But I am not a copyright lawyer...

Has anybody given any thought to using anime themes in Runequest? My motivation is that it's been difficult to drum up interest in a 1970s "TV-Land" campaign, but perhaps a TV-Land/anime crossover might be interesting. Clashes of civilizations are always nice. The rule for the "Plausible...

I guess I get away with it because I make it clear, and the players understand, that this is a fantasy game, sometimes based on history, and nothing in the game is taken to be a statement of what really applies in the world. I've had a Jewish PC once and the only problem was that trying to get...

Apparently somebody has not been reading my threads about equating Amaterasu Omikami with the Greek goddess Rhea and defining Yahweh as the brother of Jupiter and incorporating a bunch of Mormon ideas into my mix. Not that I'm recommending it, but there's no reason why you can't do things like...

I've long been wanting to convert Privateer Presses The Witchfire Trilogy to Runequest. It is an adventure with lots of opportunities for role playing, dodging steamjacks, investigating mysteries, and thwarting awesome necromantic magic. You could either run it in a runequest version of the...

I can understand that attitude. Myself, I can't separate the cultures when what happens on one side of the world can affect things on the other. I apparently have a storyline where an obscure Middle Eastern Deity, a sun goddess of a distant island culture, and a major god of one of the most...

I think I would not be considering bhuddism a religion, for the purposes of my purposes. Bhuddism, as I understand it, does not entail belief or disbelief in any god or gods; it is a way of travelling one's path to enlightenment and escaping the cycle of rebirth and destruction, eventually...

I have not had the experience of playing Mongoose's incarnation of Runequest, but thinking about it, it looks like entry-level PCs in Runequest should have better odds of surviving than 1st level D&D PCs, IF the RQ PC is maximised for a good defense. Dungeons and Dragons has all characters...

Part of the problem might be the way that the DM is running the adventures. The Exalted game system is supposed to be one where the PCs start out as over-the-top even-more-superheroic than D&D PCs, and then get spectaculary better from there. But whenever I played Exalted, the PCs were always...

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Thank, Rasta. This helps a lot. I think that since I've knocked Yahweh down from being the Omnipotent Lord of the Universe to being merely one god among many, I need to do the same to Brahma. Perhaps Brahma is a Lemurian king who achieved a very high level of being who is emulated by the rest...