Recent content by waiwode

Wow. Yes, that would have changed things quite a bit! Too bad for this week's session that I missed that. Doug.

That's part of it. The other part is that 100 men throwing javelins at 50 men only do 1D6 damage (although with a bonus to hit for outnumbering their opponents) while the 50 men also do 1D6 damage. Now, with everything else being equal, the 50 men will break and run first ... possibly still 50...

My players and I are veterans of L5R. If anything, not trying to modify it's battle system (which is a lot more number intensive in 3rd e) was part of two efforts on my part: 1) To use the rules I'm given before I start house ruling. After all, having just started playing RQ again late this...

Strangely, no. Smaller units would basically evaporate, even when facing a similar small unit. I think the problem was the units I used were too big. The system seems to work better for units of 20 to 50 rather than 50 - 100 or larger. The biggest problem was basically one of scale. First you...

Yes, I did have seperate things for my players to do ... but they followed the usual RuneQuest rules for things like combat and magic, and I had no problem with that. :) However, as the big event was an assassination attempt by one of the PC Commander's flunkies who had been bribed by an allied...

The following is a brief summary, not actual rules. In theory Morale in these rules is more like the unit's "Stay in the Fight" hit points. Every time they take damage they take an equal hit to morale. Every time they fail a command check (from trying "fancy" commands) they lose 2d6 morale -...

It looked good. But I honestly didn't enjoy it's execution at all. Perhaps my biggest problem was that I didn't use it for skirmishes between bands of one to two dozen but for groups closer to hundreds. It looked to be a system where the "morale grind" became a bigger factor than the injuries...

Well, matrix, imbedded, and bound spirit items were always pretty common. And what beginning Sorceror didn't try to pull in and bind an Int 5 Spirit (for the Free Int) and a Pow 5 Spirit (for fuel, and to offset the POW loss of binding the two spirits)?

Except it isn't. Every cultist (and everybody was a cultist) had some spirit magic (or sorcery) in RQ3. Everyone you met, walking down the street, served their god(s), and had some spirit magic. Although for redsmiths, artisans, and farmers Repair, Glue, and the various utility spells were...

I got one too! Ten seconds later and they were gone. Doug.

I think to really integrate RuneQuest text with rules crunch, Broo shouldn't ever have been contagious as such. After all, contagion doesn't actually exist in Glorantha. Instead, every small pack of Broo should have been accompanied by one or more (1D3? or 2D2-1 for those who treasure complex...

Honestly, I'm going to figure out Crit chances before combat begins. Then they're fixed. Static. Unmoving. I'm not going to be juggling numbers all over the place once combat begins. So after your Heroquesting Runelord with (weapon) 112% character defeats the 30% Trollkin, and then tries to...

Here's how I would do it. Now, I'm flying blind here, as there are all kinds of rules and forms of magic I'm unaware of. Warrens are extra-planar in some way. Some have a physical realm (the Imperial Warren, Meanas) while some (Mokra) apparently have no physical realm. First, some Runes need...

That is a really nice sheet. Good job Archer. :) Now can you leave some spaces for my house rules? :) Doug.

Ick! Another player's and my characters just fought off Harn3e infections this weekend. (I was pretty good, one day at H5 and then H6 and I was clear, but he was H4 - H3 - H4 - H5 - H4 - H5 - and H6 to be clear). Doug.