Our longest campaign was with RuneQuest back in 1981 until 2000.

@sullyb23511

3 жыл бұрын

😮😮😮😮😮😮

@lumbermac5998

3 жыл бұрын

I’m jealous

@nicholashurst780

3 жыл бұрын

And how many generations?

There's an easy fix you can borrow from WFRP: instead of adding an extra roll for a hit location, just reverse the to hit roll to see where you hit...so a roll of 35 is a 53.

@davidbrennan660

10 ай бұрын

I just roll to hits and location at the same time... hopefully you can use the D20 each to hit.

Ah, Runequest: the “Everyone ends up as an amputee” game.

@richmcgee434

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, that's what Heal 6 and Regrow Limb are for. :) Now Rolemaster, there's a game that really likes destroying internal organs and severing limbs.

@Ektalon

3 жыл бұрын

@@richmcgee434 War story: I was playing in a game of StarMaster(RoleMaster for sci-fi) as Artemis Tesseract, xenoarcheologist, years ago. Exploring a cave, he had a Great Dane sized amoeba drop on him, scoring a critical. One quick roll of 66 on the critical table and Artemis, made fresh for the campaign, was dead from a broken neck and covered with amoeba goo.

@Dracopol

3 жыл бұрын

Not everyone! Just 200 out of an army of 10,000. 100 of them cut their own heads off. Follow the Critical Fumble tables, lol!

@danguillou713

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, you reattach them with heal6. Leaves a ring formed scar. Old warriors have a lot of arm rings.

@Ektalon

2 жыл бұрын

@@danguillou713 Didn't help the starting amputee party I was in!

"... Holy crap that idol is alive!" I rewatched that scene like 7 times lol. Loved it. Great video!

One of the best running RPG channels!

My favorite thing about RQ is that you can cast a spell that lasts over 1000 years.

Heh. That story about the Stone Woman turning out to be related to...Ernalda, I'm guessing? Maybe Asrelia? ...is priceless. And very typical of the way the lesser deities in Glorantha are always on the lookout for new worshippers, even when it's mostly a pragmatic thing rather than great devotion. Most characters wind up being lay members of multiple cults over time, and maybe even initiates to closely allied ones. Really makes the mythic side of the background come alive.

@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus

Жыл бұрын

I really did love that twist I need to use that more in games with pantheons

*I would really love it if you did more RuneQuest roleplaying in glorantha .* *I would watch , like , comment , share & save to a playlist all of them .*

My only experience with Glorantha was in the old video game King of Dragon Pass (which I only happened upon a few years back). It was quite the fascinating setting. I wish I had the time (or the group) to try out Runequest.

Thanks for shouting out Bud. He puts in a lot of effort explaining things in detail in his reviews.

Jack the NPC is such a cool character.

Great review, Runequest and Glorantha are a shinig example of a greeat alternative to standard D20 clnones. There is one specific blooper: 17:06 - Nobody in Glorantha has Steel, it is a (magic) bronze-age world! :-)

I would LOVE to see more Runequest content like this.

@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec

2 жыл бұрын

If seth does not get on it. I will.

Comment for algorithms because I don't have time to watch right now. Love you Seth

I have the Avalon Hill version of RuneQuest. I have never done anything with, but now I'll give it another chance.

Love these videos. Great for chilling out and resting

Small but cool tip: You do not need a second roll to determine hit location if you just take your hit roll and reverse the dice order. Example: roll 1D100 - got a 19 (so I hit) - hit location is 91 (something like left leg or foot)

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

That will significantly change what body parts are getting hit frequently. Take your example reversed - few PCs hit on a 91, so whatever a 19 hit location is will almost never get tagged. Not saying you can't do it, but be aware that it plays merry hell with the odds of head hits, in particular.

@Dracopol

4 жыл бұрын

In old RuneQuest, hit-location was a 20-sided die on a table for human, humanoid or other body-shapes. Is this quickstart different?

Yes! I have been waiting for this video! oh and minor spoiler... I replaced the rock lizards with giant toads using pretty much the same stats and it was a lot more fun.

Game sounds interesting, must admit I haven't heard much - if anything - about it before. So thanks for the introduction. Another note for you, Seth: We finally made it through the "oneshot" for Cthulhu Incivtus (took us three sessions of three hours each on average, problem with having very busy players). The players all had a little familiarity with CoC in general but little experience with the setting. However, that ended up being the strongest selling point for everyone. Roman era just hit home and we had a lot of fun with that, like finding fun traditions, encountering huge cultural disparities, learning that things alien to us might not be alien to romans (and vice versa) and hitting one's head on the fact that some things we take for granted today did not exist back then (specifically passenger ships, that was a bit of a speed bump for my players). I will run the same module again next Saturday, hope the other group likes it as well. One of the players was really sad that this was adapted in a game that was so inherently lethal because he was wishing for a long campaign with a set party afterwards. Matter of fact, noone died or went insane, the players were so careful (and a good bit of lucky with the dice as well) that nothing really happened to them. :) Stay healthy, everyone.

I just got into this system and started making some videos on how one can get into it. RG:Q does have a ton of lore, as they say, YGMV (your glorantha may vary) and you can disregard it all. My personal favorite fantasy system right now, I freaking love it:)

@ravenshadowz2343

4 жыл бұрын

Are your videos uploaded to KZread?

@danielprofeta

4 жыл бұрын

@@ravenshadowz2343 Yes sir:) I did a miniseries on "How to get into Rune Quest: Glorantha...

@silvicdagar870

4 жыл бұрын

I actually got the slipcase set from your unboxing video on runequest! Pretty surprised to find you here, but keep up the great work.

Enjoyed the review and your perspective on the system and the adventure.

Elder game geek here: I still have my copy of the original _Runequest_ that came out decades ago.

@Dracopol

4 жыл бұрын

I owned the 3rd-edition game which was actually published by Avalon Hill in collaboration with Chaosium, and seemed to give a richer (or at least different) production value. There were 3 types of magic, each practitioner recognizing the reality and power of the other two but faintly dissing them as well: Spirit magic (shamans communing with spirits), Divine magic (clerics, almost sure to succeed but they must ask for spells from their gods correctly) and Sorcery (magic-user spells, slowly built up in skill but each spell is scalable to increase duration, range and power to fabulous levels). Spells might have a low chance to work if cast on the fly, but your chances could improve if you had the time for rituals to accumulate and properly store spell power. The game box had five booklets and offered a Glorantha setting summary but also notes on a fantasy Europe setting.

@Lazysupermutant

4 жыл бұрын

I'm incredibly jealous of you I'm not going to lie, for me and my nerd holy Grail is a fully boxed set of the first edition of dark sun, one day....

@peterlewerin4213

4 жыл бұрын

I have the Chaosium "Classic" 1978 2nd edition hardcover. A friend asked a friend who went to USA to pick one up for me in 1982 or so: at that time the Games Workshop paperback with the silly-looking bikini girl on the cover was the only edition that was available in Sweden. Very nearly the only book I read in high school.

I've been playing Chaosium games since the early 80s, so, honestly, I was happy to see them retain the Resistance Table and 3-18 stats. Those particular changes in CoC 7e for me fell onto the "no harm, but not needed" list of changes.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@mouser4290

4 жыл бұрын

Same use to run RuneQuest with a Hyborian setting mid characters at cons in the 80s.

Fun fact; in the 1980's RuneQuest inspired the emerging Swedish roleplaying scene and a company made two games using BRP. Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons, I know, totes original) which started as your stock fantasy game and then evolved into its own developed setting, and Mutant, a post apocalyptic game. Both games are still going strong, and it was only in 2014 that one of the games started using a different system. And Swedish DoD kept the duck people. Speaking of which, I would absolutely love to see you try out Mutant: Year Zero.

@ProfBoggs

3 жыл бұрын

They got removed the duck people!?!

I'd love to hear more about what you thought about the system and how it worked. What exactly don't you like about the resistance table mechanic? Not streamlined enough? There's a lot about the adventure that I like (talking with Lannike's ghost, the sprul-pa, and the Stone Woman encounter), though I haven't run it. Regarding what you found disappointing: what about providing the PCs with the early option of going directly to the Greydogs to confront their leaders - only to find that a) Danakos was operating on his own initiative and had ticked off his elders, b) his band hadn't shown up, and c) then have an elder of some variety provide some very basic info about the hills that they suspect that Danakos went through and might be hiding in. Throw in a duel or fist fight with a couple of hothead young warriors trying to prove themselves; a little light action that gets stopped before it goes too far and provides a little more insight into life in Glorantha, at least among the Sartarites. Then the PCs can continue on while now acting on behalf of both clans to find and reign in Danakos (though this set-up would probably mean missing the Cathalo and Lannike scene.) Another possibility for injecting a quick early combat (and very close to what you suggested): tie the rock lizards in with discovering Lannike's corpse, i.e. the PCs find them beginning to feed on her (hopefully providing the PCs with extra incentive to spring into action, etc.) As for future quickstart adventures, supposedly Chaosium's coming out with a Runequest Starter Set before 2020 is out.

Played 2nd edition for years. Pretty much every Chaosium game tbh. Also, Glorantha is amazing. And Cults of Terror was my favorite supplement.

Feels like an interesting but light intro adventure. Thanks for sharing.

Holy shit. Lately its like you've been making content based on a list of content that I want to see.

@astonmikedelgado

4 жыл бұрын

RQ is by far the most slept on system and gets next to no coverage outside a handful of enthusiast on KZread. My friend bought me the GM’s and Bestiary and I opted to get the GM pack. I feel the system itself just plays better and the setting is so unique that imo lends to easier immersion. I won’t even go into how cool 😎 combat is. Im looking for interested players and hope to run a campaign come September. Anybody game just let me know 😇

Seth, thank you for all of the great content. You are my favorite youtuber and I look forward to every video. I look forward to reading your books in the next few weeks.

Hey seth, Chaosium has a free quest called" the rattling wind" which is much better. Its still free if you google or search it on their site

@mycaleb8

4 жыл бұрын

This, absolutely.

@davidbrennan660

4 жыл бұрын

It has Ducks.... what more can you want? Them is tasty.

@foxross

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for that. I will definitely be using it.

I have that from a game con three years back. Steve Perrin talked about it at a seminar I attended.

12:49 Lol, I was thinking exactly this while watching when you brought up Carthalo.

Sety, I have now watched every video of your. So you are obligated by law to produce more RPG reviews. I am waiting eagerly.

Tula intensifies. But seriously, turns out that RuneQuest is the RPG that the much acclaimed King of Dragon Pass hails from. If you're familiar with that game, RuneQuest fleshes out the world - especially the excellent mythology - much more.

I think the design intent of the latest edition of RuneQuest was to make it as compatible as possible with the classic 2nd edition of the game. As such, there wasn’t a desire to include rules from Call of Cthulhu 7E. The games' respective settings are almost opposite in terms of theme and mythology, so they’d never really be used for crossover material and are each their own thing.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

Prior to CoC 7th I have absolutely borrowed monsters from both games for crossover work in the past and had it work fine. Gorp and giant insects are dandy CoC critters, and Chaos justifies weirder things than servitors of the Outer Gods or flame vampires, and that's just to name a few. Wouldn't want to have Cthuhu dig himself out from under the Block or a Malia cult show up in Arkham, but there's enough things not tied to their home setting to be useful.

I realize this video is a couple of years old but I'd love to see more RQ from you....

Runequest and Traveller, it's like the 80's never ended. Good changes. Good direction.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. If he starts a series on The Fantasy Trip next I'm going to have to double check my calendar. :)

I'm so excited that you and Bud are gaming together I've been a fan of both channels for a long time and seeing you two together along with the others is amazing! Thank you for this!

Excellent, another RPG to try out. And another channel to sub to. Sooooo many subs now! I need to stop doing that, lol Subbed 😀

Strictly speaking BRP is based on RuneQuest rather than the other way around. The first BRP (by that name, anyway) was found in the Worlds of Wonder boxed set (1982), which introduced the use of that engine as a generic engine. And this game is directly aimed at existing RQ fans (the price point isn't really conducive to new tire kickers). The original version was a direct response to the perceived silliness of D&D and found its market first among people who felt the same way. "Armor doesn't make you harder to hit, it makes you harder to hurt!" I have many problems with this edition, mostly with the technical writing side. For the age of the system, there's really no reason that basic elements of the game system couldn't be better explained. The character creation system is very hard to follow, even for experienced RQ players. Rules are arbitrarily placed, so even where the rules are unambiguous once found, it's very hard to find them when you need them. And the index is a travesty; possibly the worst I've ever seen in any game that made any attempt at an index. But I love it anyway. As to the adventure, I mostly agree that it could use a bit more action, especially early on. But I think it's important to remember just how randomly lethal the system can be; a special hit to the wrong location can kill a character with a single hit. FWIW, as a player, it didn't feel especially railroady to me, particularly for a first adventure in a new system. It did a pretty decent job of giving examples of many of the basic mechanisms and demonstrations of how the clan-based society works. I think the adventure is pretty strong for what it is. (I wouldn't feel the same if it were used midway through an extended campaign.)

@edlaprade

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. WoW was great, if short. After all, it had three different 'games' in one.

@astonmikedelgado

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the presentation itself made it harder to find specific info and character creation took longer than it would in other more mainstream systems. BRP for me just plays better for those seeking more realistic narratives and tense 😬 combat. The guide to Glorantha is a must in my opinion for both GMs and players as it really helps you imagine this remarkable setting.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

@@edlaprade Agreed. I'm still vaguely annoyed that they spun it out into full games via Superworld and of course Runequest, but never did a "full-length" take on the Future World book. It wasn't terrific and maybe some of my fond memories are coming from that one "robot safari" adventure Space Gamer did for FW, but Chaosium's lack of a generic scifi RPG always felt like they;d missed an opportunity. Hacking Ringworld for the job was kind of a big ask back then, it was very setting-specific.

@Dracopol

4 жыл бұрын

@@richmcgee434 Since they can't use the Ringworld licence any more, maybe they had more SF information in the big Basic RolePlaying hardcover?

@0:28 How do you emote and converse so well talking to nothing? Seth, one of these days I hope you do a behind-the-scenes on your acting. Your skills make this one-person-show so entertaining, and also, some GMs might like to know.

Seth, I just wanted you to know, that you are the sole reason I got into Call of Cthulhu TTRPG. I had shied away from it for years and after watching your 8 part series on it, decided to grab the core components (after running the solo adventure) and have loved it ever since. It's so much less cumbersome than other systems and allows me to tell the kinda stories that I love, horror.

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help. It's such a great game.

I remember seeing RuneQuest ads in Dragon magazine way back in the 1980s. Cool to see it's still around.

RuneQuest II in the early '80s we used to roll all the dice at one time. So percentile dice read blue to clear => Attack, clear to blue => Parry; red d20 = location, and damage dice can be ignored if the attack fails.

Never had a chance to try Runequest. Thanks for the great overview.

Thanks Seth! Stay healthy man.

‘It’s too focused on telling the players a story rather than having the players create a story’ - Seth nails it right there. That is one of the major pitfalls of Runequest/Glorantha material - all this amazing background that you only get to look at or get railroaded by.

@konberner170

4 жыл бұрын

Might be true of the quickstart, but I've been playing the system/setting since 1979 and you couldn't be more wrong about the system in general. You can do anything you want, and I had a plasma blaster in a game (gained by magic from another dimension) after about 1 year of GMing it. Any system with a lot of background material can be one where you try to play it close to the lore or vary from it. Having a lot of lore doesn't mean you have to follow it. I also recall one of the early adventures, Apple Lane, and comparing how different GMs played it out... plenty of variety. In any case, the system is by Steve Perrin, and has been adapted for many, many RPGs, including Seth's beloved Call of Cthulhu.

@Erdnase23

4 жыл бұрын

@@konberner170 You misunderstand me. I'm not talking about the system, I love the system, it's my FAVOURITE system - it's apotheosis for me being Mythras by the Design Mechanism (check out the amazing Lyonesse game that was just released...) It's the published material and style of play that I'm talking about. And regardless of 'witnessing' big Gloranthan events (which feels like tourism not gripping play), I don't want to play games where it all boils down to your character's obligations to his tribe. And if another campaign involves f***ing cows.... I want to - and do - play 'gritty Glorantha' in the Griselda stories style. Hopefully Robin D Laws upcoming epic Pavis and Rubble book will lean more heavily into that style of play: gritty, loose and player-centric . Unless there's a f***ing cow market that's now central to life in Pavis...

@mycaleb8

4 жыл бұрын

That has more to do with the players or GMs. Any setting as well developed as Glorantha is going to leave it's fans reluctant to go off the beaten path. But plenty of people can and do take the story in the direction they want, and change the world around them while staying faithful to the Lore.

@WOranos

4 жыл бұрын

@@Erdnase23 I've participated in nearly all of the big events of the Third Age at some point or another and never really felt like I was inconsequential. If you're a heroquester, your actions are never without consequence.

I always wondered if you were into runequest or not! Seth is the greatest!

It's so interesting how a game using the same system as another can still be so different. I guess that's just how versatile BRP rules are.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

It's hard to find anything you can't do with a percentile skill-based system. At least as versatile as GURPS, and GURPS was built from the ground up to do everything.

I've never really liked DnD, but Runequest is fucking awesome! I wholeheartedly recommend it.

You should try Greg Stafford's other game one of these days, and that is King Arthur Pendragon RPG. Masterpiece of game design, even GS thought so

I believe there is a downloadable variant of the quickstart characters that's a 4 page design intended as the folder style for demo games. I remember glancing at them when considering what game to try during one of the local game stores demo days that they have every so often. The portrait and backstory were on the front, the middle two were stats and the back was a "cheat sheet" for things. For the early combat option, perhaps add another lizard encounter (or shift it) and have it scavenging on bodies there.

I love that bud is getting more attention... he's my go to guy when I wanna learn delta green

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

Bud is good people. He just ran me through Delta Green last week.

@pencilmage

4 жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky now i'm just envious

I have the full editions of CoC and Runequest and I experienced the same confusion with the rules. I would have also really preferred that Chaosium maintained CoC's rule styles. Beyond that, Runequest is fantastic. My favorite aspect is the ability to put players into wild scenarios involving petty god squabbles similar to those we find in real world mythology.

@Dracopol

4 жыл бұрын

I think the error is on Call of Cthulhu for making serious changes rather than RuneQuest for not changing so much. Sticking an Advantage dice/Disadvantage dice mechanism in a modern edition of D&D or CoC abdicates responsibility for thinking about which tactical combat choices improve the roll by a little and which improve it by a lot. A table of Combat Modifiers like in earlier editions of RuneQuest makes more sense for the gritty, manual combat of a fantasy or bronze-age game. More to learn, but quit bellyaching and LEARN it!

I hope Chaosium send you a review copy of the The Runequest Starter Set when it comes out

You taking a look at the Starter Set, Seth? I'd definitely be in favour of you reviewing that.

Runequest is one of the games I picked up in the 80’s. My group played a seven year campaign starting in Prax as River voices Intiates of a river god. It is a crunchy game that I will probably run in a year or so. Chaosium makes some fun games.

Ducks, broos and a missing arm.....Glorious!

Will surely try it!

I've gotten into the habit of rolling the location die and the damage dice with my to-hit roll. "46 that is a success to the 11 for 8 points."

@NefariousKoel

4 жыл бұрын

I also picked up the custom hit location d20 for the newest version. A bit on the large side, but very convenient. No table look-up. Likewise for the 2d20/Conan hit location die.

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

That will certainly speed things up.

@antieverything1

4 жыл бұрын

I've considered going that direction as well--more dice is more funner, after all.

@Bryon1187

4 жыл бұрын

@@antieverything1 Amen!

Lol I love how you edit your vids lol

I still have my old Runequest stuff. Great system!

I was waiting for this videos since that stream was announced. I hope you also do a reviews of both the Delta Green scenario you're playing with Bud and the Peru Chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep (how we roll podcast). BTW, is that a new camera?, also, video guy, I really appreciate how you composed the main shot on this episode, without so much empty space on top. All the best from Chile Seth! P.S: are you getting the Runequest Core Rulebook? It's amazing, I got the slipcase a couple months ago (after Bud reccomended it) and it's super cool.

@SSkorkowsky

4 жыл бұрын

Camera was a christmas present to myself. Much better than the crappy phone camera I'd been using. I'm about 38% competent with it. Bud's was one he wrote himself, so nothing to review. I just got to play and have fun, which was pretty cool. Masks... dunno. I mean it'd be kinda weird to only review the first chapter of a campaign, so I'll just have to hold off on that until the day (if) my group and I ever run the full campaign. That's a big if, as we have a lot of other stuff we're enjoying playing at the moment.

@felipeopazomusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@SSkorkowsky if you need any help with the camera stuff, I'd be glad to help! You can DM me on your Patreon if you want. I think covering the Peru Chapter wouldn't be weird at all, since it's a prequel/setup scenario, I'm sure it'd be very welcome among your followers.

@Bryon1187

4 жыл бұрын

Is there a link to the DG game - I'd love to check that out.

@felipeopazomusic

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bryon1187 kzread.info/dash/bejne/aZmds9CHiK-oZJM.html

@Bryon1187

4 жыл бұрын

@@felipeopazomusic Thanks!!

I would love to try out RuneQuest as a huge Call of Cthulhu fan and avid keeper, thanks to your channel. I have several potential players that are not interested in the horror element of Cthulhu. Thank you so much for this review of the system, it looks rad. Any chance you’ll try running another RuneQuest game to see if there is a better scenario that might be a good introduction to the system?

Please do a review of broken shield 2.0. love your reviews

Quick hit locations without additional rolls: Reverse attack die roll (if roll is 18, then 81, etc) HEAD (1-10) RIGHT ARM (11-20) LEFT ARM (21-30) BODY (31-70) RIGHT LEG (71-85) LEFT LEG (86-00)

I suspect that Jack the NPC is actually Seth Skorkowsky wearing a costume. My reasons for thinking this is that you can see the helmet in the background when Seth is giving his review/overview. Hmm, they don't call me "Ian the quick" for nothing.

Battle Cattle! The cows are coming home, and they're packing!

More runequest please

Looking forward to more vids about Glorantha

@Wolfphototech

3 жыл бұрын

Me to . Reply to boost this video .

Its sort of Bronze age RQ had some cultures that where more advanced the Lunars for example and you did have some anachronisms like the pool table in Apple Lane

I agree. Battle buffalo is a great hook!

Love rune quest. This was my second role play game I bought in the very early 1980s after traveller. I have most versions but the latest is a beautiful system for telling a story with characters guided by their gods and passions. It is clear the system has taken alot of ideas from greg Stafford masterpiece Pendragon and helped realise Greg's long time wish to portray a bronze age world. I think Seth would simply love the the full rule book which is one of the most beautiful role books I have ever bought.

Hello Seth, Internet here... see what I did there. But seriously, great work as always. Been rewatching all of your videos keeping me entertained at work during these times. Did you upgrade your camera gear? This looks crisper than previous vids. Also, have you read or plan on playing Cold Fire Within? I'm considering buying it but can't find any good reviews/comments on it?

I love Runequest.Glorantha is exciting!

Passions are cool. Being able to draw extra bonuses, with the caveat that the GM might make you roll vs your passion if they think you are going against it. Stops them being free and easy "Feats". In Mythras "Classic Fantasy" (Basically the Runequest clones version of an AD&D clone... it's complicated... ) Alignments are Passions, so your alignment can actually have a mechanical impact on the game while one character may literally be "More :Lawful Good" than another...

Whoa party on dude!!however my hair is already over a meter long so lock down has no effect!

So happy that this system have a counter system to Murderhobo

i mean, sounds fun Seth, i would love to watch a series of review about this game for sure

If you want more RuneQuest RolePlaying in Glorantha at a cheap price. Look into the starter set m You get a set of dice. 4 books. 1 Starter rules book ( 61 pages ) 1 Would lore , setting book ( 61 pages ) 1 solo adventure book ( 57 pages ) 1 group adventures book with multiple adventures ( 81 pages ) 14 ready made character sheets ( cabinet style ) 2 blank character sheets ( Cabinet style ) 3 maps ( the region , jonstown & rainbow mounds ) An several cheat sheets & handouts . I have a video of me showing it off that will go live on May 9th 2022 .

I concur! How come you didn't mention Battle Buffalo!?

I haven't played CoC for a while - how does CoC resolve contests of one characteristic vs another? Is there a formula?

I learned about Runequest through a game called "King of Dragon Pass". I absolutely loved the world in that game. It is very mysterious and it truly feels mystical, while also having enough humour not to take itself too seriously. I especially love how the games are the type who just "do stuff". Stuff like "steal the sky", "Lift the ocean", "forge something out of abstract stuff". Don't know how good of a representation that game is to the canonical setting, but it did make me very interested in this game

I really want to run a bronze-age style of game, just like your friend. However, I think I also know why he never followed through. I got the quick start rules for Runequest and did my best to parse them, but I just wasn't getting it. Worth noting, I haven't run or gotten to play a Call of Cthulhu game. However, I have 7th edition, along with some of the published adventures and am just aching to get a game going (got stuff already in the works with my group, so I have to wait for an opening). But after reading it (and playing through the solo adventure) I _get_ CofC 7E. I'm sure if I get around to finally running it I'll discover a lot of stuff I don't understand as well as I currently think I do, but I feel confident that I could find the answers and make it through. I do not feel the same about RQ. So, yeah, the quick start didn't help me any. But I've had some quick start guides before that weren't that great. So I bit the bullet and bought the core book. Granted, I knew I wasn't going to get a chance to run this anytime soon, but bronze-age is something I've wanted to do, and do well, for many years now, so it wasn't such a crazy thing to get it now and familiarize myself with it way, way ahead of time. So I read the core book. And I still don't get it. Not the way I usually can grok a system, more or less, on the first pass. I'll have a general idea of how it works, know the bits I need to dig into more on future passes, but all in all I'll have an idea of what it "looks like" as a system. I had to read Scum And Villainy (FitD) all the way through twice and take notes, but it did click like 70% on the first pass. I just don't have that with Runequest. I'm thinking that at some point here I'll take another pass through the core book. One thing I would _want_ to do, as brough up by Seth, is adjust the attribute/ability ratings to be inline with CofC 7E as well as include the higher difficulties for skills because it really is a more elegant way of handling it. And the bonus dice mechanic is pretty much all over now (under various terminology) so it is odd that it was left out of RQ. But before tinkering, I just need to get a grasp on the core. ... The depth of character creation is superb, though, I genuinely like that even if it is rather involved. And the narrative setting hits a superb tone, as well.

So, the rules day that DEX and SIZ have an effect on initiative, but I couldn't find where they explained how that works. Any ideas?

Never played Runequest, but always wanted to. I played Call of Cthulhu and the Conan RPG from Chaosium back in the day and enjoyed the more active combat system than D&D. I guess the difference could be compared to tab targeting vs action combat in modern MMORPGs.

I’ve loved Runequest since the 80s. It’s a great system, but can be very deadly. My group took to calling it ruined quest. The latest addition is beautiful, much like Call of Cthulhu 7e. It’s expensive, but worth it.

A starter set is due out

Awesome!

Been wanting a RuneQuest review ever since LindyBeige mentioned it as DnD done right.

Being a player of RQ2, perhaps Chaosium retained some of the original rules to appeal to the "old guard", rather than streamlining it with CoC7. I'm okay with (beneficial) changes - such as ransom and so on - but some might be wary.

Hey, if your hair is getting long again, does that mean we might see the return of cavalier/bard Jack with the ostrich-plume hat?

can I use the monsters in RQ and transpose them into CoC?

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

I've done that in earlier editions (and vice versa) and it worked okay, but I'm not positive about CoC 7th, which is a little divergent from RQ these days.

I appreciate that you cover a wide range of RPGs. I'd love to see a review of a mecha game if you're taking suggestions.

Hell yes a review

Have you ever played anything from the Palladium game system?

Nice. I just finished reading Anabasis, so I've got an itch for some Bronze Age stuff. Also, is it just me or has Seth been losing weight these past few videos?

But where are the Ducks? And what do you mean, "Taste my steel?" Bronze is where its at! Actually, RQ was the first game I ever GMed, even though I started with D&D as a player. I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention the possibility of getting, literally, hacked to pieces in this game. Stay safe everyone!

@richmcgee434

4 жыл бұрын

The ducks are where they always are...paddling around Delecti's swamp, keeping an eye on what he's up to and getting zero credit for keeping the zombie apocalypse from starting. They get less respect than Rodney Dangerfield.

I’m so glad you played. I play both Runequest and Cthulhu and yes it can be confusing

"Play Runequest, you get to ride Battle Buffalo!" Yeah! You instantly got my attention if there's a chance you can run into a fancy haired warrior riding on just the craziest animal you can think of. Love your videos, you're cyberpunk red one is what made mw decide to get the jumpstart kit. You really have been giving me all kinds of ideas since I first found your channel.