HeroWars

[cjfodel]

Found some Hero Wars books at a used bookstore, the otherday, do you have any idieas on how to convert yhe monsters in them to mRQ?

Charles

 

[The King]

You should have some (non official) conversion home rules on www.glorantha.com (in the tribes section), but it only applies to the previous RQ version.

 

[simonh]

Found some Hero Wars books at a used bookstore, the otherday, do you have any idieas on how to convert yhe monsters in them to mRQ?

That would be extremely tough to do. Many HW/HQ fans are unhappy with the creature stats in Anaxial's Roster (the HW creatures book) as they are very under powered relative to most adventuring groups. Also the rules for abilities and skills don't work anything like any version of RQ.

It is possible to convert RQ characters to HW/HQ becaus their character creation system is very flexible, but very hard to convert the other way because HW/HQ layers can basicaly make up any ability or skill their GM will allow them to have and it can be very hard to cram these into the restricted skill and spell lists in RQ.

Rote translation from one system to the other is realy out of the question. Yo're better off treating it as a more general excercise of realising a fictional fantasy character into the RQ rules rather than treating it as a game mechanics conversion process.


Simon Hibbs

 

[cjfodel]

So an other words read the discrions of the monstars and guess as to what I think the mRQ rulesets would fit it?

Charles

 

[atgxtg]

IN genteral try multipliy the HQ skills by 2.5 to get MRQ skill scores. So a mastery is worth around 50%.

Stats are a bit tougher.

Try 1.444 for STR & SIZ. THat is pretty close. Or here is a close appoximation of Large & Small to SIZ. It probably holds up reasonable well for STR.

LArge
12 White Tail Deer (14-15)
15 Ostritch (20)
18 Lion (26)
2W Pony (29)
5W Horse (32)
10W Rhino (43)
18W Elephant (51)
2W2 Elephant (55)
5W2 Dream Dragon (70)
18W2 Brotard (70+)

Small
10 Typical Dog (4)
12 Small Dog (3)
15 Cat (2)
18 Small Bird (1)
5W Mouse (0-1)
10W Shrew (0-1)
5w2 LArge Beetle (0-1)
15W2 Gnat (0-1)



If you have RQ3 or RQ2 stuff, you can probably get stats for most of the creatures there instead. You can also get some good alnalogues. FOr isntace is someting has a SIZ 1 point smaller than a horse, wrting it up a SIZ 30 probably won't be far from the mark.