BloodQuest?
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Chardros The Reaper
Mongoose
I purchased the pdf last night and it's pretty interesting. It reminds me very much of Call of Cthulhu, of course, but a bit edgier. Some highlights:
*Magic Points are renamed to Power Points and function the same. No spells are given but RQ spells, especially sorcery, could easily be used, as could CoC spells.
*There are Mind Points that function much like Sanity Points in CoC, though it is derived by adding INT to POW.
*Fatigue points are used and remind me very much of RQ3 rules. I like this a bit better actually than the fatigue level mechanic in MRQ.
*Courage is a cool skill that is used to resist going bonkers. It acts much like Persistance but is actually eroded by failure. Makes sense, the more fearful you become the less courageous you are.
*Basic Skills are modernized as are Advanced Skills of which they're are several dozen to choose from.
*Cultural Backgrounds are based on Poor, Middle, and Rich classes. There are a plethora of Proffessions available, again very CoC in nature.
*There is an interesting mechanic that addresses the problem of skills being greater than 100%, admitting that typically only otherworldly entities will have such an ability 'beyond mortal ken'.
*Detailed are modern weapons and armors as well as vehicle combat rules.
Overall I think this is a rather nice rules supplement and I hope to see more come of this. I was thinking of running a horror scenario using RQ and this should work perfectly. It grafts the good mechanics of RQ onto CoC giving us the best of both worlds. BloodQuest is definitely worth $2.50, even if you just want to steal some of the interesting Attributes and rules tweaks.
*Magic Points are renamed to Power Points and function the same. No spells are given but RQ spells, especially sorcery, could easily be used, as could CoC spells.
*There are Mind Points that function much like Sanity Points in CoC, though it is derived by adding INT to POW.
*Fatigue points are used and remind me very much of RQ3 rules. I like this a bit better actually than the fatigue level mechanic in MRQ.
*Courage is a cool skill that is used to resist going bonkers. It acts much like Persistance but is actually eroded by failure. Makes sense, the more fearful you become the less courageous you are.
*Basic Skills are modernized as are Advanced Skills of which they're are several dozen to choose from.
*Cultural Backgrounds are based on Poor, Middle, and Rich classes. There are a plethora of Proffessions available, again very CoC in nature.
*There is an interesting mechanic that addresses the problem of skills being greater than 100%, admitting that typically only otherworldly entities will have such an ability 'beyond mortal ken'.
*Detailed are modern weapons and armors as well as vehicle combat rules.
Overall I think this is a rather nice rules supplement and I hope to see more come of this. I was thinking of running a horror scenario using RQ and this should work perfectly. It grafts the good mechanics of RQ onto CoC giving us the best of both worlds. BloodQuest is definitely worth $2.50, even if you just want to steal some of the interesting Attributes and rules tweaks.
Hello there,
I would be the author
BloodQuest is meant only as a 'rules sketch' for running modern horror scenarios using the MRQ core rules and to provide some basica compatability with our own game Blood! (Which some of you might recall from the early 90's).
That said, the interest has been pretty fast and thick so I may work up a more fully featured version.
If you like it keep an eye out for All These Worlds... which has been planned for several years now and will be an SF toolkit. Originally I was trying to develop it for d20 but MRQ is a much better fit.
BloodQuest will be supported (along with d20 Modern and Blood!) in the near future with the Freakshow creature PDF books. The first of these will be conversions of the existing Blood! monsters from the Blood! main rulebook but new ones will follow.
IMO, despite quite a lot of criticism, Mongoose have done a bang-up job in producing a viable alternative to d20 in open gaming and I hope to continue to provide for RQ system afficianados and help make it a bigger success!
I would be the author
BloodQuest is meant only as a 'rules sketch' for running modern horror scenarios using the MRQ core rules and to provide some basica compatability with our own game Blood! (Which some of you might recall from the early 90's).
That said, the interest has been pretty fast and thick so I may work up a more fully featured version.
If you like it keep an eye out for All These Worlds... which has been planned for several years now and will be an SF toolkit. Originally I was trying to develop it for d20 but MRQ is a much better fit.
BloodQuest will be supported (along with d20 Modern and Blood!) in the near future with the Freakshow creature PDF books. The first of these will be conversions of the existing Blood! monsters from the Blood! main rulebook but new ones will follow.
IMO, despite quite a lot of criticism, Mongoose have done a bang-up job in producing a viable alternative to d20 in open gaming and I hope to continue to provide for RQ system afficianados and help make it a bigger success!
