Comments on: Life or Death, the secret project revealed

By: gspearing

gspearing — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:03:36 +0000

You are the game writing master. I humbly offer sacrifice to your creativity in the hope that I will even start a project!

By: maviscruet

maviscruet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:47:08 +0000

I will do. As soon as we’ve done more testing. It’s full on description is “the illegitmate love child of pendragon, hero quest, and earth dawn”.

By: newt

newt — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:06:52 +0000

This is the second time that you’ve mentioned your ‘strange HQ like’ system.

You are going to have to do a quick summary of its features at some point

By: maviscruet

maviscruet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:17:59 +0000

What I might actually do is try and twist things to run off my own rather odd system…..

I’m thinking of bouncing from Fading Suns into hero quest like situation simply to see how it copes. One of the reasons being that the system was originally designed to fit round a specific magic system – that’s not actually a million miles away from the original rune quest divine magic….

By: newt

newt — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:03:39 +0000

Thanks!

On the rules front. The MRQ rules are pretty backwards compatible. You are missing a few things like Total Hit points and Strike Ranks work in a different way, but you could pretty easily use RQ3 or even RQ2 with MRQ written material.

One of my design goals with this book is to see how much mileage I can get out of the main MRQ book. So you don’t need the companion or the monsters book to play.

If you are feeling really stingy just pick up the RuneQuest SRD off the Mongoose website. Apart from colour text and examples the only thing its missing is how to roll up characteristics. And we all know
how hard that is

By: maviscruet

maviscruet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:51:03 +0000

That sounds pretty cool to be honest. I’ll proberbly pick up a copy – been looking to do some runequest action for a while.

Rules – less sure about