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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have tinkering with this idea. Sometime I would like to try it but would use the e6 rules (D&D only up to 6<sup>th</sup> level).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/E6_(3.5e_Sourcebook)">http://dungeons.wikia.com/wiki/E6_(3.5e_Sourcebook)</a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do not think high level suits Glorantha. Yes Harrek & Jareel are 12th+ level, but you don’t want a plethora of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Runequest [mailto:runequest-bounces@rpgreview.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alban de ROSTOLAN<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 5 November 2013 7:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> RuneQuest Rules<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Runequest] Pete's RQ updates & D&D conversion notes<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello all,<br><br>If I wanted to run a "Glorantha d20" game, I think I'd reduce the number of base classes to 5:<br><br>-Fighter<br>-Expert (from Unearthed Arcana)<br>-Initiate<br>-Apprentice Sorcerer<br>-Apprentice Shaman<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Then, I would treat Shaman, Sorcerers, Priests and Runelords as Prestige classes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Le Lundi 4 novembre 2013 22h41, Peter Maranci <<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=yiv8781967438><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>My conversion notes are much less ambitious; I'm just trying to help D&D gamemasters make use of the RQ/BRP/D100-related material on my site. I don't think that Feats come into that, thank goodness! They're so cludgy.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>->Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=yiv8781967438yqtfd40542><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>On Nov 4, 2013 3:44 PM, "Styopa" <<a href="mailto:styopa1@gmail.com" target="_blank">styopa1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>For those not sure what he's talking about, the D&D3.0 SRD is here (<a href="http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html" target="_blank">http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html</a>) and the feats list is here (<a href="http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd/srdfeats.rtf" target="_blank">http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd/srdfeats.rtf</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Honestly, I'd say feats are either VERY simple to convert, rationalizing them to % from d20 as an innate character natural benefit (Alertness feat normally gives +2 on listen/spot checks; in RQ I'd say it's 'Keen Senses' +10% to the same; Brew Potion feat just gives the RQ character some basic skill at Knowledge (Alchemy)), systemically impossible (Heavy Armor feat, for example, exists in D&D *solely* to prevent mages from wearing armor - clearly, that's not what RQ's about...), or silly (Empower, Maximize Damage, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>There are some boundary-cases like Cleave; one could argue it's a 'special mighty blow' technique I guess - that I frankly find silly to my simulationist ethos, and would just disregard to the great wails and gnashing of player-teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>I can't say that I've migrated all that many characters from D&D to RQ - this has only ever really been a thought-exercise. By the time they're leveled-up enough to make the transfer challenging, they're so intrinsically wedded into the D&D level-based system that transfer to RQ is practically crippling.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>OTOH, I *do* cheerfully use D&D modules in my game, as my players enjoy classic dungeon crawls. I contextualize to RQ setting thematically, of course, and then technically (in treasure, for example, gp = silver pennies, potions are largely left unchanged, other magic items are converted to MP crystals or comparable items (a +1 sword becomes +1 damage, +5% to hit/parry, etc)) and winging it madly as far as encounters, either scaling them approximately to RQ (ie a room of 16 orcs might end up being a half-dozen broo as numbers are SO much more weighty in RQ) or just leaving them as-is (a tomb with 10 skeleton guards in RQ is scary, compared to a D&D walk-in-the-park challenge).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Shrine of Tamoachan, Rahasia, Tomb of Horrors, yes, even the Barrier Peaks were great fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Ravenloft - as an RQ adventure - will be amazing when they stumble onto it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Leon Kirshtein <<a href="mailto:leonbk@yahoo.com" target="_blank">leonbk@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>With D&D3.0 and Pathfinder rules, conversion to RQ is both easier and harder. Easier in terms that the systems are a lot more skill oriented, and thus easier to convert, but at the same time Feats and certain class features may prove to be a lot harder to handle.<br><br>Has anyone looked into that?<br><br>Leon<br><br>--------------------------------------------<br>On Thu, 10/31/13, Peter Maranci <<a href="mailto:pmaranci@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmaranci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br> Subject: [Runequest] Pete's RQ updates & D&D conversion notes<br> To: "RuneQuest Rules" <<a href="mailto:runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">runequest@rpgreview.net</a>><br> Date: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 1:33 PM<br><br> I've posted a lot of<br> updates to the site over the past few months, including new<br> up-to-date HTML versions of the Found Items, Magic Items,<br> and Chaotic Features sections - 1,469 entries in all.<br> <a href="http://runequest.org/chaosproj.htm" target="_blank">http://runequest.org/chaosproj.htm</a><br> I'm considering posting epub versions as<br> well, for mobile devices and offline use.<br> Although most of the entries are pretty<br> generic, I wrote up a quick RQ to D&D guide - not to<br> convert campaigns, just to help D&D GMs make easier use<br> of the more RuneQuest-specific items. I haven't played<br> D&D in a very long time, though, so if anyone happens to<br> notice anything that's wrong or could use clarification,<br> please let me know.<br><br> <a href="http://runequest.org/rqtodd.htm" target="_blank">http://runequest.org/rqtodd.htm</a><br> ->Peter<br><br> -----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br> _______________________________________________<br> Runequest mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">Runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br> <a href="http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Runequest mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">Runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br><a href="http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Runequest mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Runequest@rpgreview.net" target="_blank">Runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br><a href="http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yqtfd53059><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>Runequest mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Runequest@rpgreview.net">Runequest@rpgreview.net</a><br><a href="http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net" target="_blank">http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>