From: David Dunham (ddunham@radiomail.net)
Date: Wed 02 Feb 1994 - 07:20:07 EET
David Cake <davidc@cs.uwa.oz.au> said:
>I am in favour of making the Divine
>magic Rune Lord/Acolyte/Priest rules deliberately vague (so that GOG is
>assumed to supersede where appropiate)
I would assume that RQ:AiG, being a later work, supersedes. Obviously, this
sort of thing should NOT be left to assumption, but clearly stated.
>in order to ensure that valuable old supplements do not need to
>be reissued, I suggest a bold step - including all the updated parts in RQ:AiG
>This could take a fair few pages, aybe 10 or so -BUT THINK OF THE ALTERNATIVE.
>Waiting 3 years before AH/Chaosium get around to reissueing Elder Secrets and
>the Players book of Genertela. I think that all the character creation rules
>from both these supplements - including all the silly non-humans - should
>be included in RQ-AiG, along with any updates to old supplements deemed
>necessary. Only the absolute minimum of rules is needed, no description or
>whatever.
I imagine nothing will be reissued as a result of new rules. We're far
better off getting new works.
[broken record warning] And once again, an otherwise good idea ends up
bulking up RQ:AiG. This is going to end up as a monster work that will be
so big that nobody can find anything, and beginners are going to steer
clear of.
Let's say we want to double the RQ players. That means (at least) half of
all copies have to sell to people who already have them. It's a mistake to
design the game for those who already like it. We like what there is. The
people who didn't like it don't like what there is. Therefore, it should be
different somehow. Obviously, putting back a cool default world is one
difference. But I'll bet more people are turned off by RuneQuest being too
complex for their tastes than by it being not detailed enough.
I don't believe you can do Glorantha justice in a single volume. There's
nothing wrong with supplements, and those supplements could eaily overlap
existing ones and provide more detail.
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