From: Countzero (JAMES%POLY-EAST-LONDON.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU)
Date: Mon 14 Jan 1991 - 09:56:33 EET
English readers of this list will be interested to hear that Greg Stafford
was interviewed by Game master ( formerly GM ) magazine when he visted
Cambridge for a convention in august this year. In the article, written
by that Wayne blokey, he explains about how he came to first write rq as
he had got hold of a d&d set and thought he could do better, his early
fraustrations as a would be sf/fantasy writer and the current direction
of the Chaosium game company.
On a completely different subject :-)
You people are network connected so therefore quite a few of you could well be expert computer users. So do you use any software to generate characters? The RQ character generation system is complex, but well ordered and looks at first glance as if it would be easy to implement. at the Moment I use a as-easy-as shareware spreadsheet, and then load the results into wordperfect using a macro to merge the numbers into the right places on a blank sheet. Before this, I used a database which would have been great: for all the different kinds of creature and previous experience that RQ supports, but it didnt like the number of calculations involved and so didnt prove ideal in the end. My current method sadly only does barbarian warriors but its very easy to modify the spreadsheet / the results for other creatures / previous experiences. Has anyone got a program which covers a this wide range which I currently lack? It would be "fun" you (code)hackers out there to write the generator in a object orientated language because the bonuses and skills are all organised hierarchically.
[Ed's note: I started writing a program for generating characters in C, but never finished it. If anyone else is interested in writing one, I can send you the code I have and you can see if it's useful to you. (It even has lots of comments so it *might* even be understandable...)]
But enough of this techno-babble...a serious question topic.......
Vampires in RQ
In my third edition GDW creatures book, it says under the entry for
Vampires that they would make potent sorcerers. In glorantha, however
Vampires operate to some extent through the Vivamort cult, which if I
remember rightly from cults of terror ( its been a while since I looked
at a copy of this ) "vampire-izes" its initiates upon becoming priests
or runelords. The priests can continue with the rune magic they have,
but obviously cant sacrifice for more because they dont have POW any
more. In terms of 3rd edition rules this makes sense, because now the
qualification for being a priest is, amongst other things, having ten
pts. of rune magic. so whats with this sorcery thing? Is it a "generic
RQ" nasty? Comments please...
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