From: Graeme A Lindsell (gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au)
Date: Fri 13 Aug 1993 - 18:34:58 EEST
>
> gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au (Graeme A Lindsell) writes:
> > outside of a general dislike of the fatigue rules: some people
> > even like the sorcery rules (bizarre!). A collection of optional
>
> Kind of the reason I'm somewhat behind Loren on this. I'd rather get
> SOMETHING out than spend the next two years determining what we even want
> to do. (By the way, if I was the reference to liking the sorcery
> rules...not really, I just don't consider the current ones an altogether
> acceptable fix).
No, it wasn't you: there was a poster a couple of months ago who liked
the current RQIII rules just fine. (Strange but True Tales of FRP!!)
I'm no fan of the RQIV Draft 2.0 sorcery rules either: I (like many other
people I believe) prefer Pauls presence/twin concept. This won't be in
any companion though, since you need to re-write the character sheet.
This leads to an interesting point (at least to me): the original
requirement for RQIV was that you wouldn't have to change the published
character sheets, so that published adventures could still be used; if
this condition is met, then people could still play the scenarios using the
RQIII rules, they don't need RQIV. It doesn't matter whether AH publish
those rules as a Rules Companion or as RQIV: using those rules is
entirely optional. A Companion would be cheaper, since it wouldn't need
to be as big, but RQIV would probably likely to attract more new
players, just because it looks new.
My $6.37 (2 cents corrected for inflation): if it doesn't need to
change the character sheets/published scenarios, I'd publish it as
a Companion. If it does need to, and many of the rules this list has
favoured need to, then I think it is worth producing it as RQIV, and
republishing the best of the RQIII scenario packs. Chaosium has repackaged
many of its early CoC adventures for later editions without much trouble.
The publication of RQIV might be the time to break out of the Prax
ghetto, too.
All of this IMHO, of course.
>
> Has anyone actually heard anything OFFICIAL on the status of the project,
> by the way? I haven't seen any mail in two weeks, and get the feeling
> I've missed something.
>
All I saw was Ken's letter: I can't recall anything from Oliver or Carl
recently.
> Wayne
Graeme Lindsell a.k.a gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au
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