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8/15/2006 epweissengruber: Space Opera Take on Well of Souls
I will be running a Space Opera take on The Well of Souls shortly. I have posted my notes and my character sheets here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/HeroQuest-RPG/files/Space%20Opera%20and%20Well%20of%20Souls/ The labels allow players to…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Der_Renegat.

8/13/2006 epweissengruber: HQ and the Mountain Witch setup.
I love the mechanics of this ronin-meets-Resevoir Dogs game: http://www.timfire.com/MountainWitch/MW_resources.html It's a great way to capture the play between trust and betrayal in samurai movies, westerns, and dark action stories.…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes.

8/7/2006 fredrikr: "What if I need to lift a rock?"
At the beginning of my second ShadowQuest session on of the players commented on the lack of common stats in the system, remarking that it might be difficult to deal …
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Participants: fredrikr, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, Web_Weaver, droog, Raedwald Bretwalda, Ian Cooper.

8/7/2006 fredrikr: [Shadow World] Tales of the Storm Falcon - Part 2
Hello everyone, sorry about the extended silence. It's been about two weeks now since I held the second session of my ShadowQuest game, I just haven't gotten around to writing…
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Participants: fredrikr, sebastianz, alexandre santos.

8/3/2006 epweissengruber: Collaborative Setting and NPC Creation for A Heroquest Conspiracy Game
Hi, I tried to set up a campaign based in the Lunar Empire but it fizzled.  I came up with some very elaborate setting-creation plans under the inspiration of Vincent…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes.

8/1/2006 Mandrake: PBeM
How does one get started in PBeM? I quite fancy running one, but I'd like to play one for a bit to get more of a feel for it. My…
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Participants: Mandrake, Mike Holmes, bigpumpkin, Mandacaru, a_verheaghe, Jane.

7/26/2006 bigpumpkin: Apprentice game plans
I'm in the process of starting up a Heroquest game with a deliberately restrictive premise for player characters and I'd be grateful for some input and feedback on the approach…
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Participants: bigpumpkin, Mike Holmes, Mandrake, Vaxalon, Bryan_T, nellist, sebastianz.

7/25/2006 Mandrake: Gamism in Balazar
I've got the impression that the general character of this board leans towards the narrative agenda As stated elsewhere, I run a (previously) combat centric gamist campaign set in Balazar…
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Participants: Mandrake, Harshax, Mike Holmes.

7/24/2006 Harshax: Healing as extended contest ~ how?
HQ suggests that one may treat healing wounds as an extended contest, by using the inverse (I assume) of the injury as the starting AP total, and a TN as…
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Participants: Harshax, soviet, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, Doyce.

7/24/2006 Mandrake: Bring back edges
OK. This is really beginning to bug me now. If you take 2 warriors, identically skilled, but give one a sword and leather, the other say halberd and plate, the…
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Participants: Mandrake, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, nichughes, Jane, Web_Weaver, soviet.

7/24/2006 Web_Weaver: Removing attributes from HQ
I am moving this more general idea from out of the Species keywords--a kludge? thread, to avoid hijacking the keyword debate. I have discussed there, that it may be an…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, Vaxalon, sebastianz, Mandrake, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

7/18/2006 Der_Renegat: Shadow World and HQ
I know there are a few people here, who are interested in running Shadow World with HQ, so i thought it would be a nice idea to start a thread…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, fredrikr.

7/14/2006 Mike Holmes: HP Transference
We're changing phases in the IRC game, and this is where I prefer to get in rule changes as they tend to stick best if implemented during the transition. So,…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Vaxalon, Latreya Sena, sebastianz, Doyce, Mandrake, Tim Ellis, Jane.

7/13/2006 Harshax: New to HeroQuest ~ need advice
I was very down on HeroWars when it was released.  It was, in my opinion, a convoluted implementation of an otherwise simple concept.  HeroQuest changed my opinion dramatically.  There are…
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Participants: Harshax, soviet, Mike Holmes, Latreya Sena, Melinglor, Bankuei, sebastianz.

6/20/2006 Vaxalon: A mechanic swiped from Nine Worlds: Goals
Some people already put traits on their character sheet that are goals.  "I want to kill my brother, Gold."  "I want to become a shaman."  "I want to rule the…
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Participants: Vaxalon, Latreya Sena, Mike Holmes, nichughes, Web_Weaver, Tim Ellis.

6/17/2006 Tony Irwin: Indie net-gaming IRC Heroquest
I had the chance to sit in on Mike Holmes' IRC Heroquest Thursday night game last week and enjoyed it. Thanks to Mike and to all the players for the…
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Participants: Tony Irwin, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes.

6/17/2006 Latreya Sena: There were three in the bed and the little one said...
...Roll over, roll under... Do you like the idea of rolling over the resistence/opponent rather than rolling under your ability score as per rules?
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Participants: Latreya Sena, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, Ron Edwards, Melinglor.

6/16/2006 droog: Species keywords--a kludge?
I've been wondering about the species keywords and their ungainly list of separate ability scores. Would there be any obstacle to having them act like all other keywords, ie at…
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Participants: droog, Vaxalon, soviet, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes, Web_Weaver, Jane.

6/11/2006 fredrikr: [Shadow World] New high-flown adventures
As discussed in another thread (http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=19985.0), I've been preparing a micro-campaign to introduce one of my two regular Shadow World players to HeroQuest. However, the game had to be postponed,…
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Participants: fredrikr, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, Web_Weaver.

6/10/2006 Melinglor: Chasing Heroquest
I had a couple of delightful moments in my (non-HQ) roleplaying recently, that made me feel good about running Heroquest in the near future. Last week, I was playing with…
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Participants: Melinglor, Mark Galeotti, Vaxalon, rstites, Mike Holmes, Tim Ellis.

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8/17/2006 AzureaSkyes: A quick question about equipment "abilities" and flaws
Hello everyone, I have a question about equipment abilities and flaws. I'll ask the flaws part first. If you have a "keyword" flaw rated, for example, at 17. What does…
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Participants: AzureaSkyes, droog, kurukku, sebastianz, Mike Holmes, soviet, Mandacaru.

8/22/2006 rstites: Settlement of Dragon Pass Game
I'm starting a HQ game this Friday that will center around the (re)settlement of Dragon Pass in Glorantha.  I think it'll be a good place to start for a group…
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Participants: rstites, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, Mandacaru.

8/22/2006 rstites: Personality Traits and Relationships
One question I got from a player was what do the various levels for personality traits and relationships mean.  There's tables showing what an ability is roughtly.  Anyone have one…
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Participants: rstites, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, Lamorak33, Mandacaru, soru, Vaxalon.

8/22/2006 Der_Renegat: In this thread i´d like to talk about soviets HQStarWars
I dug the pdf out last week and had another closer look at it - really awesome just because of the sheer amount of work that must have been involved…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, sebastianz, soviet, Mike Holmes, barna284, Melinglor.

8/24/2006 Der_Renegat: Rating versus Scale
Coming from this thread http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=21031.0, there are some interesting points concerning ratings and scale. On the one hand we have a scale (masteries), which in the rulesbook is explained via…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes, Lamorak33.

8/24/2006 Mike Holmes: Otherworlds And Applicability to Fantasy Worlds
[size=14pt][b]What Source Material Does HQ Magic Match? [/b] [/size] I often argue that the way magic is described for Glorantha actually, despite what some may say about it being "Glorantha…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Melinglor, sebastianz, soru, epweissengruber.

8/25/2006 aaronil: Example of HQ Play for A Newbie?
I'm just getting exposed to HQ, having recently purchased the book and looking forward to gaming with some eager friends come winter. Now, it seems to me that HQ requires…
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Participants: aaronil, Lamorak33, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, Ian Cooper.

8/28/2006 rylen dreskin: Kolat vs Telmor
I'm writing up a story/quick ceremony for a game I'm part of.  I'd appreciate any feedback, and especially help with one of the names. The current situation, Telmori are raiding…
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Participants: rylen dreskin, sebastianz, Mike Holmes.

8/30/2006 herrmess: A few questions from a pair of HQ newbies
Hi all, I had HQ for a year or so, and although Glorantha doesn't appeal to me much (I'm the guy with the EarthDawn conversion in a coma) I do…
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Participants: herrmess, aaronil, sebastianz, Mike Holmes, soviet, Web_Weaver, Vaxalon, soru, Melinglor, Lamorak33.

9/3/2006 TheLHF: Large scale games.
Angry Argrath over on RPG.net mentioned that you could use HeroQuest to run anything you can write up a 100 word description for. Gods, kingdoms, cities or sailing ships all…
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Participants: TheLHF, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, droog, Lamorak33, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes.

9/5/2006 charles ferguson: Archaic Glorantha
Hey all I'm playing my first HQ game in a couple weeks. I'ts a 'short story arc' thing, we're trying a few games & HQ is next up (I'm GMing).…
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Participants: charles ferguson, Lamorak33, James Holloway, Jane, rstites, soru, Mike Holmes, Mandacaru.

9/8/2006 Thalaxis: Mythic Russia
Arrived last night! From a first look-over, it's clean-looking and well-written. I'm definitely going to plan on running at TerpCon this year if I can make it. So far, I…
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Participants: Thalaxis, Mike Holmes, GB Steve, Mark Galeotti, rafial, angelopampalone, Nick Brooke.

9/12/2006 Web_Weaver: Extended Contests - Mining HQs Narrativist core
There have been many discussions here that have focused on utilising HeroQuest for a narrativist agenda, and many have expoused the view that the best way to facilitate this is…
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Participants: Web_Weaver, Vaxalon, sebastianz, Lamorak33, Melinglor, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper, Valamir, soru.

9/16/2006 Ian Cooper: What was Questworld in the RuneQuest days?
I split this from Archaic Glorantha, but I'm guessing Mike might be interested in this because of his Otherworld material. Questworld was a reaction by Chaosium to the fact that…
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Participants: Ian Cooper, Web_Weaver, Mike Holmes.

9/17/2006 epweissengruber: Template for Generic Heroquest Character Backgrounds
I am hoping to run a Heroquest setting with heavy player input.  That means generation of homelands, professions, common magic, etc. I am hoping to have fairly experienced characters too,…
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Participants: epweissengruber, Mike Holmes, sebastianz, soru, Vaxalon.

9/27/2006 Der_Renegat: intellectual and emotional "combat"
Interesting thread on rpg.net about intellectual and emotional "combat": http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=288090 A lot of inspirational ideas for HQ ! I like this part a lot: Clothing worn by the attacker…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

9/27/2006 Doyce: Stealing from DitV to 'slice' conflicts into smaller segments
Okay, I'm just brainstorming here, and I more than welcome input and thoughts. I got Dogs a couple years back -- one of the first couple conflict-resolution-level games that I…
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Participants: Doyce, sebastianz, Mike Holmes.

9/29/2006 Der_Renegat: Bladerunner
I was doing some research for ideas how to write scenes which are dramatic but happen without combat. This resulted in a write up for Bladerunner. If somebody is interested,…
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Participants: Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Mike Holmes, sebastianz.

10/6/2006 Ron Edwards: [Forum News] Announcement
Hi guys, Due to changes in Issaries publishing policy, which have been in place for a little while now, this forum can't be held at the Forge any more. I'm…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, boredoom, WildElf, Der_Renegat, Vaxalon, Ben Lehman, alexandre santos, lev_lafayette, Mike Holmes, MrWrong, tzunder, sebastianz, Web_Weaver, Ian Cooper, Ward, Blake Hutchins, rylen dreskin.

10/8/2006 Melinglor: And somewhere, Mike Holmes' ears burned. . .
So I sat down to explain/describe roleplaying the other day with my girlfriend. I laid out the basics of four systems, D&D3E, Big Eyes Small Mouth, Heroquest, and PTA, to…
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Participants: Melinglor, Der_Renegat, Mike Holmes.

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