[RQ-Rules] Non-Gloranthan Bestiaries

[Roger Benham]

I make all mine up! I agree that most monsters do have a flavour of the campaign they come from; Gloranthan monsters are not unuseable outside of Glorantha- I've used a couple of scorpion men and a Thanatari dark troll in a Call of Cthulhu scenario for instance, set in an English country village, kind of Miss Marple meets the Doom Lord.

I have moved away from monsters out of D &D; I find creating the critturs to be one of the more enjoyable sides to creating my worlds.







>From: Leon Kirshtein 


>Reply-To: rq-rules at crashbox.com 

>To: rq-rules at crashbox.com 

>Subject: Re: [RQ-Rules] Non-Gloranthan Bestiaries 

>Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:51:44 -0800 (PST) 

> 

>Well there are a good selection of creatures in the 

>Creatures Book which came with RQIII but a lot of the 

>time I just convert a creature from D&D3. 

> 

>Leon Kirshtein 

> 

>--- Gianni 
wrote: 

> > Hi 

> > 

> > I was wondering... Apparently a lot of you guys on 

> > the list play RQ in 

> > Non-Gloranthan settings. The problem is -- What kind 

> > of creatures do you 

> > use? 

> > 

> > I feel the creatures in RQII and most of the 

> > creatures in RQIII are 

> > intrinsically linked to Glorantha and don't make 

> > much of a sense used 

> > outside of that peculiar context. And rightly so, 

> > since I believe creatures 

> > must be closely linked to a given setting's 

> > atmosphere, unless you favour a 

> > D&Dish approach to role playing. So what kind of 

> > creatures do you use? Do 

> > you have to write up your own? 

> > 

> > I was disappointed by Land of Ninja, for instance, 

> > in which most of the 

> > creatures descriptions simply state 'this is the 

> > Nihonese version of the 

> > creature...' 

> > 

> > Also the Gateway Bestiary isn't particularly useful 

> > since most of the 

> > creatures in it are quite eccentric. 

> > 

> > Gianni 

> > webmaster of basicrps.com 

> > 

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