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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrumpyOldMan" data-source="post: 2833914" data-attributes="member: 16469">It was a Chaosium game (RQ1 & 2) before it was an Avalon Hill game (RQ3). (On a side note, you play DnD and you think RQ monsters are strange? Amazing.)-- 7 Ability scores (you forgot Siz)-- HP are average of Str + Siz. So average is likely to be 11-16-- Now apparently a few less skills, all of which can increase above 100% to create ‘heroic’ characters.-- Gloratha fans prefer to use the terms ‘Battle Magic, Sorcery and Rune Magic, but I suspect that the generic terms will remain. Shamanism casting % is 5 x Pow. Wizardry is an improvable skill. Divine Magic always works (gods don’t fail)-- Apparently now some skills are ‘advanced’ skills, not open to everyone.-- You need to roll d% and get higher than your existing skill to increase it after a game session, the increase is 1d6%. Apparently now any roll over 90% will allow an increase (in RQ3 there was a dice add and any roll over 100% would increase a skill.I’d point out that RuneQuest predates BRP and CoC. I prefer to think of CoC as a stripped down version of RQ with hit locations removed. IIRC Chaosium produced Worlds of Wonder before BRP, this was a simple Fantasy/SF/Superhero system which looked a lot like BRP.RuneQuest is my second favourite system. There’s still nothing wrong with third edition IMO.</blockquote>