Broo's and disease.

[Dead Blue Clown]

rurik wrote:

I imagine Broo feces is some pretty vile stuff (more so than 'normal' poop)

I fell neck-deep into the pit of it in Snakepipe Hollow. I think I contracted every contractable disease. Yes, it is vile.

Ugh. Worst. Day. Ever!

 

[Urox]

Yeah, theres an example of a Magical disease in the rulebook.

Wonder if it would have been too close to RQ2 for them to have kept the shakes, creeping chills, soul waste etc in the system...

Bummer that they didn't keep the names, but the names may be Glorantha specific, so they might be in another book.

For reference, they were:

Wasting Disease (STR)
Brain Fever (INT)
Soul Waste (POW)
Creeping Chills (CON)
The Shakes (DEX)

 

[atgxtg]

THat sounds good for descriptive purposes, but it would make running an encounter with a large band of Broo "sickening" in more ways than one. Working out who touched/smelt/were spat on/breathed on/bled on etc. after a climatic fight might be more challenging that running the encounter.

There is that, yeah. I once knew a guy who insisted on making every action in a Werewolf: the Apocalypse fight into a different attack. So for Bad Guy #1's attacks he'd headbutt, then stab, then bite, then kick, then punch. Bad Guy #2 would bite, headbutt, kick and stab. And so on through the 8 or more enemies. Each attack required a different number of dice, did different damage, and needed to be dealt with differently. This, he insisted, was in the name of 'spicing up a fight.'

Egads.

I was thinking back to my early gaming days, where I would write up individual stats for each opponent. Sure, it was more realsistic, but it was a major pain in the butt, and the only difference the players noticed was that it took me longer to run the monsters. Eventally, I went to the squad & leader model of RQ2, with possibly a note of too to differentiate the opponents ("this one is the same as the others but 12 DEX instead of 11 and a 60% dodge). In one week I went form the dead slow, slowest GM in the area to the lightnight fast/fastest GM. :shock:

...and there was great rejoicing around the gaming table.

 

[atgxtg]

If chaos features are not in MRQ then I will just use them verbatim from the old RQ rules.

I mean, c'mon. no chaos features?

Maybe things like disease and chaos features will be covered in the Glorantha or Monsters books.

I believe that I read somehere (and I might be mistaken) that while Chaotic Features are not in MRQ, they are covered in the Gloranta book. More of a case of taking Glorantha out of the RQ rules.

 

[waiwode]

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 die pools? ) Disease Spirits.

A host of thirty or so Broo would have a veritable army of pestilent Disease Spirits in their presence, a sort of symbiosis of sickness.

Plus, if gives a Broo Shaman something to work with!

Doug.

 

[atgxtg]

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 die pools? ) Disease Spirits.

A host of thirty or so Broo would have a veritable army of pestilent Disease Spirits in their presence, a sort of symbiosis of sickness.

Plus, if gives a Broo Shaman something to work with!

Doug.

Well, Broos used to be contangious, until the great retconn that was RQ3. Wih the creation of disease spirits we are sort of let wondering if they are the sole (soul) cause of disase or if there are other causes.

A mystical interpretation of disease as a evil spirit is fine, although it probably shouldn't be in the Core RQ book, but in the Glorantha book.