Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Runequest & other Chaosium games Message-ID: <636@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 13:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxp.636 Posted: Thu Feb 16 13:47:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 03:28:10 EST References: <4907@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <171@tymix.UUCP> <825@qubix.UUCP> <1201@pur-phy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 33 Since Runequest has come up, I suppose that I will comment. My personal feelings are that I do NOT like this game at all. As a frp player that was weaned on D&D (that is not AD&D) about five years ago, spent a significant amount of his life in the dorms at college playing wargames and role-playing, I find Runequest boring in comparision to other role-playing. Let me explain. In my opinion, RQ is fantasy. It is not Heroic Fantacy. It is the day-to-day living for a while and then dying of an average character. The magic system, until you get Rune level magic is just sooooo dull. Gods have to help the thief, for a starting one might have some of his rolls up to a 50-50 chance of succeeding. But for a thief, who is trying to disarm a trap, and who will have it spring on him with the poison needle, etc., these are lousy chances of survival. A true thief is unplayable. A mage is unplayable of any sort because it is not worth it in terms of the magic attainable. The magic items themselves are so rare and so normal that they fit in with the rest of this boring game. I'll give the rebuttal now before I get hit with the editorial. The pro-RQ will say: "But that's the beauty of the game in being an undeclard multi-class". To that I say horse-pucky. Every character in the game is a fighter, with a few embellishments. (Why do they call it battle magic...because all it is is an aid to a fighter.) For me, give me the spell-caster or the thief...you can keep the fighter. Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch