I have been using HW to run a fantastical & high-powered Glorantha game. I have been ruminating about how to treat failures. I tried to start a discussion about Simple Contests for HW/HQ but ended up doing a lot of reflection on a play episode and set out some best practices for myself. Hopefully others will find these useful for their own play.
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Posted by: Erik Weissengruber
09 Aug 2021
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A few weeks ago, the Carbon 2185 crew decided they had enough of the Cyber & The Punk for a bit. We will be switching to Forbidden Lands soon, but in the meantime the players wanted to give WFRP 4th edition a look. To save time I grabbed the pre-generated characters and let them choose.
Posted by: Sean_RDP
16 Mar 2021
Games: Warhammer, Sorcerer, HeroQuest, Carbon 2185
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aka the Games of Summer (a riff on Boys of Summer, you get the idea)
Posted by: Sean_RDP
21 Aug 2020
Games: HeroQuest, Runequest Glorantha, Coriolis, Aquellare.
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In the FB group I took a week off from running the D&D games and wanted to run non-D&D. The Coriolis game never went off but The Witcher game was full. Ended up two players missed for Internet reasons, but four players is plenty of action. I used the pre-gens from the free Witcher: Easy Mode and built my own scenario from that. I wanted to test out some more Now! style play and see what emerged.
Posted by: Sean_RDP
06 Jun 2020
Games: The Witcher RPG, Coriolis, D&D, RuneQuest, HeroQuest
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I have been thinking a bit about situations and Situations of later as well as trying to determine the Stress point for players and perhaps for the game runners too. I had the opportunity to sit down with my 6yo and play through some make-believe of her devising and it brought to light some perspective on these questions. I would not say answered them, but definitely gave perspective.
Posted by: Sean_RDP
25 May 2020
Games: HeroQuest, Dungeons & Dragons
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As part of my recent swim-about in the internets of Glorantha and its associated games, my friend Nick Brooke and I had the chance to mix it up a little! It's regarding the long-standing interpretations of human ethnicities in Glorantha, including those which made it into published form
Posted by: Ron Edwards
22 Mar 2020
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I've finally realized how regularly people ask me to explain RuneQuest, HeroQuest, the Chaosium, and Glorantha, specifically because they've bounced hard off the apparently extensive setting and apprently impenetrably insider-oriented fanbase. It's usually private, and they often present the question as if it's their last fatigued try at finding out what "there" is there.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
17 Feb 2020
Games: RuneQuest, HeroQuest, 13th Age: Glorantha, Mythras
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This was a remarkable opportunity and experience. Adding my old-book RuneQuest game session to the Gothcon schedule caught some attention, as the Swedish version of the new edition has been organized, and its publisher and authors asked if we could add a panel for some conversation.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
22 May 2019
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I cannot as yet summarize or eulogize or otherwise "state" my response to Greg's death. It wasn't that much of a surprise, yet was as hard as they all have been. He was a grandmaster of this activity we do, and he was my friend.
This five-video discussion is more of a celebration of encountering his work, with a little bit of reminiscence occasionally. I don't have much to add except for these:
Posted by: Ron Edwards
26 Nov 2018
Games: Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, Hero Wars, HeroQuest, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Fading Suns, Ghostbusters, Legend of the five rings, Circle of Hands, Prince Valiant
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How about that other superhero game I'm working on? And no, not Vigil, but the other other one, which I'm calling Cosmic Zap.
Quick review: this is work for The Chaosium, using HeroQuest as the chassis, specifically the HeroQuest SRD, itself a bit of a work in progress.
Posted by: Ron Edwards
04 Jul 2018
Games: Cosmic Zap, HeroQuest
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