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Secret Chaos is totally a thing, though. Ogres look like anybody else most of the time, for example.

Range is still limited to your immediate area, but if the local bureaucracy's been subverted by Karshti or something, things are going to get rough. I wonder how sensitive they are to less Chaos-rune-active social anathema stuff like secret murder, sexual assault, or kin slaying? Black Fang's runes are Death & Spirit, but secret murder is kind of their thing. Serial rapists can eventually turn into Broo. Can a sufficiently corrupt official eventually pick up Karshtid features? How far down such a road can someone go before they ping Uroxi-sense?

(The elephant story is a pretty good point of reference for understanding Little Suns as well, IMO. The trunk, tusk, leg, etc. are all the elephant, yet a trunk is not a tusk - despite both being long tapered structures at the front of the elephant's face.)

My take is that the different approaches are somewhat akin to the parable of the blind men describing the elephant. None of them are wrong about their experiences and observations, but neither are their understandings comprehensive - even if you take them all together. An Orlanth worshipper, a Pentan who treats with West King Wind, and a Zzaburi pondering a tome of allegorical tales and sorcerous formulae attributed to Worlath will approach and relate to their otherworldly subject very differently, and certain approaches might be better suited to different applications, but they are all valid - if incomplete.

You wouldn't want to copy & paste Chaosium's notice, as it's written from their perspective (our/us) in places. The last line should also perhaps go better up in the attribution section, but that doesn't invalidate it. They also muddied the waters a bit with those reservations of other game names, as last I checked there weren't any references to most of them in the SRD (there's no need/point to reserve something that was never presented in the first place), though that doesn't actually hurt anything in terms of actual usage either. What you would need to do is write or work with an attorney to write a notice that is orientated towards you and your work. You identify your own ownership, and how you would like to be attributed by anyone incorporating your rules. Acknowledge Chaosium and any other upstream licensors in the fashion they recommend in their own ORC notices. Enumerate any non-rules things you are either calling out as reserved or deliberately licensing on for others to use. And so on. This is of course just my understanding as a non-lawyer who happens to have been involved in small ways with both the QWSRD and ORC License development and formerly dealt with licensing compliance for a broadcaster. Sharing this perspective is not legal advice though. If the license and AXE aren't clear to you, consulting an attorney is a wise course of action. Perhaps even contact Azora Law. They wrote it, after all.

I've long found the minimum levels to be somewhat incoherent with the idea that ratings are measures of metafictional problem solving efficacy moreso than quantifying in-fiction capability. The mechanics work fine with either approach, but using one approach for some things and the other elsewhere can lead to some cognitive dissonance.

You don't need to reproduce the entire ORC license, but you do need a bit more than you have there. ORC compliance requires a few things, of which crediting your upstream licensors is only one. ORC License section III details the things you need to include: ORC Notice Attribution Reserved Material Expressly Designated Licensed Material (if you are licensing on anything that would normally be reserved) ORC License section III.e has a sample/template for you to use in making your own notice. You're not required to use that exact format, but those are the points you need to get across to recipients.

Ian announced at Dragonmeet: PDF in the next month or so, print Q2 of next year!

Hot on the heels of the ORC SRD release, a new 3rd party QuestWorlds game has appeared! Get Alliance on itch.io! https://roguecomet.itch.io/alliance

Good eye, thanks. Expect an update with the Library of Congress TX# included and a few other front-matter tweaks soon as well.

ORC-Licensed QWSRD has been pushed to Github: https://github.com/ChaosiumInc/QuestWorlds/blob/master/docs/QuestWorlds.pdf

In a game I ran we had an Asrelia subcult for gamblers and prospectors. I could certainly see Eurmal and Lanbril providing cheating magic, though by different means.

Oh, but Orlanth intervening within Time to strike down Zistor overlaps God Time there, much like the Battle of Castle Blue. It makes for an interesting contrast in the outcomes between Orlanth slaying the upstart deity in the former case, yet failing in the latter.

Further, I love that the word "Lanbril" appears exactly one time in the Guide; just enough to assert his ongoing existence, no more, no less. Sneaky bastard.

I also think that they obtain their magitech gadget secrets by heroquesting to the Fall of Zistorwal and impersonating the Mostali confiscating contraband items.