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yeah, they are different historical periods basically. The 2nd age is more epic I suppose you could say. Two great empires in conflict, both trying to reshape the world to their views. 3rd age is one empire in conflict with those it is absorbing. A bit more localized. Maybe a bit more grey...

yeah, there'll be a few differences but they are minor. You'll need to add Resilience skill ratings and such but thats easy enough

For skills, I just assign an overall skill rating and extrapolate stat stuff as needed. f.x. "guard 50%" If he's rolling stuff that isn't quite guard related, do it at -20 By and large, I prefer having players roll, than having NPCs roll, but MRQ2 does expect a lot of opposed rolls.

Most fights are fairly few rounds. Having extra dice can be handy, if your players aren't keen on keeping track of stuff in their head. Just use two sets with different colours.

The original "Glorantha 2nd age" book did a marvelous job at explaining a lot of "what do these people do, and why would I work for them?" stuff. I hope thats the case for the new book as well.

Well, a lot of games can be played with a lot less stuff. But yes, the pile of stuff I drag to our Rolemaster game is pretty big :) Character law, arms law, spell law, companions 1-4, arms companion, monsters&treasure (or whatever its called) and War law. Yikes.

Thanks! To everyone as well :)

Im not sure how C&C handles it but my general rules of thumb (and I am rather interested in a horse&musket era RQ game): Damage is high but not insanely so. (poor propellant but a big soft lead ball does bad things to you) Slow reload times obviously. Once skill reaches 75%, reload times drop...

This will probably be a fairly straight forward Dragon pass romp. So mostly I just need whatever stuff covers the Orlanthi cults, and any special options for them with regard to professions and such. Or maybe a re-run of an old 3rd edition duck campaign we did :D

Skill ratings and such should translate pretty much as is (for the older percentile game). If its the later version where they used a D20 roll under, just multiply skills by 5. THey had heroic abilities that might be good inspiration for same in MRQ. The magic system was a bit unique (but...

So it looks like we'll be doing MRQ2 soon. Other than the new 2nd age Glorantha book, are there any other "essentials" for a fairly basic Gloranthan game? I imagine there's a Cult book as well? What about dragon magic stuff's ? Cheers!

You are right on the book keeping. I do sort of like it being by action, as it reigns in the people using shields a bit. A big chunk of wood and steel is pretty tiring to haul around. But we'll try it out and see how it goes. Most combats don't last all that long anyways :)

I'd say it depends on how often you play, and how often you give out improvement rolls. As written, the game seems like it definately assumes a very long term campaign, so if that isn;t the case for you, you'll want to reduce it slightly.

Apologies if these has been covered elsewhere If there are official answers,those are appreciated, but even if not, I'd love to hear how people have tackled it for their own games Fatigue: Page 61 specifies that for heavy activity (sprinting, fighting) you have to test after a number of...

Definately Glorantha, but historical games and historical fantasy are definate options too.