Scornado

Wish these vids had continued .. watching them second time round now!

Went and saw the Burma Exhibition before Christmas and saw those very objects.  The BM is a fine place to be able to visit for an hour or two - but only if you live in London like me!

Thanks David.

Another question has just come up.

p72 Lankhor Mhy Rune Priest - these are titled Sages.  However, in canon there is at least one instance of a Lankhor Mhy follower being termed sage who is not Rune Priests - Jorjera Latish in Starter Set book 2 - she has POW 12 so cannot be a Rune Priest.  Is there a specific term for a proper LM Rune Priest?   Alternatively, is the Starter Set wrong?

22 hours ago, Scornado said:

Just a query about Jonstown Compendium ... is there any danger that material may be superseded and invalidated by a canon publication? 

 

OK guys, it was only asked to satisfy my curiosity .... my Glorantha already varies, and our gaming is SLOW.  Thanks for all your thoughts though ....

Just a query about Jonstown Compendium ... is there any danger that material may be superseded and invalidated by a canon publication? 

Because I've set the scenario 1 year after the liberation, the approach of the anniversary causing the wyter to "wake up", I have assumed that over the year any other Seven Mothers cultists have left Jonstown (or died) because it's just not a good place to live any more.  The dwindling congregation must have an effect on the wyter, indeed I assume it has contributed to its madness.  The way things are going, the remaining few Seven Mothers worshippers are going to leave for points north in my campaign.  The departure of the last remaining congregants will probably solve the problem as the wyter will wither and presumably dissipate or return to the spirit world.  The loss of the congregation is a weak point for setting the story a year after the liberation: of course, as the wyter is "mad" it may not behave as a normal wyter would - that's my excuse. 

My instance (linked above) is PBeM and that means the players have a lot of time to think and find holes in the plot ... oh yes.

9 hours ago, Nick Brooke said:

Hey, @Scornado, are you trying to generalise based on the incident described in “A Fire in the Darkness”? It seems to me that would be a bad idea, for what I’d have thought were fairly obvious reasons.

Quite the opposite - I am trying to determine in FiD what it is reasonable for a PC to do within the confines of existing rules or conventions.  In a way it does not matter for MGF but I'd prefer to know what rules I am bending before bending them.

I am currently running this scenario but set a year after the liberation of Jonstown.  It's a great scenario but you have to do some work.  See here for my write-up - it may give some ideas https://www.scorn.me.uk/RQ website/Stories/1626-3 Earth Season C2.html

thanks.  pretty much what I had concluded. 

So for a temple wyter, does it have to be a Rune Priest (not just someone fulfilling the priest role - as Ferene in Fire in the Darkness)?

If the senior Rune Priest of a temple dies unexpectedly, what happens to the temple wyter?  Does it hang around for 7 days (during which the priest could be resurrected) and the new senior priest consequently has some time to "adopt" it?  (What happens if it is adopted and then the priest is resurrected?)

p.89, Nature Of The Cult, 1st para, 2nd sentence, "takes lovers, who she then plows her lovers beneath the Earth" -> "takes lovers, whom she then plows beneath the Earth".

Thanks MOB - that's very helpful.  I don't have Cults of Prax (way before my starting with Glorantha) so your wise words will tide me over until the new book in March.

I am unable to find anything about Seven Mothers funereal practices: is anything available?

Runequest Starter Set in books 2 and 4 and Jonstown Map) - Jonstown has a "Merchant's Quarter" - should that be more than one merchant, as in "Merchants'"?    Similarly, for "Crafter's" and "Scholar's".

14 hours ago, Nick Brooke said:

I have a few collected thoughts about Dart Wars, Lunar Assassins, Blue Moon Assassins and the like in my Gloranthan Manifesto, which is a free download or a cheap paperback. See pages 117-118.

Thanks I will look. I see from the blurb at DriveThruRPG you're an Oxford man ... our paths may have crossed. 

The situation I have is that it is 1626 and Argrath is to make a flying visit to his birthplace and the cousin of the Thane of Apple Lane has been asked to arrange some pre-visit security ... what could go wrong?

2 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

I haven’t read it, but there is Blue Moon, White Moon from John Wick:

• A one-encounter adventure you can use to springboard other adventures or add in between longer campaigns.

• A new Background: Blue Moon Assassin, including new spells and magic items.

Only $0.99 (for 14 pages), so maybe worth a punt.

It indeed is worth a punt and I have punted, thanks.

Is there anything available to buy - perhaps in the Jonstown Compendium - that covers the basics of Lunar Assassns in the broader sense?  I have all the RQG books published so far and for GMing reasons cannot wait until Chaosium publish anything next year.  Thanks in advance.

36 minutes ago, Nick Brooke said:

Gagarth.

Thank you - I was not aware of that one.  Very helpful

30 minutes ago, Godlearner said:

I wouldn't be so sure. Robin Hood anyone?

Yes, but in this case I want the bad guys, not the alternately good ones.  The ones who rob from the rich and the poor, and probably stab them too.

Trying to produce a pack of bandits operating in south-west Sartar ad wondering what cults they might be members of.  I assume banditry is dishonourable so Humakt is out.  Orlanth Adventurous seems possible though there's some question of honour there.  I know RQG has the bandit profession and suggests the Gors, Eurmal, Black Fang etc.  Only the last seems truly nasty.  The rest, except perhaps Eurmal, seem to require a certain deviation from what is expected of an initiate to become a proper bandit.

What about the more despicable types - the looters and murderers?

On 3/1/2023 at 7:00 PM, Jeff said:

The release of Sartar and Dragon Pass and the rest are freed up by the release of Lightbringers, Earth, and Mythology - all which make those books easier to handle. Sartar and Dragon Pass (which already have all their art) free up Prax, Pavis, and Big Rubble. The Lunar, Solar, Darkness, Horned God, Sea, etc. books all are on their track and not in the same lane for those others. They open up the Dragon Pass Campaign, and others.

In short, we have a metric ton of RQ that gets opened up by this.

But Lightbringers and Earth are foundational for doing more with the Orlanthi.

So with those three books released, when Sartar?  I'm sure we're all keen if not desperate.  (I also look forward to something on the Lunars so I can understand them finally).

Thanks David, that is comforting.  About the Rotroots, I had not spotted that but I don't think I need to retcon.  The Thane position seems a bit odd anyway as Apple Lane is a tiny place and the thaneship seems to cross clan borders.  I've rationalised it in my game (on my website) and we've just got on with the game.  There are far more important things happening than petty local squabbles anyway: Argrath plans to visit his birthplace on the Starfire Ridges, a sort of state visit!