From: Graeme A Lindsell (gal502@cscgpo.anu.edu.au)
Date: Fri 03 Sep 1993 - 18:41:39 EEST
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> I think it's important to leave Rune Lords in the game. Why? Because it's
> important that the game have a goal. RQ2 was "about" attaining a rune. This
> is more than just getting more power (tho that's the simple way of looking
> at it), it's establishing your place in the order of Glorantha. Becoming a
> Rune Lord was a goal of all of my RQ2 characters (tho none of them ever
> made it, and only one came anywhere close).
That's what RQ2 was about, I agree. Now there are a lot of cults that
don't have Rune Lord status, and most of those that do have priest powers
as well (ie re-usable rune magic).
>
> Warhammer Fantasy has always annoyed me because it seemed like the basic
> game was split into two sections in the same book (finding character
> classes seemed something only the GM could do). Obviously, this is a
> potential problem with RQ-Lite, but that's why the complex optional rules
> should be in a separate volume, which I think would be less annoying.
> (They'd also be optional, rather than merely high-level -- having to buy a
> second book to become a Rune Lord would annoy me more than having to buy a
> second book to get rules for (say) hit locations or shamans (which are
> typically NPCs).)
I have separate RQ Lite and RQ Advanced right now: I have the Games
Workshop edition of RQIII in hardback books, one is the Standard Edition
and the other is rest of the deluxe edition. As a result, the combat
system is broken up between two books and I need to look between both of
them to find something. Even with its multiple typos and weird division
of character creation WFRP is superior in layout and utility. If RQLite
and RQ advanced are divided either people would need to switch between
books or material would be repeated in both books. There is also
economies of scale in producing one single large volume rather than
two separate books.
Graeme Lindsell a.k.a gal502@huxley.anu.edu.au
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