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2/4/2004 Peter Nordstrand: I cannot stay quiet: One n in canon
Hi, It is impossible for me to shut up any longer. In order not to point my finger at anyone in particular, I made it a new topic. Folks, when…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins, Mac Logo, RaconteurX, pete_darby, soru, Scripty, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Blankshield, simon_hibbs, HMT, Jane.


2/4/2004 doubtofbuddha: Planescape HeroQuest
It has been discussed in the past, and I know that Ron Edwards ran a game using it, but there has yet to be a true, widely-available conversion of the…
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Participants: doubtofbuddha, Mike Holmes, soru, Mac Logo, Scripty, Nicolas Crost, buserian.


2/3/2004 pete_darby: Gloranthan Genre conventions / tropes
Okay, splitting off from this thread, I'm trying to compile a pretty basic list of the convetions of Glorantha as a genre, with the focus on being as helpful as…
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Participants: pete_darby, soru, Christopher Kubasik, Brand_Robins, RaconteurX, contracycle, simon_hibbs, Wulf, Mike Holmes, Deacon Blues, Nick Brooke, Donald, Mac Logo, newsalor, Scripty, Shreyas Sampat, Paul Watson, Nysalor, Peter Nordstrand, Valamir.


2/2/2004 J B Bell: Thed or Malia?
A recent GTA post says the following of Ron's article in Daedalus: . . . Finally, Ron Edwards' insightful article in the Daedelus online zine http://www.chimera.info/daedalus/ was of course…
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Participants: J B Bell, Thor Olavsrud, joshua neff.


2/1/2004 Caynreth: How to introduce new players to HeroQuest?
Hi as mentioned in another post I'm going to play my first HQ-game in near future. My fellow players never played HQ or any similar game. Since now they have…
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Participants: Caynreth, Bankuei, Scripty, RaconteurX, soru, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand.


1/29/2004 Mike Holmes: Aging and Such
I'm such a damn simmie. HQ allows you to do a lot of "what if" sorta sim stuff. In another thread I was mentioning the idea of using the resolution…
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Participants: Mike Holmes, Mr Darran Sims, RaconteurX, contracycle, buserian, soru.


1/29/2004 Mr Darran Sims: RHQN HeroQuest games @ Conception 2004.
The Ring of HeroQuest Narrators presents the following scenarios at Conception 2004. We are a team of HeroQuest Narrators dedicated to demoing the game to new players and helping Narrators…
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Participants: Mr Darran Sims.


1/28/2004 Caynreth: HQ for a Low-Fantasy Setting: Help needed
Hi I picked up HQ some weeks ago and I'm really excited about playing it. I don't have much experience however with such 'unusual' game-concepts (after years of GURPS, Earthdawn…
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Participants: Caynreth, Scripty, doubtofbuddha, Mike Holmes, Brand_Robins, buserian, Peter Nordstrand.


1/28/2004 ascendance: Forgotten Realms Conversion
I'm getting rather tired of running stock D20 in my Forgotten Realms game, so I'm seriously considering switching over to Hero Wars. Ironically, I've never actually played stock Hero Wars,…
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Participants: ascendance, Mike Holmes.


1/27/2004 Bankuei: HQ Prep for play
Hi guys, Over in another thread(http://indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9417), the different focus of play and preparation before play in HeroQuest was touched on and I mentioned that I felt HQ would have done…
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Participants: Bankuei, Smithy, joshua neff, RaconteurX, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, Christopher Kubasik, contracycle, Ron Edwards, Peter Nordstrand, Valamir, Nick Brooke.


1/23/2004 MrWrong: The Black Ziggurat
The Black Ziggurat, a new scenario from the Ring of HeroQuest Narrators, has been released. This scenario was written as a fairly straightforward introductory scenario for HeroQuest. Aimed at beginners…
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Participants: MrWrong.


1/22/2004 motherlessgoose: Need good intro to HQ
I am considering buying HQ. I have perused the rulebook in the store and was at first highly turned off by the price. I was also taken aback by how…
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Participants: motherlessgoose, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, Bankuei, Scripty, Ian Cooper.


1/22/2004 doubtofbuddha: Hesitance towards Glorantha as a Setting
AS you may know (See my City of 10,000 Magicians thread), I am working on starting a Glorantha HeroQuest game. Last night a player of mine brought up so concerns…
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Participants: doubtofbuddha, Alan, buserian, RaconteurX, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Ian Charvill, pete_darby, soru, Kao Nashi, Scripty, contracycle, Bankuei, Emmerson, Deacon Blues, Brand_Robins, simon_hibbs, Christopher Kubasik, joshua neff, Donald.


1/20/2004 pete_darby: Fishing for Bangs... (serenwyn campaign
Okay, it's another chapter in the Serenwyn game tonight... and, ladies and gentlemen, we are taking the training wheels off, and driving with bangs. I've mailed out the prologue to…
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Participants: pete_darby, Mike Holmes, buserian, Peter Nordstrand, Ian Cooper.


1/18/2004 Shreyas Sampat: Creating New Keywords II
Trailing off this thread... I'm having a really icky time figuring out, and coming up with new, animist traditions; several reads of the animism chapter have started to clear up…
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Participants: Shreyas Sampat, doubtofbuddha, buserian.


1/15/2004 doubtofbuddha: City of 10,000 Magicians: Heroquest Relationship Mapping
Well, I think I have enough information from my players to begin develloping a relationship map for my new HeroQuest campaign. So far I have six players, four of which…
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Participants: doubtofbuddha, Mike Holmes, Peter Nordstrand, Donald.


1/14/2004 bluegargantua: Providing Challenge in Adventures
Hi, So I'm assembling a quick one-shot for our local gaming group to test out the HQ system. We're just curious to take the system out for a spin and…
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Participants: bluegargantua, Mike Holmes, Ian Cooper, Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins, RaconteurX, Scripty.


1/13/2004 Balbinus: Historical HeroQuest actual play
Hi, I posted this originally on rpg.net in response to a query there but thought that it would be of interest to folk here as well. Rather than go into…
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Participants: Balbinus, Mike Holmes, simon_hibbs, Thierry Michel.


1/9/2004 Balbinus: Incompetent starting characters
One of the things I've found a little frustrating in HQ is how often it seems that truly innovative mechanics are married to remarkably traditional roleplaying assumptions. One such assumption…
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Participants: Balbinus, Ian Cooper, Der_Renegat, simon_hibbs, soru, Paul Watson, Mike Holmes, Donald.


1/8/2004 Dev: GM wanted to demo HQ at Con (Vericon, Boston, MA)
ALong with my friends, I run a convention - VeriCon - that takes place Jan 30 - Feb 1st, 2004, and is lots of affordably kickassed fun. There will be…
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Participants: Dev, RaconteurX, Deacon Blues, buserian.


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2/5/2004 MarkAdri: Rinliddi Campaign in Edasus (Opening Notes)
OK I've been wittering on about doing a campaign set in the Lunar Empire specifically in the town of Edasus in the Satrapy of First Blessed. Well I've managed to…
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Participants: MarkAdri, doubtofbuddha, joshua neff, RaconteurX.


2/6/2004 Peter Nordstrand: Relationship maps
There has been a lot of talk about relationship maps here on the HeroQuest forum lately. The purpose of this thread is to help narrators to make relationship maps that…
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Participants: Peter Nordstrand, Brand_Robins, RaconteurX.


2/6/2004 motherlessgoose: Narrativism in HQ
I recently got the HQ rulebook, along with intro to Glorantha and Gloranthan Visions. So far I think the setting is awesome. It is what I have been looking for…
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Participants: motherlessgoose, Peter Nordstrand, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Sean, Deacon Blues, simon_hibbs.


2/6/2004 doubtofbuddha: HeroQuest Campaigning in the Lunar Empire
The initial Relationship Map is done so now I am going to run a thread focused on the actual evolution of my new HeroQuest Campaign. Here is the thread for…
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Participants: doubtofbuddha, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, Valamir, buserian, Nick Brooke, RaconteurX, Ian Cooper.


2/8/2004 Scripty: Oh, when the (Wandering Orphan) Tanks come marching in...
Originally I had posted this on the following thread: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=9671 But I thought it was a significant enough threadjack to deserve its own thread. At first, I was just going…
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Participants: Scripty, doubtofbuddha, Brand_Robins, Bankuei, soru, simon_hibbs, pete_darby, Mike Holmes, buserian.


2/10/2004 Deacon Blues: Personality Traits: How Many?
Each cultural and occupational keyword lists typical Personality traits of typical members (Fears Dragons, Proud, Outgoing, etc). How many of those traits can a starting character take? Are they selected…
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Participants: Deacon Blues, Shreyas Sampat, Mike Holmes, joshua neff, Brand_Robins, Kao Nashi, Bankuei, Valamir, RaconteurX, Scripty, buserian.


2/13/2004 cauldron: Blueberry
Just saw that movie, it was fantastic. A must see for all Gloranthan fan. It's the adaptation of a french comics from Moebius. It's a western (which is not really…
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Participants: cauldron.


2/18/2004 Syam Lantri: The Secret Of Iron
hi folks, I want share with you an idea wich came to me a long time ago. P78 of th HQ book, we have the different metals in Glorantha, and…
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Participants: Syam Lantri, Mac Logo, Paul Watson, Wulf.


2/20/2004 Skadedyr: Let Me Tell You About My HeroQuest Character
So I just sat down with the gamemaster this evening and made a character for a campaign slated to start sunday 29th. The gamemaster has regretably made the purchase of…
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Participants: Skadedyr, Mike Holmes, Mac Logo, epweissengruber, buserian.


2/21/2004 Smithy: Prepping for A Succession Conflict in Pimia
So I'm prepping the first HQ game for myself and my group. We're committed to exploring narrativist gaming, but I'm still getting a feel for how to go about putting…
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Participants: Smithy, RaconteurX, Bankuei, Mike Holmes, buserian.


2/22/2004 MrWrong: Masters of Luck and Death competition
Patrons & Nemesses Competition To celebrate the release of the excellent Masters of Luck and Death, we are running a competition to with three copies as prizes. For entries we…
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Participants: MrWrong, Brand_Robins, buserian.


2/23/2004 Bankuei: The Blood Monsoon
Hi folks, I'm prepping for a Kralori game, and here's the background: The Blood Monsoon A Kralori Campaign Scenario for HeroQuest Even in a land of perfection, there are outlaws.…
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Participants: Bankuei, joshua neff, Peter Nordstrand, RaconteurX, Brand_Robins, Valamir, Josh Barnett, Ron Edwards.


2/25/2004 joshua neff: Moon Revolutions: The Celestial Game
This coming Saturday will see the first session of my groups new HeroQuest run. (I abandoned the previous run out of my frustrations with my own GMing. I decided that…
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Participants: joshua neff, doubtofbuddha, Mike Holmes, RaconteurX, Nick Brooke, buserian, Peter Nordstrand.


3/1/2004 Smithy: Succession Conflict in Pimia First Session
So the game discussed in Prepping for a Succession Conflict in Pimia is finally underway. Here's a summary of the first session. ************************************************************ The game began at the funeral rites…
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Participants: Smithy, Mike Holmes.


3/4/2004 Bluve Oak: A few questions
Hi there. Just asking about for an intelligent magic system http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=10098 and was advised to check out Heroquest. Before I part with my hard earned cash I was just wondering…
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Participants: Bluve Oak, Harrek, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes, buserian, joshua neff, Mac Logo, Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro.


3/6/2004 Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro: HQ Floats my boat
I have just read a few reviews on HQ and various posts at the Forge and it blows my mind that virtually all my game design concepts for Lila (a…
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Participants: Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, RaconteurX, buserian, Mike Holmes.


3/7/2004 Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro: Hero's Book?
Hi all. My local shop doesn't have HQ but they do have the Hero's Book. I have done a bit of net surfing and can only conclude that the Hero's…
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Participants: Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, buserian, hix.


3/9/2004 buserian: d20 vs. 3d6 in HeroQuest?
In the recent Suggest a game system for me PLEASE! topic on the RPG Theory forum, Nuadha said the following: The problem with using Heroquest, is that it only uses…
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Participants: buserian, Mike Holmes, Mac Logo, RaconteurX, Nicolas Crost, simon_hibbs, Valamir, Paul Watson, Brand_Robins, newsalor, Alai, Peter Nordstrand, Lxndr, lightcastle.


3/14/2004 Janus: HQ system and insanity mechanics
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has worked out some game mechanics for stress/sanity/etc. with the HeroQuest system. It would be to run in a contemporary (Call of Cthulhu) or…
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Participants: Janus, Bankuei, Scripty, newsalor, Mike Holmes.


3/18/2004 Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro: Bought HB.. Yipee.. Err how the?
Hi everybody. Bought the Hero's Book the other day. YIPPEE !!! I really dig it and can't wait for HeroQuest (have it on order). I have a question if anyone…
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Participants: Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro, Mark Galeotti, buserian, Scripty, Harrek, Brand_Robins, Mike Holmes.


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