Dr. Halflight
Mongoose
For Combat Skills above 100%, will the Opposed Skill subtraction rule be used?
RQII Combat Question
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Dr. Halflight
Mongoose
Thanks for the quick reply! Really looking forward to its release 
I continue the thread with another question, if you don't mind.
So far the new combat system looks very promising and I eagerly wait for to see it in action.
What really caught my attention were the maneuvers. I just loved combat maneuvers in Fading Suns, although the implementation seemed a bit silly. Now, how does the maneuvers work in RQII? Does the MoS (margin of success) or similar thing indicate the range of possible maneuvers in a way that lower MoS allows only slight tricks while a great success allows for a flashier and/or more effective maneuver? Or am I totally at the wrong tracks here?
Thanks!
So far the new combat system looks very promising and I eagerly wait for to see it in action.
What really caught my attention were the maneuvers. I just loved combat maneuvers in Fading Suns, although the implementation seemed a bit silly. Now, how does the maneuvers work in RQII? Does the MoS (margin of success) or similar thing indicate the range of possible maneuvers in a way that lower MoS allows only slight tricks while a great success allows for a flashier and/or more effective maneuver? Or am I totally at the wrong tracks here?
Thanks!
Mongoose Pete
Mongoose
A similar thing. Some of the manoeuvres are limited to rolling a critical success. Gaining several levels of success over your opponent allows you to select an equal number of manoeuvres, which can be devastating in the right combination and/or situation.SnowDog said:
tarkhan bey
Mongoose
All sounds good, but, will there be rules for mounted combat?
Dr. Halflight
Mongoose
Pete Nash said:
I was wondering if you could reveal if there will be additional levels of success beyond Critical Succes, Success, Failure, & Critical Failure?
Dr. Halflight
Mongoose
andakitty said:
If your happy with any other editon of RQ/BRP, what's stopping you from continuing to play it? Why "worry" about what MRQ II shapes up to be?
BTW, Loz & Pete thanks for your time & answers. I've bought MRQ, Hawkmoon, & Elric from Mongoose. I'll be buying MRQ II.
Loz
Mongoose
No, the levels of success remain just as they are.
Is crit/success/fail/fumble a 'complexity'? The original editions of RQ just had these levels of success; 'special' got added into the AH edition and Elric! - so, I don't see how RQII is creating additional complexity - unless I've completely misunderstood your statement, that is.
Mongoose Pete
Mongoose
Yes there are.tarkhan bey said:
duncan_disorderly
Mongoose
Loz said:
There were "specials" - Impale, Slash & Crush in my (original) RQ2 (the GW edition of the Chaosium rules)...
Deleriad
Mongoose
duncan_disorderly said:
Slashes and crushes were included in the appendix as optional rules. "Specials" (rolling 1/5 of your skill) did not exist in RQ2 as a standard type of success. The only types of success in RQ2 were critical, normal, fail and fumble with impales as a special case.
CoC modified RQ2 and removed criticals to replace them with specials. RQ3 put in specials and criticals. Go back and read RQ2: nowhere is there a standard category called "special result;" the crit/spec/nor/fail/fumble continuum came in with ElfQuest I believe. (It may have been in Ringworld).
Dr. Halflight
Mongoose
andakitty said:
Congratulations, you own RQ2. Unfortunately, its out of print by a matter of decades. Some of us want to support a line thats IN PRINT. I don't own RQ2 & it was published several years before I began roleplaying. And while I own RQ3, Elric!, Stormbringer, MRQ, & Elric for MRQ, I'm going to purchases MRQ II & am curious about it, not past products.
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