Which Real World Culture Needs a RuneQuest Book Next???
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superc0ntra
Mongoose
I'll let the world know when I'm done.
superc0ntra
Mongoose
That seems to be the one
Mithras
Banded Mongoose
Hey, Supercontra, let me know! That sounds interesting. I'm more of a history sim guy than a fantasy RPer, at least when it comes to writing games like Warlords of Alexander. So if someone else will write those fantasy bits, I'm all for it!
I'd love to see any finished work, and host it alongside Warlords on my site. Whenever you get finished!
Vile: Thanks
I'd love to see any finished work, and host it alongside Warlords on my site. Whenever you get finished!
Vile: Thanks
Astromancer
Mongoose
superc0ntra said:
Hey Superc0ntra! I looked up Warlords of Alexander, I liked it. A critique of the magic section. You need a means for Magcians to Summon and Bind spirits. In period, and in the period's fiction, magicians were believed to work magic by binding spirits to the will and having the spirit do their bidding. So instead of a Curse skill, a Magician would sent a spirit to cause you trouble. Charm and Restore health still work as spells, but a Summon/Bind spirit spell is needed. That and a short list of common spirit types and what sorts of powers they're likely to have, also the cost/consequince of binding/enslaving them.
Astromancer
Mongoose
soltakss said:
My mistake!
I vote for Atlantis.
Ok so perhaps stretching the 'real world culture' requirement in the subject line, but think about it.
The era and technology level is bang on the money for the standard RuneQuest rules. Absolutely everything that's in the basic rulebook could be applicable, including magic. In some ways it's a familiar setting with plenty of source material, much of it well out of copyright. I'm thinking of the Lewis Spence material principaly, and yet there's a huge range of flexibility in how to execute it. It's also very extensible, however you depict Atlantean culture itself you can bring in links to real-world cultures and even introduce whatever anachronistic elements you want because relay what happened is that later cultures rediscovered Atlantean techniques.
There's plenty of scope for expansion later as well. The even more ancient continent of Lemuria for example.
Simon Hibbs
Ok so perhaps stretching the 'real world culture' requirement in the subject line, but think about it.
The era and technology level is bang on the money for the standard RuneQuest rules. Absolutely everything that's in the basic rulebook could be applicable, including magic. In some ways it's a familiar setting with plenty of source material, much of it well out of copyright. I'm thinking of the Lewis Spence material principaly, and yet there's a huge range of flexibility in how to execute it. It's also very extensible, however you depict Atlantean culture itself you can bring in links to real-world cultures and even introduce whatever anachronistic elements you want because relay what happened is that later cultures rediscovered Atlantean techniques.
There's plenty of scope for expansion later as well. The even more ancient continent of Lemuria for example.
Simon Hibbs
Lord High Munchkin
Mongoose
You can even combine it into a book with the Greeks.
I voted Medieval Arabs.
Groups like the Greeks, Vikings, and many of those others have already been covered ad nauseum by other games and companies on numerous occasions. There are already plenty of good sources, easily translatable to MRQII, to be found. Not that the Greeks weren't interesting but Greek Sourcebook #1583 isn't really what I want to see.
I'd like to see sourcebooks for cultures that are rarely, if ever, covered by traditional fantasy games.
jolt
Groups like the Greeks, Vikings, and many of those others have already been covered ad nauseum by other games and companies on numerous occasions. There are already plenty of good sources, easily translatable to MRQII, to be found. Not that the Greeks weren't interesting but Greek Sourcebook #1583 isn't really what I want to see.
I'd like to see sourcebooks for cultures that are rarely, if ever, covered by traditional fantasy games.
jolt
Astromancer
Mongoose
Loz said:
Back in the middle or late 1980's, when I called the Chaosium office and got to speak to Sandy Paterson, he, or someone else in the Office, told me there was a Mesoamerican RuneQuest suppliment half finnished in one of the filing cabinets there.
I think someone told me (but don't hold me to this) that it was submitted by a Mexican fan who spoke Nautal and studied the cultures as part of his job. He was a professor of Mexican history.
I wonder if that treatment still exists?
I voted for the Elizabethans, mostly because I am currently busy desig-
ning some small alternate earth settings against the background of the
early 17th century, and would love to have another source of good ide-
as besides the Flashing Blades RPG.
However, I would like almost any historical setting, provided it is well
written. Such settings are a great opportunity to immerse in characters
from widely different cultures and to explore different ways of thought
and life, a real roleplaying challenge and a nice way to learn something
new, about the cultures in question as well as - with some luck - about
one self.
Magic and other fantasy trappings ... I usually prefer my historical or
pseudo-historical settings with few or no magic and fantastical stuff, the
only exception could be what the people of the culture in question con-
sidered to be real.
ning some small alternate earth settings against the background of the
early 17th century, and would love to have another source of good ide-
as besides the Flashing Blades RPG.
However, I would like almost any historical setting, provided it is well
written. Such settings are a great opportunity to immerse in characters
from widely different cultures and to explore different ways of thought
and life, a real roleplaying challenge and a nice way to learn something
new, about the cultures in question as well as - with some luck - about
one self.
Magic and other fantasy trappings ... I usually prefer my historical or
pseudo-historical settings with few or no magic and fantastical stuff, the
only exception could be what the people of the culture in question con-
sidered to be real.
I would like the romans with an alternate timeline, and including magic, reaching from the founding of Rome to the end of the republic (when Augustus seized the power and started the area of the emperors). The big thing would be the influence that magic and the gods (and other mythological beings) would have had on the culture.
Otherwise I would opt for the Elizabethanians, if only because I liked the novel Druid's Blood, and the Lord Darcy stories, which are both set in a fantasy England/english empire.
Otherwise I would opt for the Elizabethanians, if only because I liked the novel Druid's Blood, and the Lord Darcy stories, which are both set in a fantasy England/english empire.
Mongoose Pete
Mongoose
You could always pick up a copy of my 'Rome - Life and Death of the Republic', which although originally written for BRP is very easy to convert over and gives some guidelines for alternate timeline campaigns.Vatras said:
It also includes its own stand alone magic system which tries to model period Roman magic. However, if you wanted to have a high fantasy style game you could always substitute whatever MRQ2 magic you wanted.
