From: Loren J. Miller (MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue 01 Feb 1994 - 01:57:53 EET
Someone brought up the point that if we allow many optional rules in
No RuneQuest GM uses all the official rules.
RqAiG it'll be practically a necessity to have a sheet to keep track
of the rules options in use in any one campaign. I think that whoever
said this (Dunham? Reilly?) was saying it as a joke, but I think that
support of rules options is one of the best things a game can do.
This has been said, and I'll go along with it, though as with most
universal statements there are exceptions. Since so many RQ GMs ignore
some rules and add others, why not acknowledge it in the GM chapter
and give GMs and players a tool so they know what options are in play?
Give them a campaign sheet with more than just rules details on it. It
could have info on the locale, expected activities for PCs, allowable
PC race, religion, and occupations, and so on, in addition to some of
the common choices for optional rules. The Hero system has campaign
design sheets which serve a similar purpose, and they make it easy to
compactly describe a campaign for prospective players.
Some options that might be nice to cover if we had such a means of
accounting for them would be:
1. hit locations or not, and single or double chart
2. impales, slashes, and crushes
3. magic systems used
4. common sorcerous manipulations
5. special combat tactics
6. martial arts
7. experience dice (1d6, 1d10, 3d6, etc, with larger increases for
games with big time-scale, like annual adventures, or games where
the GM wants PCs to advance quickly. This could change in mid-
campaign)
8. fatigue and encumbrance
9. botches and good successes
10. fancy visual effects of spells
11. renown and personality skills
12. single-difficulty skills, or multiple difficulties
13. weapon damage to AP
14. figures and battleboard or not
15. common or uncommon magic for "just plain folks"
16. training time (multipliers if you want to de-emphasize training)
17. approximate time scale (1:1, 1:7, year:session, etc)
And so on...
whoah,
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Loren Miller internet: MILLERL@wharton.upenn.edu
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