From: keith.s.stevens@uwrf.edu
Date: Fri 03 Jun 1994 - 14:09:00 EEST
Hello you all! Well I guess its about time I write to you, since I've been
reading this for about 6 months now, though it hard to keep up since I only get
about once a week to read my news. Anyways, I've built up a lot of questions
(and maybe I even remember some of them), but I'm not going to ask too many at
one time ( so that I can keep up with the responces ).
First I should should describe myself a little first. I've only been playing RPGs for about 3 years. My first experience was a summer campaign of Twighlight 2000 (where you learn that when there is a firefight, you RUN cause you will be kill). That fall a friend introduced me to RuneQuest, and have played in 3 campaigns and ran one since then. I have a few senerios (OK, practically none, I can't find them here. And when I do it's way to expencive for me to buy). I've never played in Gloranthia, and never plan on doing so. My reason for this (if that is what you where asking yourself) is that I beleive taht the players should never know more than the GM about the world that they are in.
Anyways, question (1): Someone recently asked about mechanics for playing a gunslinger (I think, but I don't recall for sure). Well, last year we had a really interesting game. The players were U.S. special forces solders that had gotten 'dropped' into the GM's Runequest world. We developed rules for that sort of combat,including quickdraws, braced shots, cover & concealment modifiers, and passive and active defences for missle fire. And we had several pistols, rifles, and grenades defined.
Imagine the consequnces of that
Sarge: What the hell is that shimmering creature that's deflecting our
bullets, and why does my hurt?
(A slarge with Prot 8 that just cast Disruption. i.e. no concept of magic)
Would these stats be what you're looking for?
Question 2: I've been trying to use RQ religions as much as possible, but the only source I have is Gods of Gloranthia for this. On this subject, I'm trying to get a grasp of dwarves. Their god (and only god) is the Maker, who is signified with 2 statis runes. Are their any other Gods that possess this rune?
Question 3: I've heard a lot of people complain about the sorcery rules in RQ3. My first reaction is 'what are you taling about?' but then I realized that is because I've never played runequest rules for sorcery. I've only played our own very of sorcery rules in runequest. Instead of reading the rules in the rulebook and interpreting them myself, I would like if someone could summarize the rules and what is wrong with them. WAIT don't respond yet. I don't want a huge agument going on the digest again about what's wrong, so if you could reply directly to me. Then I can reply to the rest how we seemed to ahve gotten around some of these problems. I'm not saying that our way is perfect, but it seems to work.
Question 4: I've vaguely remember hearing that their might be RQ4 playtest rules available. Who do I contact to attempt to get a peek at these rules, so that I might be able in incorporate them.
final note:
I have quite a bit of things that a friend of mine made up for ruequest (well,
acquired from other people and modified himself, and modified by me for my use)
that I can probably pass on to you for your use. But it depends on how slow it
is at work for me to type this stuff in.
Talk to you later,
Keith
EMAIL: Keith.S.Stevens@uwrf.edu
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