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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bilharzia" data-source="post: 7913432" data-attributes="member: 6970322">There's a lot of detail about Mythic Babylon, discussed by the authors here: (begins 4 minutes in)[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.buzzsprout.com/266482/1479823-1-4-by-the-mythras-of-babylon[/URL]One of the things they have done is write new magic systems appropriate for the setting which aren't the same as the core rules, revolving around the Babylonian concept of 'personal purity'.I think [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER] and others are a bit out of date when it comes to RuneQuest. RQ6 came out in 2012 (now renamed to "Mythras") and resolved the "it's too dangerous" complaint with Luck Points which do change the relationship between PCs and NPCs, so it's possible to have more 'heroic' PCs who take more risks. RQ2&3 and now RQG do the same thing with magic (even battle magic can re-attach limbs) which is ok if you want a high magic game. RQ6/Mythras you can run a low magic or no magic game without breaking the system or making players miserable.The complaint that RQ doesn't work for the Bronze Age because it doesn't promote heroic behaviour, seems a little odd, there are many things that you would need for the setting before you get to that, a big one I would say is going to depend on the PCs relationship with the beliefs and cultural mores of the time (see above). The idea that D&D4e is an ideal system to represent this does not seem credible.Mythic Britain (and Mythic Logres) did a great job at evoking an Iron Age 'Dark-Ages' Britain, using a Bernard Cornwell - like premise while amping up the spiritworld of Annwn. I'm looking forward to Mythic Babylon but Lyonesse is due for publication first which is looking pretty spectacular itself.</blockquote>

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