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g from the gamesmaster it s here i will have a full review of rq rig in the very near future along the lines of my ancient review of mongoose rq2 my initial impressions are that this is a good system with some excellent additions to the runequest classic rules but that some enhancements to the old system made on the road to mythras were ignored that could have made the rules even better i imagine that gms with experience in running gloranthan adventures using mrq2 or rq6 mythras will be doing a lot of house ruling and i ll be writing about my decisions along those lines here i ll also take the opportunity to tidy up this blog a bit including the incredibly out of date sidebar chaosium have kindly given permission to use some of the art from the new games in social media postings and i hope a blog qualifies as well i ll also try to throw in a few reviews of design mechanism games too posted by swordsman at 3 45 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 19 2012 further thoughts about martial arts in legend martial arts vampire slayer in action let s face it my first attemp t at representing martial arts in legend mrqii didn t work very well i ve been trying to come up with something better and have been attempting to flesh out a system as someone else had very similar thoughts i just posted these to the mongoose forum and thought i really ought to post them here comments etc are very welcome by the way it looks like rq6 approaches this through its new mysticism rules and they ll probably be much better than these anyway but for the nonce martial arts each tradition or school teaches a combat style the martial arts skills probably a few other skills and a variety of techniques that help modify the combat style by adding combat maneuvers abilities and effects through the martial arts skill it may also teach heroic abilities martial arts specific tradition skill pow dex the martial arts skill is used to apply martial arts techniques to a combat style each ten percent of martial arts skill allows the martial artist to apply 1 point of technique to his her combat style for the combat action round this skill is not rolled against when fighting its value merely limits how much the martial artist may modify his her combat style in fantastical worlds each technique used may cost 1 magic point read more posted by swordsman at 7 04 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday march 17 2012 rip firu ba yeker i was deeply upset to hear of the passing of professor mar barker the inventor of tekumel and what must surely be the first dedicated rpg setting the empire of the petal throne i am a proud possessor of the original ept box set even if it is rather more battered than the one depicted here some of my earliest gaming memories are of composing notes and props in the amazing tsolyani script and my box set still contains my version of the first level of the jakallan underworld made from 4 sheets of a4 scientific graph paper taped and stapled together i even have several pages of the key sadly i only ran the system for a few sessions because then runequest 2 came out and we all switched over to that pretty quickly apart from a few diehards who decided chivalry sorcery was their improved game of choice i never had any personal interaction with the good professor but the great dave morris did his moving tribute is here sandy petersen creator of call of cthulhu and long time chaosium guru created some rq3 rules for tekumel which are available at the tekumel site they should be convertible to legend with a few tweaks as i ve mentioned before my vision of glorantha s kralorela has more in common with tekumel than the official version i shall now spend more time trying to bring lur nop to life in homage to jakalla posted by swordsman at 11 19 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 12 2012 whirr click resetting well last summer i had a book come out it s about american politics from a libertarian viewpoint so for the few of you who might be interested the link is here what knocked me for a loop is that since my last book came out i had to work four times as hard to sell a quarter of the copies life is extremely hard in the mainstream nonfiction publishing world at the moment and the gap between the quick the best sellers and the dead everyone else is bigger than my publisher has ever seen add to that new management responsibilities at my work and something had to give it was gaming apart from a brief and hilarious foray into od d run by one of my group and starting and then scrapping three different iterations of a gloranthan side campaign set in kralorela i have had little interaction with the gaming world so all the rash promises made below about a fanzine and so on fell by the wayside and i did nothing to rectify the situation when it became apparent i would have to drop them and for that i apologize to everyone mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa things are slowly returning to normal so i hope to restart semi regular updates here are a few brief links to begin with the flamesword jamie trotsky revell has self published his heroquest book on glorantha s seshnela kingdom of the flamesword if you liked his book of glorious joy you ll love this it treats the gloranthan west in a much more medieval fashion than the current official interpretation allows for and i have to admit i am somewhat disillusioned with the current direction of glorantha however excellent the moon design products are highly recommended design mechanism have made the excellent products written by pete nash and lawrence whitaker for the second age of glorantha available for the bargain price of a buck each if you ve somehow missed this dive in the late mrq1 and entire mrqii era of the second age books included some really excellent stuff and at the very least they ll provide some great inspiration for a homebrew legend rq6 campaign i hope the second age is not dead and would love to see tenets of the inner dragon appear at some point in osr d d i m really excited about dwimmermount i recently purchased adventurer conqueror king and between that and lotfp i think there are two really workable early d d inspired rules systems out there that could persuade me to run a d d campaign again and of course the heroquest pavis book is due any day now i will be getting a copy as soon as i can and i shall be interested to see whether it is as compatible with my vision plans for pavis as i hope it will be i thought that the way i would get myself back into gaming mood might be to review some of the great products i ve picked up over the last few months like legend s blood magic and the brilliant age of treason so i hope to produce one review at some point this week and who knows i might produce some original content at some point too posted by swordsman at 7 51 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday july 30 2011 murder at ronegarth image from this site reminded me of storm bull the heroes returned to ronegarth via horn gate where they dropped off the women of black rock to find the small settlement in a state of excitement the famed trader biturian varosh was soon to visit raus fort with his caravan bringing with him exotic goods such as the poor settlers of weis domain had not seen for a very long time soon the fort began to fill up first to arrive were the thunder bison a warlike branch of the bison people to xaraya s dismay they were led by moharo blessed by waha to whom xaraya had been engaged at birth moharo expressed great delight at seeing xaraya again and complemented her repeatedly on her beauty the fullness of her bosom and the length of her leg much to the chagrin of one karnyne widehips who it transpired was moharo s current fiancee moharo repeatedly made lascivious advances to xaraya suggesting that even though she could no longer be his wife having no tribe she could enjoy a privileged position as his most favored concubine xaraya rebuffed moharo on every occasion with the bison was kagrunner a storm khan and warrior of renown he insulted every warrior in the fort including grom who bridled and looked forward t a chance to duel the bully read more posted by swordsman at 11 25 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pavis recap saturday july 16 2011 runequest comes home it has just been announced that pete and loz the team that brought us mongoose runequest ii legend have acquired the license to produce runequest 6 in collaboration with moon design here s the announcement we are delighted to announce our agreement with issaries inc allowing the design mechanism to produce a new edition of runequest and supporting supplements you can read the full press release by clicking on the link to the right the way all this will work is as follows the design mechanism will be producing the sixth published edition of rq for an early 2012 release we will be publishing the core rules and all future supplements in partnership with moon design this allows us to call upon their resources for a wide range of things that would be too costly for us to develop singly working with moon we also have access to glorantha meaning that runequest material for both second and third age glorantha will be not just possible but a reality work on the 6th edition of the rules has begun but the hard work will be between september and december as we prepare for the release more information on the actual release date will be given nearer the time we re anticipating runequest fans will have a lot of questions and so we ve prepared an faq sheet that should address most queries see the rq faq pdf document link on the right however we also have our discussion forum here at thedesignmechanism com and will be establishing a dedicated runequest forum over at moon design this is fantastic news third age glorantha it seems will be supported once again i expect the rules system to be a further significant improvement on mrq2 which was pretty close to perfect but has some issues that only really come out after repeated play like the charging rules so color me excited about this one best news of all is that there will be an open licence posted by swordsman at 9 22 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday june 1 2011 mongoose matt s statement on the future of wayfarer is here i think the most important point is this we have been asked whether we will make wayfarer ogl this will be a decision made later but at this time we are leaning towards it however i don t think it will be the usual ogl logo licence combo as messing around with srds is very time consuming for us if we go ahead with this it is more likely to be a case of everything in the core book range is ripe for picking just stay away from the setting books aside from using a wayfarer compatible logo there will be nothing to sign or register for just pick up the rules and use them if that s the route they follow i think this excellent system will survive the approach they are leaning towards is refreshing too there s been such confusion over the status of the mrq1 srds following the end of the runequest license that it will be good to have a dare i say it more libertarian approach i am now confident that runequest will survive as a living game system posted by swordsman at 8 24 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom openquest the open d100 gaming system the roman d20 proof that the romans had random encounters about me swordsman in my day job i m a policy wonk with a libertarian group at other times i m a geek of long standing this is for my wereform you can email me at ismurray via gmail view my complete 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