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Post by mao on Aug 7, 2018 10:03:07 GMT -5
So a friend I played w once in a while wanted to run Runequest, I had read the rules and was slightly interested. So my boyhood pal Chris and I showed up and went through the books and decided to play identical twin centaur archers. So did the DM say" Centaurs are too powerful" Nope and proceeded to cut both our right arms in the first combat.
Kinda left a bad taste in my mouth
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Aug 7, 2018 10:37:43 GMT -5
Though combat is deadly in OD&D it can be exceedingly brutal in RuneQuest which is something it shares with Rolemaster. If you thought RuneQuest was bad try Rolemaster; here is a sample critical: [roll of 87-89 with a slash critical] Destroy one eye. +10 hits. Stunned for 30 rounds. I like Rolemaster but the charts can make combat slog as will the math for other tests (skills & resistance roll), RuneQuest seems less finicky by comparison but still very brutal. I am pretty sure I'll not run Rolemaster again in a Face-to-Face game but I might in PbP; that said I have to still read through my RuneQuest PDFs to see if the crunch level is too high for me to run face-to-face but I'd run it PbP for sure.
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Post by mao on Aug 7, 2018 10:44:45 GMT -5
Though combat is deadly in OD&D it can be exceedingly brutal in RuneQuest which is something it shares with Rolemaster. If you thought RuneQuest was bad try Rolemaster; here is a sample critical: [roll of 87-89 with a slash critical] Destroy one eye. +10 hits. Stunned for 30 rounds. I like Rolemaster but the charts can make combat slog as will the math for other tests (skills & resistance roll), RuneQuest seems less finicky by comparison but still very brutal. I am pretty sure I'll not run Rolemaster again in a Face-to-Face game but I might in PbP; that said I have to still read through my RuneQuest PDFs to see if the crunch level is too high for me to run face-to-face but I'd run it PbP for sure. I played a PBP w no DM, was a lot of fun |
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Aug 7, 2018 11:21:19 GMT -5
RuneQuest or Rolemaster?
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Post by mao on Aug 7, 2018 11:52:20 GMT -5
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Aug 7, 2018 12:44:48 GMT -5
Nice, if you can tell us a bit about it mao. |
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Post by mao on Aug 7, 2018 12:50:44 GMT -5
Um let's see..... It was a caravan doing a tour of some of the published towns. I posted a lot in a thread that was titled "Dawn of Darkness", hinting about a liche that I was going to wreak hell w. One of the other main guys Did a few combat encounters , that he bowled over. I had some wicked dudes and one "paladin" in the caravan, thats about all I can remember.
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