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The sad thing however for many old RQ fans is that:
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1) No new supplements for BRP will work with RQ3 without a fair amount of work for the GM (assuming SR and Hit Locations will probably not be used for stats in most supplements as they are optional)
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Well, I think that you could run a scenario fairly easily with RQ3. The only real problem would be no Hit Locations DEX Ranks not Strike Ranks, Variable Armour and possibly the Magic System. Hopefully Chaosium will release the RQ3 Magic System as a BRP supplement, or perhaps a variant of the RQ3 Magic System.
But, if you are used to running things on the fly, as I am, it's not really a problem. It's only a big problem if you convert every NPC to RQ3 before playing and I don#t bother doing that.
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2) No new Glorantha supplements will work with RQ3 without even more work for the GM.
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Well, Third Age Glorantha is HeroQuest, Second Age Glorantha is RQM and both wil need some work. BRP probably won't have Gloranthan supplements so it has no effect.
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Three years ago if you told me all the tidbits about the release of BRP, The release of MRQ, and all the Release of Second Age Glorantha for RQ, I would envisioned a utopia of RQ goodness. The reality of this brave new (RQ) world has not lived up to the promise. We have RQ, BRP, and Glorantha, but somehow we have three pieces that don't all fit together or work together nicely.
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Well, yes. But I have high hopes of Third Party Publishers producing supplements that are semi-compatible with BRP/RQM/RQ3 and can be used in many different settings.
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Not that any of this is your fault, or Chaosiums. But I share in the pain of RQ grognards like Triff and company.
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We can't really blame Chaosium for producing BRP that is different to RQM or Mongoose for producing RQM that is different to RQ3 or indeed anyone.
GORE has shown that something using the RQM SRD can be made to be similar to older versions of RQ and that's the way forward in my opinion.