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Originally Posted by soltakss

People seem to be very supportive of their favourite system and dismissive of the other, similar systems. Quite often, this is not just system based but seems to have a large amount of hostility to certain companies or people.

I don't like Mongoose Publishing because of the quality and cost of their products, so that's very system based. Now with BRP coming out, I don't mind that much. I can convert their scenarios to BRP, and MRQ might work as a stepping board from D&D to BRP. Issaire's I don't like because of the Issaire's fan policy which caused so many fansites to go offline. Considering how the fanbase was what kept Glorantha alive for such a long time, that's without doubt the worst Gregging ever. I don't mind the system, I just don't understand it. Way to alien. I've bought scenarios to convert to BRP, but haven't been able to do it. The systems where too different for me. I do love all the conversion on you site though!

What I would like to see is people supporting all these games. I'd like to see websites with conversion rules and examples of how to use Legendary Abilities in D100, HeroQuest Cults converted to RQ, the excellent modularity of RQ applied to BRP etc.

I would also love to conversion rules from any system actually, to BRP. But as there are few people who like to play all the games, there probably won't be that many webpages dedicated to all the systems (I only know of yours!).

I'd like to see fanzines for BRP also accepting dual-stats for RQ, or even stats for D100, RQ and HQ. I'd like to see fanzines for RQ accepting D100/HQ stats. I'd like to see variants of RQ/D100/HQ rules written in such a way as to be compatible with the other rulesets.

Tradetalk supports both Issaire's, Chaosium and MRQ (my MRQ Jelmre article will appear in issue #16). The BRP fanzine to be released on this site will accept dual stats (as long as BRP is one of them) - but Glorantha stuff might unfortunately be a problem because of the cursed fan policy.

What I am afraid might happen is that the BRP/RQ gaming fraternity splits up into warring factions. That D100 becomes violently incompatible with RQ and vice versa. That people are forced not to write things in one system because someone leans on them or threatens them with some legal action.

Well, there's the fan policy for you. I'm not sure what other restriction you would have.

At the moment, I can't submit anything even remotely connected with RQ to a proposed D100 fanzine.

Why is that?

Chaosium probably wouldn't have bothered bringing out D100 if the RQ community hadn't been as strong.

That is true. But I think the RQ community you refer to is the old one, which is now the BRP community. I do not think MRQ have the same loyal fanbase as BRP does.

Part of the problem is the Licences the new games come out under. Issaries has the Fan Policy that has driven many websites off the web and has stopped many publishers from publishing. Mongoose has the Open Gaming Licence, which seems reasonable, but makes Glorantha off-limits. I don't know what Chaosium has for D100, but unless they make it fairly open, then they are going to struggle.

I do applaud Mongoose for the OGL move. Glorantha is off-limits in the OGL only due to Issaire's. Chaosium will not go for an OGL, but will license to rules to 3rd party publishers. Much more restrictive than the OGL, but their fan policy will be very benign from what I understand. Just mentioning the trademarks and providing a link back to Chaosium's web-site would be enough according to Dustin (as long as we're talking about non-commercial stuff).

Sverre.