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CharlieMonster said:Unfortunately for them Glorantha was one of the biggest reasons people bought RQ and I suspect always will be.
RQ minus 14
Maybe the OGL makes this more feasable, but doing just what you said was essentially a failure for both RQ2 and RQ3. I don't think I'm going out on a limb in saying that I suspect that the majority of people that played Questworld set it in Glorantha.Enpeze said:Mongoose tries to change the character of RQ by releasing it as OGL and with additional fantasy settings. These two moves will make the system more independent from Glorantha.
Enpeze said:CharlieMonster said:Unfortunately for them Glorantha was one of the biggest reasons people bought RQ and I suspect always will be.
RQ minus 14
While I agree with the first part of your assumption I do not agree with the second part. Mongoose tries to change the character of RQ by releasing it as OGL and with additional fantasy settings. These two moves will make the system more independent from Glorantha. It will introduce young and fresh players to the rule system. At the same time they release at least 2 new settings: Lankhmar and King Arthur. Next year they maybe use MRQ for their very successful conan line. And this is just the beginning. With OGL every game company could use MRQ for its own setting. So I dont think that Glorantha will be the main reason that people buy RQ in the future. It will be just one among other interesting settings.
Maybe in two years we speak about the new X-man game which uses MRQ rules, who knows? Or how about a dark scifi setting?
atgxtg said:In other words, Mongoose is planning on making all the same mistakes than AH did. RQ was the #2 Fantasry RPG, and in a postion to challenge AD&D, until Avalon Hill took Glorantha out of the mix. I suspect they will have the same results.
atgxtg said:THe whoole, new settings being a draw sort of thing has a flaw to it. The D*D crowd generally don't buy other RPGs. So for RQ is going to have to lure players away from D&D (not easily done). THis is going to require something that RQ can offer than D&D cannot.
atgxtg said:SO far, the only setting book that doesn't have one orf more D&D analogues is Glorantha.
Urox said:Maybe the OGL makes this more feasable, but doing just what you said was essentially a failure for both RQ2 and RQ3. I don't think I'm going out on a limb in saying that I suspect that the majority of people that played Questworld set it in Glorantha.Enpeze said:Mongoose tries to change the character of RQ by releasing it as OGL and with additional fantasy settings. These two moves will make the system more independent from Glorantha.
Urox said:Without the Glorantha specific rules, the system winds up being another BRP. I wonder what will be left when you strip out the Gloranthan mechanics from MQ?
-- skill based characters (not class)
-- resistance table
-- detailed combat (damage avoidance, hit locations, damage reduction)
I probably was unclear in my post -- those are the elements that would remain, and are essentially BRP.Enpeze said:Damned, I was not aware that above things are Glorantha mechanics only.Urox said:Without the Glorantha specific rules, the system winds up being another BRP. I wonder what will be left when you strip out the Gloranthan mechanics from MQ?
-- skill based characters (not class)
-- resistance table
-- detailed combat (damage avoidance, hit locations, damage reduction)
So, would you say Mongoose is a RPG company, or a minatures company, and which one are they going to fail at? Or would say that a company can do more than one thing?Enpeze said:Second AH was primarly a wargame company which wanted to sell roleplaying stuff too.
Urox said:I probably was unclear in my post -- those are the elements that would remain, and are essentially BRP..Enpeze said:Damned, I was not aware that above things are Glorantha mechanics only.Urox said:Without the Glorantha specific rules, the system winds up being another BRP. I wonder what will be left when you strip out the Gloranthan mechanics from MQ?
-- skill based characters (not class)
-- resistance table
-- detailed combat (damage avoidance, hit locations, damage reduction)
Urox said:So, would you say Mongoose is a RPG company, or a minatures company, and which one are they going to fail at? Or would say that a company can do more than one thing?
Urox said:So, would you say Mongoose is a RPG company, or a minatures company, and which one are they going to fail at? Or would say that a company can do more than one thing?
atgxtg said:I think I am going to have to pull out Griffin Isalnd. I recall reading something in it about why it had been pulled from Glorantha and about Slarges and all that. At least I think I do. I mean, it been what, 20 years since I read the thing?.