Is Rune of Chaos any good.

[Mage]

Hello fellow RPGers!

I am a good GM, but find it hard to create a first game of a campaign. Just a question, is Rune of Chaos a good introductory scenario? I find these good, as a means of gauging 'difficulty levels' for future games.

I have my own world created (sorry Glorantha) but intend on using the cults and everything else, along with my own concotions for a massive campaign.

I am going to run about five or six campaigns over the next few years, ending one where the next will start, but have each on a different continent on the samwe world, and then I need to think up of some big crazy ending.

But to go back to what I was saying, this is good for introdutcions yes? I mean, i just need a rough template, and odds are I will just shred it, cut and paste, and put it in my own light.

Is it a keeper, or a pooper?

 

[Itto]

There is another thread about it here:

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22538&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Some fors and some against. Me, I got several sessions from it - building upon the events that happen within the published scenario. And it went pretty well. Well worth the cash.


Cheers

 

[CharlieMonster]

See previous thread on this product:-

http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22538&highlight=rune+chaos

If you are after an adventure to kick off a generic RQ campaign, try "The Mad Druid" from Signs & Portents 35 or 36 (I think). It's a bit D&D-ish, but quite a good starting adventure.

 

[Mage]

Just read the first few posts and it is a bitchfest. I think the scneario was intended for noobs. I'm gonna use it anyway, and then do my own.
Maybe the guys complaining should send their brilliant scenarios into Signs and portents, and making a living as writers.
I do not use this forum much, but I have to say, the critics here are too outspoken for their own good. Their lucky that this incarnation of the game exists at all.

 

[CharlieMonster]

Maybe the guys complaining should send their brilliant scenarios into Signs and portents, and making a living as writers.
I do not use this forum much, but I have to say, the critics here are too outspoken for their own good. Their lucky that this incarnation of the game exists at all.

On the whole I'm very supportive of MRQ and I think it's for the most part kick-ass, but I'm afraid I have to stand by my opinion of this product.

"If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck we should at least be prepared to consider the possibility that what we have is an aquatic fowl of the species anatidae"

In short you asked the question you, I directed you to an honest answer based on my opinion. I personally think it sucked, especially compared to the B5 intro scenario of the same size/cost. On the other hand I did like "A Raven in the Roost" and have said so. I just felt and still do it's a poor product in an otherwise good line. I am well awarev how lucky we are that MRQ exists, but that doesn't oblige me to abandon my critical faculties.

I agree that there are some people on this forum who are very negative, buit some of us are, or at least try to be, reasonably objective, we say what we like and what we don't like. The "Goosey's" are by and large pretty good at what they do, this forum serves an excellent purpose as a market research tool as long as we are honest.

As I have always maintain, if I don't like something I will say so, if I like something I will try to remember to say something, but freely admit I will probably forget. So sue me. On reflection, I probably shouldn't come on the Forum after I've been to the pub, 'cause I get right on my high horse.

Bottom line is, if you don't wanna hear the answer, don't ask the question!

Hic!

SO THERE! Nyah nyah nyeh nyah nyah!

 

[Trifletraxor]

Just read the first few posts and it is a bitchfest. I think the scneario was intended for noobs. I'm gonna use it anyway, and then do my own.
Maybe the guys complaining should send their brilliant scenarios into Signs and portents, and making a living as writers.
I do not use this forum much, but I have to say, the critics here are too outspoken for their own good. Their lucky that this incarnation of the game exists at all.

It sucks. But hey, if you like that, buy it and try.

SGL.

 

[Voriof]

Maybe the guys complaining should send their brilliant scenarios into Signs and portents, and making a living as writers.

That's how I got started. Except for the Signs and Portents part, that is.

Got my start writing introductory or demo scenarios for instructors way back in the day for AEG's L5R and 7th Sea games.

Voriof aka Jeff Kyer

 

[Exubae]

I think the scneario was intended for noobs. I'm gonna use it anyway, and then do my own.

Agreed, its a bit like a taster scenario, might have been better to have it included in the back of one of books or as a coverless scenario with the GMs screen as a kind of kick start pack.
It feels kind of lost as scenario booklet - I bought the pdf... and felt a little disappointed... its not bad... but wouldn't buy it as a printed item.

 

[soltakss]

I bought it in a bundle with the Rulebook and GM's Screen. I'd have probably been disappointed if I'd have bought it on its own.

It isn't bad, but I felt I'd been there and done that many times in the past.

It'll fill a couple of sessions no problem and won't challenge anyone's roleplaying abilities.

 

[Licheking]

I ran it and liked it as a scenario. It was a little to generic for me, as i'm running the game in Glorantha, but good for an introductory scenario.

£4.99, is not bad for a Scenario nowadays, unfortunatly, but i would like to see some £1.99 scenario's like the ones published for D&D3.

 

[Mage]

Thanks for the response guys.

@ CharlieMonster, I was not knocking you, but when I opened the link to the other topic, I felt people were overly negative. There is giving your opinion, and saying you don't like something, and there is just being downright insulting to the copany, designers and artists, which you are not.

From what I have heard, I would either use a scenario already published in a book with more rules, if such a book exists, or go with a signs and portents one, and maybe write my own and submit them.

Any good sS&P ones? I'd take forever looking through all of them...

 

[Rurik]

There are only 2 as RQ is so new,

Raven in the Roost, a very basic introductory adventure in S&P 35.

The Mad Druid, a more detailed adventure in S&P 36.

There are a couple of other adventures published by Otherworld Creations set in their Diomin world that may be easily adaptable - I don't know much about Diomin (a d20 setting they are converting to RQ as well).

 

[CharlieMonster]

My business sense however tells me that a good cover helps sell the game to impulse buyers.

Sorry, got a bit over sensitive on that one , In my defence, I did read it after I'd been down the pub, nothing like a few pints of Old Peculier to get me on my high horse

 

[Skipper]

I just got the module yesturday. Granted, its not the most indepth or groound shattering module, but it's not that bad. I think as an introductory module it will work fine. I'll do some heavy modifications on it, but then I do that with everything I run. IT also gives you a starting point for beginning a campaign. If you are running an advanced group of players (players, not characters), this may not quite be what you are looking for. But if you are breaking new players and GM into the system, you can't go wrong if you have the money for it.