Re: [RQ-Rules] More Dragon stuff

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From: Stephen Posey (slposey@concentric.net)
Date: Mon 17 Dec 2001 - 17:54:55 EET

MurfNMurf@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hey gang,
> While reading through a friend's copy of the MERP game in an effort
> to cadge spells for my RQ Sorcery document, I ran across their stats
> for Dragons.
> Though written in the mind-numbing ( _I_ couldn't make heads or
> tales out of them)MERP system, as I'd also been wondering about Dragon
> stats lately, I found them pretty interesting.
> Essentially the MERP Dragon is 90-120' long, with a wingspan 20%
> more than length, that can breath a cone of fire 300' long and 50'
> wide at the base.
> With the previously-mentioned Dragon rules in mind (STR&SIZ equal,
> CON=1/2 STR. AP= 2X damage dice), for laughs I decided to crank out
> RQ3 stats for this terror and see what I'd get.

<snip>

> Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup, Tolkien's dragons, while perhaps not as bad as a Gloranthan True
Dragon, are definitely nothing to mess with!

I'd be interested in seeing any notes and results of your RM/MERP to RQ
efforts, BTW.

Stephen Posey
slposey@concentric.net

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