Fatigue...

[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

Maybe more like 50-50. While the Trolls were the only major species on the "plus" side of the curve, there were a lot of weird ones like Baboons that could be played as characters. I never recall anyone wanting to play a baboon, but the stats were there. Morokanth, Broo, Scorpion Men. There, but for some reason just not popular with the players.

Note my comment: intelligent baboons were Gloranthan, and weren't even listed in the Glorantha book. So in practice, if you weren't playing in Glorantha (and perhaps even if you were, given the usual constraints on options because of exclusion of chaos entities) a PC was more likely to have no damage bonus than a big one. Dark trolls and centaurs tended to be the only viable core RQ3 races with a bonus, and even centaurs were problematic as PCs in many ways (because of the difficulty they had with so many environments).

[Rurik]

I played a Baboon and had great fun with him. I've always liked Gloranthan Baboons and never understood the hate for them.

It really must come from Gringle's Pawnshop, they are probably one of the first enemies faced by like 90+% of RQ players. But does everybody hate Centaurs too? I think not.

Negative stereotyping is what I call it.

[Kloster]

Originally Posted by Nightshade

...Dark trolls and centaurs tended to be the only viable core RQ3 races with a bonus, and even centaurs were problematic as PCs in many ways (because of the difficulty they had with so many environments).

This makes me remember of a ladder. We had to pull the centaur with ropes.

Runequestement votre,

Kloster