battlematt
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Post by battlematt on Sept 10, 2018 0:04:35 GMT -8
I hadn't heard anything about Stu's new cosmic horror setting before. Was this the first time it was mentioned on the podcast? Sounds intriguing for sure! You go Stu!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2018 3:01:17 GMT -8
I think this was the first time it was mentioned though he did post about it recently, might have been in the con game recap.
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nanoboy
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Post by nanoboy on Sept 10, 2018 19:21:40 GMT -8
Also, Stu has played that ending music before, and I really dig the song. Anyone know if I can buy it anywhere?
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fredrix
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Preferred Game Systems: Fate, L5R, Pendragon, Gumshoe, Feng Shui
Currently Playing: Pendragon, Song of Ice and Fire, L5R, Feng Shui, Traveller
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Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Sept 11, 2018 0:26:55 GMT -8
Oh! Your poor innocent children! All confusticated by Runequest! Let grandpa Fredrix, patronise you with a brief history. 1966 or thereabouts. Greg Stafford (probably) smokes some drugs and reads some books and comes up with the world Glorantha Founds The Chaosium and White Bear Red Moon, a boardgame is introduced. 1978 Greg gets together with Steve Perrin to produce Runequest, set in Glorantha 1979 A 2nd edition of Runequest is made which many regard as the best. Still set in Glorantha. 1980 me and my friends start playing living the skill based profession over levels and classes. 1981 (I think) Basic Roleplaying is produced. Oh and around this time Drakar and Demoner, a Swedish version of BRP, but including ducks from Glorantha kicks off the whole RPG thing over there. Greg Stafford licences the RQ brand to “the big international company” Avalon Hill. This is generally regarded as a mistake. They produce a third edition set in Mythic Europe. The long slow death of RQ begins. Fans of Glorantha on the other hand keep Glorantha alive in various ways. Mid nineties Stafford sets up Issaries inc. but without the RQ brand, commissions Robin D Laws to write HeroWars, a narrative system which becomes (after the death of the completely unrelated boardgame) HeroQuest Eventually RQ is licenced by Mongoose and rewritten by a couple of Brits, to be a generic system. Mongoose lose the licence (to the Brits who rewrote it) and continue to publish it under the Legend brand. The Brits form the Design Mechanism and publish RuneQuest 6. Meanwhile Chaosium kinda goes bust over the Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter and gets bailed out, first by Greg Stafford and Sandy Peterson, and then by the guys at Moon Design who have been keeping Glorantha commercially alive. “New” Chaosium considers bringing RQ 6 back in house. But ultimately decide it has gone to far from its roots. Design Mechanism lose the licence, but continue publishing their rules under the Mythos brand. Chaosium write RuneQuest Glorantha as a sort of new third edition, based on RQ second Ed (not RQ2, which was one of the Mongoose versions). 2018 RuneQuest Glorthantha is really cool.
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fredrix
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Favorite Species of Monkey: 1970's NTV, dubbed by the BBC (though The Water Margin beats it)
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Post by fredrix on Sept 11, 2018 0:31:07 GMT -8
So interestingly there are now three ways to Roleplay in Glorantha. HeroQuest for hippy gamer scum. Narrative keywords etc. 13th Age in Glorantha for gamist babies who can’t let go of their d20, classes, levels and all that shit. And, RuneQuest Glorantha for simulationists, crazily trying to model “real world” conflict in a made up world.
All official. All supported by Chaosium.
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Post by weaselcreature on Sept 11, 2018 12:22:05 GMT -8
Also, Stu has played that ending music before, and I really dig the song. Anyone know if I can buy it anywhere? That's "The Coal Miner Song" from Stu's Celtic Squall band. www.amazon.com/Celtic-Squall/dp/B001T46WC6
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Post by uncommonman on Sept 13, 2018 1:04:08 GMT -8
If you want a "Lost fleet" type of space combat you could rip off a good dueling mechanic from another game.
The L5R duel rules would work perfectly with only some minor skill changes.
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fredrix
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Post by fredrix on Sept 13, 2018 1:24:24 GMT -8
If you want a "Lost fleet" type of space combat you could rip off a good dueling mechanic from another game. The L5R duel rules would work perfectly with only some minor skill changes. Yeah and different crew members could make the rolls.
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