RQ Encounter generator – RQ6 stats for enemies

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Bring Out Your Dead

In the honor of All Hallow’s Eve (long gone now) here are a few new and tuned Undead mostly for Glorantha. Here are some new or more strongly tuned enemies.

Zombie Sorceror
Zombie Broo
Zombie Bison Broo
Mummy Sorcerous
Zombie Sailor
The usual suspects are there – Skeletons, Mummies, Vampires, Zombies, Ghouls but there are also parties for Vivamort and Gark the Calm and a Hag or two but also some rare ones like the Skeleton of Than or even Firebrand the Flaming Skeleton. There are now Skeletons for Dream Dragons and Minotaurs but quite a few others. Careful with the Zombies as they mostly are of the variety that reproduces well.

On the party side there is also a Ghost ship, Ship of the Dead and Mummy and Zombie parties…

All of the undead can now be found with the keyword Undead on the Enemies or Parties filter.

In addition to the Undead there is also a Lamia looking for more company.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/bring-out-your-dead/

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Your True Friends – the Vadeli and other trustworthy news

Fonrit has long waited for the true saviours to come. Your true friends – the wise beyond ages, the beautiful, the charming, the compassionate, the witty conversationalists have arrived. The Vadeli are finally here – or at least their foreshadowing. Come trade, come dance, come talk with them, come to see and buy the loot from the far northern shores and beyond the seas, bring your gold with you – delivery will be cash only. You will not forget this occasion.

Brown Vadeli Trader, Adept
Red Vadeli Soldier, Adept
Vadeli Party
Vadeli Marine Party
The word has come that there is a new kind of Undead around

Draugr
From the jungles and savannah’s the hunters report that there have been sightings of Savanna Buffalo and Hippopotami

RQ Encounter has a tooling revamp and there now exists weapons categories for Monster Island and Mythic Britain with a full set of weapons installed as well as Mythic Britain names.

Most of the two legged denizens of Monster Island have now been retrofitted with the weapons from Monster Island weapon category and tuned a bit as well.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/your-true-friends-the-vadeli-and-other-news/

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RQ Encounter Tool update:

Day of the Undead at Delecti’s Upland Marsh and other enemies

Created a few Delecti related enemies for RQ Encounter Tool based on and inspired by the wonderful articles in an old Tales of the Reaching Moon. If you feel that your players have become upstarts – lead them to Upland Marsh.

Barguest – Spirit Hound
Brontosaurus Zombie
Bronze Dream Dragon Skeleton
Bronze Skeleton
Wyvern Zombie
Pterodactyl Zombie
Plesiosaur Zombie
Griffin Zombie
Aeon the undead roc
Zombie Hadrosaur
Dragonewt beaked warrior, elite zombie
Dancer of Darkness, Delecti Vampire
Zombie Mock Hydra
Petrified Gorilla
Undead Admiral and his Longship
Marsh wight
12 Meter giant zombie
Dark troll zombie
Zorak zoran zombie lich
Great Troll Zombie
Zombiepede
Elf Vampire
Minotaur Vampire
Manticore Vampire
Centaur Vampire
Lesser Vampire
Dancer of Darkness Party
Undead Troll party
Grimoires for sea and march sorcery have been created.

Sorcery Order Marsh and Mist
Sorcery Order of Waves and Depths

Few other enemies have been created as well.

Lich Fonritan
Lich Monster Island
Lich party
Lich Party at Monster Island
Savanger (Bloodbird)
Leaping Bear
Nur-San
Jukhar
Grotaron
Green Elf, Wintered (Undead)
Rhinoceros, Granite
Kivi, Fire Bear
Mastodon
Mraloting
Manticore, Alpha Male
12 Meter. Giant
Gorgon

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/day-of-the-undead-in-delectis-upland-marsh-and-some-additional-enemies/

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Took a tour to Dorastor and created a few templates for missing creatures from the wonderfully unbalanced (in so many ways) from the original book on Dorastor. Some of the enemies can be used outside Dorastor as well though many are very specific to Dorastor. Some of these are quite deadly so take care.

Chaotic Slime Toad
Fiend
Broobat
Triceratops Broo
Stegosaurus Broo
Party: Saurian Broo Party
Slime Broo Shaman
Spidery Slime Broo
Cat like Slime Broo
Stinking Slime Broo
Snail Slime Broo
Party: Slime Broo party
Glarg
Rainbow Gorp
Sky Gorp
Grayskin
Hellwood Elf, Acolyte of Primal Chaos
Hellwood Elf, Acolyte of Tyram
Hellwood Elf, Aldrya initiate
Hellwood Elf Krjalki – Giant
Hellwood Elf Krjalki – Bagog
Hellwood Elf Vampire, Rune lord of Vivamort
Hellwood Elf Aldrya Woodlord, Krjalk Initiate
Hellwood Elf Krjalki Tentacles
Hellwood Elf Krjalki party
Party: Hellwood Elf Warband
Party: Hellwood Krjalki
Scorpion Walktapus
Broo – Thanatari Outcast
Ashman
Chimpanzee
Ancient Illuminated Ape Shaman
Party: Illuminated Shaman Party
Cacodemon
Madman Protector
Howler
Party: Howler Party
Some other enemies as well are now described:

Umathelan Malkioni Sorcerer
Firebat
Spider Spirit Society with spirits, spirit worshippers and shamans
Great Mother Spider
Male Hunter Spider
Female Breeder Spider, Junior
Female Breeder Spider, Mature

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/obviously-unbalanced-chaos-in-dorastor/

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We broke a milestone during the last few days. There are now more than 1600 templates to be generated in the RQ Encounter tool.

Here are a few enemies and encounters found in Griffin Mountain done via RQ Encounter tool. Quite a few of the Balazar encounters already existed but here are a few additions.

Elasmosaur
Water Wyrm and Rune Level Water Wyrm
Warrior of the Wood
Issaries Rune priest giant
6 Meter tall giant in Gonn Orta’s Castle
Party at Gonn Orta
Gaper
Citadel Warrior, Yelmalio Initiate
Citadel Warrior Sergeant
Party: Citadel Warrior Rune Party
Party: Citadel Warrior Party
Trollkin skeleton
Great Troll Skeleton
Mistress Race Troll Mummy
Yelmalio Rune lord in Balazar
Baboon, Shaman of Daka Fal
Baboon War Party
Giant 10, 8, 6, 4 meter
Party: Unruly Giant Party
Ogre Trading Caravan
For Dorastor

Mist Giant
Oonai
For Uzlands (Dagori Inkarth, Halikiv etc)

Karrg Beetle
Watch Beetle
Mistress Race Troll
For Prax

Ostrich
Snake Spirits
Snake Spirit society with shamans and spirit worshippers
Oasis People Snake Shamans and spirit worshippers
Oasis People rabble
Oasis People farmers
At the same time made an update to diseases table – all the diseases in Dorastor and in RQ6 and Monster Island can now be generated. Added also Jungle Diseases table for the Monster Island ones.

Updated all skeletons with skeletal suspectibility to damage.

RQ Encounter tool has a nifty new feature for selecting many of the professional skills. It also shows on the template page the number of times the template has been generated. The counting method has been changed so now all the different ways of generating the encounters count in the number of times starting today. Before today only the ones that were generated from the main search pages counted.

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http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/return-to-griffin-mountain-and-balazar/

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First Encounter batch of 2015 for RQ6.

Anaxial’s Ark has opened its doors and the multitudes of insects, land and sea animals and various chaos and darkness beings that escaped have taken the RQ Encounter tool beyond 1700 template mark to generate enemies from. There should be now enough insects to feed the largest troll army and quite a variety of broos. Among the latest templates created are the following.

Uz lands

Dark Troll Sorceror
Kozoru, Shadow Vampire
Dehori – Grasping Hands plus tuning of most of the shades
Party: Flying Trollkin
Chaos
Bison – Chaos Herd
Bull Broo, Thed Initiate
Bullsitch
Chaos Wasp
Chaos Wolf
Chaotic Giant Constrictor Snake
Chicken Broo
Cloud of Chaotic Gas
Crocodile Broo
Hellwood Dryad gardener
Horse Broo
Hungry Eater
Krarshtkid Broo
Scorpion Broo
Stake Snake

Land Animals

Alligator
Bonacon
Diplodocus
Fell Wolf
Giant Vrok Hawk
Giant Worm
Glyptodon
Golden lion, Male & Female
Great Wolf
Horned Wolf
Nasobeme
Rhea
Storm Tiger
Woolly Serpent

Insects
Changa (Giant Cricket)
Giant Beetle
Giant Bloodgnat
Giant Dragonfly
Giant Elkhorn Beetle
Giant Fly
Giant Leech
Giant Peripatus
Giant solpugid
Giant Whipscorpion
Giant Woodlouse
Ham Beetle

Sea & Rivers
Flocks of Piranha (small to enormous)
Giant Shark
Ichtyosaur
Kronosaur
Sea Horse
Sea Lion
Seal
Walrus
Whale

Other
Dringi, Free Jolanti
Fachan
Gordayan
Hollri
Lycanthropy Spirit
Serpent Guardian
Spirit Wolf
It is easy to search for templates you need, just select either home, enemies or parties page and fill out the search criteria by typing a word or words and/or select an filter.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/opening-the-doors-of-the-anaxials-ark-hundreds-of-beasts-escape/

[Hannu Kokko]

RQ Encounter is now returning to the roots by taking a trip thru memory lane to Snakepipe Hollow

Back in the very early days there was a wonderful scenario for Runequest called Snakepipe Hollow and then RQ Adventures did a return to the Snakepipe Hollow 20 years ago. For Runequest 6 one would surely need worthy opponents in Snakepipe Hollow. For nostalgia’s (and education’s sake) added the missing enemies. Many of the ones were already existing and created just a tag for them. Here are few – updated for RQ6 – some of them are somewhat deadlier than in the original.

Both Hands of Chaos are it again.

Clawed Hand (they are almost always encountered singly) and the Left Clawed Hand of Chaos is more often on the move
There is now a Malia Service with Broos and lots of Sickness Spirits. This caused a tuning of the sickness spirits so that they contain now all the information of the sickness spread with the spirit.
Chaos Snakes also have a party now and they have been updated.
Gorps, there are lots of Gorps and also Manlings, where those two exist – Pocharngo is not far behind so updated the Slithering Pocharngo party
Colossal Breeder Gorp
Micro Gorp
Exploder Gorp
Regenerating Gorp
Paralyzing Gorp
Glue Gorp and of course
Diseased Gorp
Giant, 12 meter in Snakepipe Hollow
There are a few obscure ones that have not been seen in publications since Snakepipe Follow like

Chaos Pit Monster
Veralzi
Some existing parties have been updated and placed into Snakepipe Hollow. Use a filter with name “Nest of Chaos” in Party Encounters and press the “Do you Feel Lucky” button – you’ll see a party appropriate for the Heart of Chaos in Snakepipe Hollow. It will include among other parties

Broo Raiders and Broos on the Road for Ragnaglar and Thed.
Dark Troll Hunting Party and a war party
Dragonewt Ambassador, Expedition, Revenge Mission and Dragonewts on Warpath
Ogre Trading Caravan and an Ogre Hunting Party
Some desperate Sartarites with Sartar Earthshakers
Scorpionmen Raiding parties
Unruly Giants
Thanatari Headhunting Mission from nearby Engoli tribe
Tusk Rider party and Urain Foul Wind Party

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/back-to-the-roots-returning-to-snakepipe-hollow/

[Hannu Kokko]

Uz of Shadows Dance – Trollball and Other Troll Pursuits from Dagori Inkarth

It is time to return to Dagori Inkarth and visit the famed Skyfall Lake and see the Uz at their best – at a Trollball match.RQ Encounter Generator will generate stats for more trolls. Based on “Into the Troll Realms” which contains the two famous Trollball teams here is a way to create your own Trollball teams with the rules tuned for RQ6. Full rules exist in the “Into the Troll Realms” but an abbreviated version will be found with the “Trollball Staff”

Dark Troll, Trollball Blocker
Dark Troll, Trollball Passer
Dark Troll, Trollball Alternate
Dark Troll, Trollball Catcher
Great Troll, Trollball Goalie
Party: Trollball team
Party: Trollball staff
Should you anger your hosts they might set a pursuit pack on you or two.
Troll Pursuit Pack
Argan Argar Troll Hunters
Wolf Spiders
Should you escape the hunters – you might encounter
Troll Caravan that has been expanded quite a bit
Giant Maggot
Superior Trollkin
Food Trollkin
Food Trollkin, Unarmed
Trollkin Warrior – Runt
Fighting Fungus (Voralan)
Most of the trolls have now been updated with the “Hate the Sun”, “Vulnerable to Iron” and other abilities needed.

You will find more troll parties and enemies with filters Uz and Uz lands.

notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/uz-of-shadows-dance-trollball-and-other-troll-pursuits-from-dagori-inkarth/

Read more: http://gringlespawnshop.proboards.com/thread/410/rq6-encounter-tool?page=2#ixzz3OM9SLd2G

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And the link is https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1074&action=edit

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https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/uz-of-shadows-dance-trollball-and-other-troll-pursuits-from-dagori-inkarth/

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Grrr. Cannot seem to edit the previous posts – says ‘you are not allowed to edit’…

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RQ Encounter goes to town to check out the taverns and bars

RQ Encounter tool has been enhanced with new tools for building taverns. We received a permission from Johnn Four of the fabulous RoleplayingTips.com to extend our taverns with the tables from his GM Mastery Book Three: Adventure Essentials: Inns & Taverns. He is offering 100% off the PDF version of Inns & Taverns

There is now Tavern Names – Ports and Tavern Names – Cities feature table to provide names for the bars. Room Quirks provide varying quirky rooms and Tavern Themes can be used to set a theme for the bar.

There are now also RQ6 rules for getting drunk in the taverns – this was based on Sebastian Jansson’s excellent suggestion at the design mechanism forum.

State of intoxication table has been added and you can see its effects on any of the drunk members in the bars.

Taverns and bars also have a drink menu automatically generated for various strengths of drink.

Tavern Names, Tavern Themes, Room Quirks and many of the added “Activities at bar” inspired by “GM Mastery: Inns & Taverns Essentials” and used with permission of Johnn Four of RolePlayingTips These have been tuned a bit to fit a RuneQuest/Glorantha context.

All of the current establishments (bar templates) have been updated with the above

List of new things

Drinking rules for Runequest 6
Tavern themes
Greatly expanded activity at bar table
Tavern names for cities
Tavern names for ports
Room quirks
State of intoxication
Drinks menus provided and can be added to taverns
Drunkenness table for the patrons of the bar
Bars to visit tonight

Bar at a port city
Bar at Fonrit
Bar at Monster Island Settlement
Gimpy’s at Pavis on a Quiet Night
Loud Lilina’s at Pavis on a Rough Night
There is usually always the big guy to oppose you – the big barbarian in the corner, the bodyguard of the boss, the sergeant. He could be just the really big and strong one the big Wolf Pirate, the blacksmith, the strongest man in the tribe. Now there are templates for a few of these at various levels

Bison Nomad, Storm Bull worshipper – the strongest guy in the camp
Primitive Islander Veteran Warrior, Strong Man
Fonritian Slave Soldier Bodyguard – Initiate of Evukindu
He could be also the guy nobody likes to fight – the unstoppable one – the only undefeated champion in the history of gladiator fights – the Tigris of Gaul, he could be Onslaught, Conan the Cimmerian, Marv in the Sin City, Kull of Atlantis – basically a fighter at the top of his game – does not use much magic but just the physical skills.Here is a version of one such. The version might not fit the power level of your game so tune up accordingly if needed.

Elf, troll,dwarf, dragonewt and eastern weapons (non official versions) have been added to the selection of weapons. Have you wanted to roll a disorder keg down the corridor against the attacking trolls – here is your chance. Volley of blunderbuss fire to clear out the too far extended tunnels of the Sazdorf clan – fire away. Have you wished to bash in the skull of these pesky Mostali aberrations with your troll maul – your wish has come true. Have you wanted to draw your klanth and embed into the stealers of draconic secrets – that can be done now. Have your Vormaini pirates missed their katana, naginata and the long forgotten yari – now they are here. Yari-nage, Chokin, utuma – all exist now. You can select now two new categories in the templates – Gloranthan and Eastern weapons.

The weapon calculations now also take into account the size of the wielder.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/rq-encounter-goes-to-town-to-check-out-the-taverns-and-bars/

[Hannu Kokko]

RQ6 Encounter Tool 101 – Finding and generating your enemies

Created a small visual guide to getting up to speed with RQ Encounter Tool. This first version is for finding and generating your enemies.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/rq-encounter-tool-101-generating-encounters-guide/

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RQ6 Encounter Tool 101 Part 2 – Creating NPC’s and Parties

Here is a visual guide how to create NPC’s with RQ Encounter Tool.

This second guide concentrates on how to create NPC’s and parties. It gives a stepwise example of creating both basic and stronger NPC’s for a barbarian campaign. The example is for Sartar and Orlanthi but would be widely applicable to most campaigns.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/rq-encounter-tool-101-part-2-creating-npcs-and-parties/

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