How close can DBRP get to RQIII?

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by NickMiddleton

Apart from their propensity to drop pages from the centre at the slightest provocation...

The GW hardbacks of the mid-eighties are notoriously variable in quality. If you got a good one, it will probably stil be going strong. But some of them disintegrated phenomenally quickly.


Nick Middleton

Yeah, I'll second that. A couple of us bought the GW version of Strombringer because it was hardcover (among other reasons), and every one of our copies literally fell apart once we open the book. You could actually hear it when you cracked the spine, and then a page would fall out. Each time you opening the book, out dropped another page or three. I7ve not seen another book that fast.

[RosenMcStern]

Originally Posted by soltakss

If you wanted to go that way, the RQM SRD contains Rune/Divine/Sorcery which is pretty much RQ3 with a few changes. Using an OGL Licence, you could easily change it back and retrofit it to an improved RQ3 Magic Book.

MRQ magic is based on the Combat Action mechanics, and on Resist (skill). Sorcery, which used to rely heavily on the Resistance Table in RQ3, is very different. Retrofitting could turn out to be more work than paraphrasing the old rules.

Apart from the fact that Sorcery is the part of MRQ that was really improved, so I would keep it "as is", if it was not for the incompatibilities.