Baron Wulfraed

Woah! Has any thought been given to making a simple /downloadable/ PDF (no fancy backgrounds, images -- just a copyright page and tables) out of all those pages/tables

"Will X make rune status this year?" Going by RQ:RiG p295/296, this is only possible IF there is an opening for a new "Master Hunter". I suspect that last paragraph should read "If an initiate manages..." since a large tribe might have more than one Master Hunter and still have a vacancy; and obviously, if one of the MHs brings in the "most impressive", one would not be elevating an initiate... Also "two or more initiates" Hmmm -- there's a chance for intra-tribal role-play conflict. In1: "I could have been a Master Hunter but you ruined it for me" In2: "What do you mean I 'ruined it'! You ruined by chances to be elevated!" In1: <slaps In2 with rabbit carcass> ...

Shouldn't that be a basket of cobras? 😱

It also had a section on random encounters, calculations on how to match the encountered strength levels to the party, and treasure. While Jonstown now has a contributed encounter pamphlet I'm still holding out for such tables to appear in either the Campaign or GM references when they come out... If one goes back to 2nd Ed AD&D -- RQ:RiG corresponds to the Player's Handbook, and we are still waiting for the equivalent to the GM Guide (we have the Monster [Bestiary] and Magic books [though I'm still awaiting notification that the print copy is ready to ship]). Granted the RQ GM book has sort of split, with the separate Campaign book (I'd expect encounter tables and pregen squad stats).

The dagger is most likely being used in a thrust, which means initial impact is all on a very small point. The greatsword is used in chopping motion, meaning the impact tends to be spread over a longer region of the blade -- and said impact is likely to just be moving a lot of armor (plate might get bent, various mail will flex [I do think there should be some mode of crushing damage with no armor penetration] and even wrap around the blade. Okay -- how does one delete part of a split-quote?

Ever play the (FPS) Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem ? Not only does the character undergo sanity loss during encounters with the enemy, but if said sanity goes low-enough, the game starts messing with you the player... Images of cockroaches scurrying across the screen, an emulation of the volume level being changed, and even "Thank you for playing ... The game will continue in a sequel..." (IE; an implication that the game you've been playing ends without a resolution and you have to buy another installment to continue).

I could probably have managed the 3-level grouping (mentioned previously) IF I hadn't put the #encountered/perception%/stealth% in the same table. Granted, I laid out the table in portrait orientation, as all the other tables for RQ seem to placed. If I'd started with the page format landscape, I'd have used more pages, but had the width to do the deep-dive groups. Between Word's "split cell" and "merge cells" it was possible to have common values span rows, while still having entity specific data. Word even took into account if there was a row split in a prior column and offered that as the choice for how to split the current.

Ah... Good. Looks like I guessed right when putting together range and reaction tables in Word (Hmm, wonder what my old Corel PDF Fusion is doing -- adding my four pages to the end of the PDF file and saving /shrinks/ the file down to under 2MB from 24MB (or whatever). And yes -- I spent about 6 hours yesterday making both tables; got complex when an encounter type had subgroups... I didn't try to format for subgroups of subgroups (wild animals: general|Dinos|Bugs: individual species).

Possible emulation of Odin/Wotan -- who is reputed to have hanged himself (as a sacrifice to himself!)... Spent a week dangling as I recall. So being sacrificed by hanging could be looked on as highly favorable condition -- bringing one closer to Odin (rapidly). Starting to sound like something from a HeroQuest...

Page 4: MARSH Close 1-7 Medium 7-16 Bit of an overlap, no? Page 5: Chaos Monsters Friendly 1-1 Cautious 6-8 Bit of a gap I'd concur on adding two tables: a table for RANGE Terrain:close:medium:long a table for REACTION Encountered:Friendly:Cautious:Hostile Actually -- that table might be expanded with the #encountered and the perception/stealth skill values. That would leave the sections "Types of Terrain" and "Encounter Types" as just descriptive text.

I seem to recall reading that (real) rhinos are extremely near-sighted -- which may influence charging at any moving object outside the range of visual acuity (it may be a threat). Hopefully Praxian rhinos take "steering" hints well...

Uhm -- are the projectiles used by an atlatl that much different from routine (thrown) spears? Training may be different, but wouldn't use of the atlatl imply one is using "spears" 😱

Based upon the facet that Hunter occupational skill also includes missile weapon, I can sort of understand the lack of peaceful cut. To me, peaceful cut is more of a slaughterhouse type skill, where one is in direct contact with the animal -- eg: slitting throat with sharp knife. It isn't hitting a whitetail deer broadside with an arrow from 50 paces (that arrow could be landing anywhere in an 8" diameter circle depending upon wind and thin brush). A heart hit is likely going to be quick, but a lung hit is going to result in a slower death. Ah, now that Acrobat has actually found the entry for peaceful cut in the rulebook, it just reinforces my take on the skill. The hunter is probably not undertaking the "butchering" in the field beyond gutting the animal. Dismembering/dividing up the animal likely takes place back at the home village -- and might be performed by someone skilled in that (grab the herder 🙄 or a priest [sacrifices]). Fur-bearing animals caught in traps, and vermin, probably don't get "butchered", just skinned.

Take into account the side-bar (page 330, RQ:RiG) for Heal Wound, another "common" Rune spell (emphasis is mine). So it may mean that Summon Cult Spirit (or ANY "common" Rune spell) can also differ per cult, the Orlanth Thunderous variant allows for "Thunder Brother" to be a target. Variation partly based upon the cult primary Runes.

An agnostic wouldn't last too long either... All it should take is a manifestation (or, given how many there are in Glorantha, an infestation of manifestations) of various god(s) to convert the agnostic to something else (I won't say "gnostic" as that has some hidden baggage of its own)

What if there is an unknown high mass object OUTSIDE the bottom of the "universe" sphere -- if it is far enough away, and massive enough to exceed Glorantha's pull to center of mass, the gravitational pull would be practically parallel for all corners of the Glorantha land mass. Of course, what keeps the "universe" sphere from being drawn into this massive object is something else (Gloranthan equivalent of "Atlas" -- standing on the massive object and supporting the sphere on his shoulders). Can't use mutual orbits, as that would make things (since we posited the object overwhelms Glorantha's land mass) on land weightless. Hmmm, turn the situation on its head: The sphere is in orbit, tidally locked with the SKY facing the object, and centrifugal/centripetal force takes the place of gravity... Needs some work on details...

I'd probably rule that, while the caster may ask for "some type", the deity (GM) may still send something else -- or ignores the request entirely. The trick now is to define some means of determining which outcome takes place. Maybe GM rolls players spell chance with success=receives "some type", failure=receives something other than the requested type -- but which should still be helpful to the situation, fumble=ignored by deity or something not useful is sent.

No need to invoke a separate culture... From: https://www.racingexplained.co.uk/racehorses/all-about-the-thoroughbred/

And here you hit on what I find most lacking in current RQ:RiG publications... The core ruleset and GM package do not provide guidelines for one to develop ad-hoc gaming sessions... No general purpose encounter tables, no guidelines for "treasure" aligned to defeated opponents (heck, no guides to matching ad-hoc opponents to party strength) -- as is found in a few pages near the back of the RQ2 manual. Everything seems to be focused upon $$ adventure scenarios. Even if one plans to use a published scenario, one may still need to get the party members /to/ the scenario -- what happens while they are on the road to that starting place? Yes, RQ:RiG gets much deeper into Glorantha than RQ2 ever did -- but not every gaming group has time or $$$ to actually delve into that history and culture at the start.

Regarding Death... Locate a copy, and watch The Asphyx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asphyx)

Based on the characters I've generated -- most "starting characters" will have three rune points available (okay, just noticed you did use all three -- to get the 3D6 rating). Rune/Divine magic has pretty much always been painful to obtain and use... At least RQ:RiG has finally made them reusable by mere mortals (rather than only the rune priests of RQ2, where mere mortals had to sacrifice POW to obtain/reload a one-use rune spell*). My take: if you are going to ask the god to lend you some ability, you better have a very good reason to ask. "Interrupting" the god just to fling a spell at every encounter is what "doesn't seem like a great use of a God's resources", to me. * In my RQ2 days, I recall only one player even attempting to make use of rune/divine magic, and that was only one character (our group often had three or more characters at various skill levels, allowing the GM to vary from simple starter conflicts to more complex situations based upon the mood of the group.

cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_percussion

Brings to mind an old sketch (drawing, not acting) I once did on a boring day at work. A play on the stereotyped gangster "disposal" method... "Nut'in' personal, Bassie, but da boss says youse got a big mouth -- so youse got to sleep wit' da birdies" (minions tying a helium filled balloon around the tail of a large-mouth bass)

China might disagree... cf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army#Types_and_appearance Granted, those had been buried for centuries, so not exposed to weather...

What if my feet/shoes/boots are equipped with crampons? (Ice cleats)... And I've got a spike on top of my helmet...