Get busy at work for a couple of days and this thread takes off...and seems to really drag on the last page or two, but I'll go back and address a couple of these responses.
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Originally Posted by NickMiddleton
Sorry, but that's utter nonsense - I've been running and playing RQIII for twenty years and, until a couple of years ago, none of those games had been set in Glorantha (and precious few of the RQII games I played or ran prior to that were Gloranthan either). The rules as described in the RQIII deluxe Boxed set or soft back book (or now in the BRP monographs) assume the default setting of mythic earth and I mostly used them for homebrew settings - but I've played and run a fair bit of Sorcery "by the book"...
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Sorry, but it's not nonsense. Glorantha is the only world with any level of detail that has ever been developed with the RQ rules. Fantasy Earth consisted of a single map, and nothing else. Even the Vikings supplement, which one would think would be an expansion for Fantasy Earth, completely remakes the magic system so isn't an implementation of the "rules as written". Whether you actually played in the world, with the maps provided, lists of states provided, etc. is completely beside the point, and I apologize if that wasn't clear to you in my post and that's what you reacted to. I've played tons of RQ outside the "Glorantha" too, but the magic system (as well as the rest of the rules) still work the same, unless someone explicitly changes something. Once someone uses "I'm not talking about Glorantha" as an argument then the natural assumption is that they're taking the rules away from their base and to something else and it's essential to know that if we're going to have any kind of coherent discussion. Hopefully, that's clearer now.
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Originally Posted by Enpeze
And of course you are right that Glorantha is the default setting for RQ2. For RQ3 its not so clear because there are 2. And for RQ4 (aka MRQ  ) there are several settings. In fact I guess that the most RQ fans use it for their homebrewn settings, because Glorantha in all its glory is not everyones cup of tea. |
See above. Yeah, with MRQ I'd agree since there are several developed settings now ,and most importantly, they actually change the core rules around for each setting so there's a real difference between the various settings.