... Personally I'd avoid using ST & TR if you're going to start using Sartar. They introduce a level of complexity into the cults that isn't there in Sartar....
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Douglas Seay
douglas_seay
Dec 21, 2009 1:16 pm
... Two years doesn't matter that much for a source book, does it? For the adventures, sure. But not so much for how to play a Heortling in Sartar. The main...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 21, 2009 6:14 pm
... Wouldn't seem so. Pre-invasion would be the only significant difference, I would think, and even then not so much. ... *nod* This does seem a major shift,...
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osentalka
Dec 21, 2009 6:44 pm
... I like the series very much... the 1978 series that is. I am not interested in the new stuff. Same thing for Glorantha. I like my Glorantha as it is...
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manuel M
manuelmolinier
Dec 21, 2009 7:04 pm
Thanks to all for your advice. As my company decided to pay my salary earlier this month I just made the jump and bought the PDF to start with. The book will...
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Hal Bowman
hal_bowman1
Dec 21, 2009 7:48 pm
I have not purchased the HQ2 rules book yet and have questions that I didn't see answered in the previews, or at least I didn't understand the answers if they...
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Hal Bowman
hal_bowman1
Dec 21, 2009 7:48 pm
I don't know where else I should post this question, since I am not on Facebook. The Customer Service page on the web site seems to be about resolving...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 21, 2009 8:20 pm
... Not if you didn't already know what Broo were. The HQ2 rules are generic, and not Gloranthan. There is an appendix for Glorantha in the back, however. If...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 21, 2009 8:24 pm
... Heh. I am fond of both, actually. ... Eh. Having glanced at some old books, it seems it clearly gets reimaged piecemeal all the time. (We call it...
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Douglas Seay
douglas_seay
Dec 21, 2009 9:41 pm
... I don't do facebook either, so mailing lists work better for me. ... Nope. All the HW and HQ1 era books are being relegated to "historical curiosity"....
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dougiepunk
Dec 21, 2009 10:18 pm
I'll also add that Jeff's Moon Design blog at http://vingkot.livejournal.com/ has lots of news and there is also the official site at http://www.glorantha.com ...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 21, 2009 10:54 pm
... Ah. I was unaware of this announcement. So it HAS been "reimagined" as I asked. It is considered a fresh start, drawing from the past but in no way...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 21, 2009 10:54 pm
... OK, *that* is really fun and interesting. LC...
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dougiepunk
Dec 21, 2009 11:24 pm
... "Still, the Pavis one looks good. I wonder how much collaboration has been done with those nice Moon Design people and how much Second Age Pavis and Third...
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John Machin
orichalka
Dec 22, 2009 12:18 am
2009/12/21 David Scott sciencefish@... ... As long as you ignore all the mechanical bits (admittedly not that much in TR!) you can get a lot of mileage out...
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Michael Hitchens
mhitchens1963
Dec 22, 2009 1:26 am
... Hasn't Glorantha already been re-imaged about 3 times? ;-) Michael -- ... Dr. Michael Hitchens Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Macquarie...
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Sven Lugar
svenlugar
Dec 22, 2009 4:27 am
What - has someone done something to Greg's brain? Having known Greg for 40 years, I always thought Glorantha exists in the mental connection that Greg has to...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 22, 2009 4:32 am
Fun, fun, fun! LC...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 22, 2009 4:41 am
Also, if you don't care so much about the rulesy bits on the gods (and assuming they haven't done a complete rewrite on the gods) you get lots of cultural bits...
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Jeff
jeffrichard68
Dec 22, 2009 7:59 am
But much of that culture stuff and myths are also in Sartar, and better present, better organized. And there's a lot more in it as well. Together with the...
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Manuel MOLINIER
manuelmolinier
Dec 22, 2009 8:05 am
I read quickly the PDF and I like the presentation. From quick reading the keywords do not seem to have abilities written on them which might be a little more...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 22, 2009 8:08 am
... I agree with this. I have found that if the keyword isn't very clear in the mind of the person and GM, the no pre-set list can cause problems. Once you...
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Manuel MOLINIER
manuelmolinier
Dec 22, 2009 8:26 am
I ran a very good Starwars game using HQ2.0 and people really loved it. It's quite easy for them to visualize what someone with a keyword can do or not. In...
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L C
light.castle
Dec 22, 2009 8:28 am
Yes, exactly what I mean. :) LC...
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Jeff
jeffrichard68
Dec 22, 2009 10:57 am
... We have found though copious playtesting with different groups that people very quickly get used to the idea that the "hunter" keyword lets them do...
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osentalka
Dec 22, 2009 12:16 pm
... and ... abilities ... very ... whatever a hunter ... confused as many ... exemplary lists ... I can see both sides of the argument. If you give a player,...
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Manuel MOLINIER
manuelmolinier
Dec 22, 2009 12:53 pm
I fully agree. I think it require a short document explaining a little what the keyword is about without any game terminology reference. In this sense the...
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Jeff
jeffrichard68
Dec 22, 2009 1:15 pm
The question should be whether YOU found it confusing and difficult to grasp. In playtesting with newbies, we found that players unfamiliar with HW/HQ1 (and...
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Manuel MOLINIER
manuelmolinier
Dec 22, 2009 2:06 pm
Hi Jeff, I definitly agree that for people who never played any game with it HQ2 is way easier than HQ1/HW. I really love the game system and the people I...
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Greg Stafford
glorantha1
Dec 22, 2009 2:22 pm
YGWV ... I just want to reinforce the idea of having no lists to tell what a hunter or a farmer does. One of the biggest surprises to me was that people...
