Ahh, I knew it was coming out at some stage... I just didn't know that it would be the first thing!
As for the RQ thing, like so many other fans, we're actually a bit scared. The Avalhon Hill experience was of questionable value, to the point there are still die-hard fans of RQ II (from twenty five years ago!).
RuneQuest had flavour. Heaps of it. I picked up a copy of Cults of Prax the other week from the UK and was reading this magnificant narrative of a trader who travels among the different religions, and in the first page there's a description of meeting talking baboons who summon their ancestors around a big campfire.
Everything about it had the flavour of the bronze age, the magic, the settings, the beliefs of the peoples. It was miles ahead of D&D which largely consisted of 20th century personalities in a fantasy environment. And realism? In RQ if you were hit on the head with a sword, you went down like a sack of shit. In D&D you would have people being hit by a dozen arrows and still standing....
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Date: 2005-07-05 05:03 am (UTC)Ahh, I knew it was coming out at some stage... I just didn't know that it would be the first thing!
As for the RQ thing, like so many other fans, we're actually a bit scared. The Avalhon Hill experience was of questionable value, to the point there are still die-hard fans of RQ II (from twenty five years ago!).
RuneQuest had flavour. Heaps of it. I picked up a copy of Cults of Prax the other week from the UK and was reading this magnificant narrative of a trader who travels among the different religions, and in the first page there's a description of meeting talking baboons who summon their ancestors around a big campfire.
Everything about it had the flavour of the bronze age, the magic, the settings, the beliefs of the peoples. It was miles ahead of D&D which largely consisted of 20th century personalities in a fantasy environment. And realism? In RQ if you were hit on the head with a sword, you went down like a sack of shit. In D&D you would have people being hit by a dozen arrows and still standing....