RQ Pirates Reputation and Charisma in RQII

[algauble]

I was reading the preview for RQ Pirates (pdf here: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/rqpirates.pdf)
and the use of Reputation (which I guess was introduced in the Companion) reminded me of some descriptions I've heard about the way Charisma would fluctuate in RQII. Now I haven't seen a copy of the RQII rules in quite some time, and I was wondering if anyone could fill me in on how Charisma actually worked in those rules? Is there anything that would be worth porting to our MRQ games?

 

[zozotroll]

If you dont get a response by tomarrow, I will get a chance to get my copy out of storage and look it up. But I dont recall it was all that great, but then I played a bit differently back then.

 

[weasel_fierce]

Charisma had game impact, because it let you get training cheaper (which is how you mainly improved skills)
Every point over 12 gave you a 5% discount on training costs.

Modifiers are:

+1 per 25% in Oratory skill
+1 per 25% of skill in your main weapon, past 50%
+1 for owning a nice, showy magical item (one only)
Successfull leadership of an expedition can give +1 (they leave it up to GM to determine, but suggest current CHA as a percentile chance of gain)
Disastrous leadership, roll CHA as percentile or loose 1-3 points.

 

[Daithi O'an tSionnaigh]

I love the RuneQuest Pirates book and I am going to intergrate it into my RuneQuest game. Pirates rule!

 

[zozotroll]

For me, Pirates is the main game, and I shoehorn the rest of RQ into it.

But IF I can find the players I will start a regular RQ game later this year.