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Just want to clarify a point about Darkwalk. If you can't actually see in the dark (because you are a troll perhaps or you have say a Darksee spell or something) you can't really do that much other than hide or fumble about (which fortunately is silenced...). Which is not to say it is useless at all. It does limit it. Or do people just assume that it also gives the caster some form of Darksee, which seems a bit over the top to me... Cheers

Prax is where your heart is?

Lunar Sorcerers (via Irripi Ontor) are likely more common than Lunar Sorcery (via the Red Goddess).

What part is causing issues? Inspiration?

I'm looking forward to this. My old Avalon hill box (1985), disintegrated years ago and the paper covered books of the contents are in very bad shape with use. So even a reprint would have been welcome. If the rest of the volumes come out by the end of next year, it will be a very welcome 40 year update.

For those not aware, becoming an initiate of Red Goddess requires not only illumination, but a priest or lord of a Lunar cult, then pass a test and gain a Chaos taint at 20%. If I recall correctly, we've only had one NPC stated up as an initiate (Maculus in Strangers in Prax). I suspect Adventurers and NPCs with Lunar Sorcery will be few and far between.

That sounds and looks like a mighty useful tool indeed!

If it isn´t broken: Don´t fix it!

Sounds like what's going through my head... A couple of number changes, but essentially another C&P from... 40 years ago? However, I do get that there's the need to introduce this to the new fanbase, and so old grognards aren't the main priority to write for.

Ephemeris works fine - here it is a few minutes ago running with CheerpJ plugin in Chrome. See The Movable Ephemeris and the Gloranthan Sky (1997).

I understand Jeff had someone talented redraw the Sky Dome diagrams from pages 67-71 of my free Manifesto for the Solar Cults book. They should help you with back-and-forth motions, different day lengths and the like. I had to look very carefully at this sort of thing when I programmed my old Ephemeris, but that was a quarter-century ago and only @David Scott knows if it's possible to find a working version these days.

Here's the link to the big version I did: Moon Phases Animation (2012)

I must confess, I'm a bit disappointed the Lunar Magic is just a reprint of the 3e rules. I was expecting a new perspective like what Chaosium did for the sorcery rules in RQG. I'm going to buy the book, of course, but it seems like a missing opportunity to me.

I can’t speak about astronomy in general, but the Red Moon is straightforward enough. She floats in the Middle Air, 3,000km above The Crater (although she appears larger and closer the more you approach). She slowly rotates, taking one week to complete her cycle, showing different phases depending where in Genertela you’re observing her from https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/the-size-of-the-red-moon/ . More about cosmology here https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/understanding-gloranthan-cosmology/ , and the sun and the sky here https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/lightfore-and-the-sun/

OK, I believe it but I have never seen a reference for it, nor up to now any information about the angle between a line through the red moon's poles and the plane defined by the surface of Glorantha. I would really like to see a canon explanation of Gloranthsn astronomy in general. This is not the first time I have said that. .

The sorcery spells for Irippi Ontor are listed as well- https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/cha4034-the-red-book-of-magic/sorcery-spell-list/

For a bit of a mechanical preview, the rune spells for each cult have been added to the alphabetical lists on the Well. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/cha4034-the-red-book-of-magic/rune-magic-by-cult-and-associate-cult/

On the site formerly known as Twitter, Chaosium posted 2 days ago that the Pendragon core rules and Grey Knight (and RuneQuest Lunar Cults) "will be out in release very, very soon". They show photos of actual books, which seems like a good sign!

So I'm going through my copy of brpuge, and digging through the forums here, and I have questions. 1: I need help with 'Passions'. I mean, I think I get it, but then the idea of fear as a passion trips me up. Can someone kindly tell me how fear as a passion works, possibly in comparison to some other passion that makes sense to me (such as loyalty, for example). 2: I have found conversions of Dark Sun and And 2e to BRP. Has anyone taken a stab at converting Spelljammer?

Wait! Was that a nysalorian riddle.

The Lunar magic of the Red Goddess only affects spirit magic. (It's the same skills that were in the old RQ3 Gods of Glorantha book.) Irrippi Ontor does have sorcery - largely aligned with the Moon, Fire, and Truth Runes (and tied in well to the heavenly bodies).

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It will be available on the Chaosium website in print soon too; we needed physical copies for Chaosium Con in Ann Arbor and DTRPG is the fastest way to get that done.

This handy animated GIF shows the Red Moon's rotation, and the different phases for different regions. Not sure if anyone has compiled a complete set of phases per day outside of Dragon Pass.

I can see thats tough to resolve without being overly generous and remaining realistic. I’d see what the players want to do first, particularly the player left behind. It might be that they are ok about their character taking ‘one for the team’. They might think a heroic death by execution is a good motivation for their new character wanting revenge for a wrong. Feuds are good. Other options might be someone who is sympathetic on the inside helping with the escape. Perhaps different factions within the castle using the prisoner to further their own agenda? The prisoner is allowed to escape but has to carry out some task that might not benefit the players? Or they lose something that they don’t want in return for a ransom? An outside party negotiates the release but leaves the players bound to the negotiator? It might vary from the written scenario but I think if it is a realistic solution then it is workable. I always like moral ambiguity in solutions, so the players may be forced to act in ways that they are uncomfortable with or at least make them think. I’m happy to flesh out any ideas with you if it’d be helpful for you