Baron Wulfraed

Probably some block by AT&T (main suspect -- I don't have key for use with HTTPS, so it is bare HTTP). Thanks... Reluctant is so named as it does /not/ want to change direction once it starts moving. Hungry OTOH had a balance that allowed for quick direction changes, and it did "eat" a cookie tin. Note that these first items from the Museum Replicas subdivision of Atlanta Cutlery did not have any edges (a cold chisel was much sharper). Gaming convention, I'd loaned them to the SCA room wall display. Hilary of Serendip normally used her custom-made sword to beat on a cookie tin to count out time during demo melee rounds. For a lecture about how swords seldom had really sharp edges in that period, she asked permission to use Hungry for a demo. She basically held the sword over the cookie tin, and relaxed her wrist so the blade pivoted under gravity. Unlike prior demos where the sword just put deep dents into the tin, my sword with no edge actually went through the bottom of the tin, only stopping when the tip hit the table. Granted, a cookie tin is not "armor", but imagine what a simple cold chisel edge might have done.

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Think you need a public accessible link for the first.

Too many to spam here... I still don't know if the site http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/swords/swords.htm is actually reachable from outside (my cellphone won't access it). It's hosted on an R-Pi inside my LAN -- so not the fasted thing around given my upload speed. (And I'm using door way trim strips for comparison).

Duck a L'Orange? No worse then the three ducks I generated as an exercise. Hua'rd (Howard the duck) Orlanth initiate, noble, with 100% broadsword, and Cowardice at 60%, 9HP [might explain the cowardice} Drake Anatidae Orlanth initiate, chariot driver, broadsword 95%, 12HP Akn'Ard (a canard) Humakt initate, warrior - lt. inf., 100% short sword, 100% dagger, 17HP

I think that was just a guest appearance in the latest installment, in line with prior story lines in which prior incarnations appear (I'm some 13 episodes behind on the DVR). They've never reverted to an earlier incarnation in the past 30+ years. Per Wikipedia EEK! He played Igor in a prequel to the 60s "The Munsters" Oh dear... My condolences. We had a player attempt a Duck back in the days of RQ2 (when I was active)... Mostly it turned into jokes about having to clean up yellow stains, and not being allowed into some villages. On the other side, the GM had us encounter a Duck village, and the joke for that was that many of the party could /step over/ the village walls.

Considering who portrayed Radagast anything was possible (Seventh Doctor went from comedic to rather dark at times -- including a hint that in one timeline, he /was/ Merlin). At least one can understand Daffy... Imagine a bad Donald impersonation...

I'm having difficulty in putting my view into words but... Truesword -- based upon the name, makes the sword sort of an archetype of a sword: something optimized for cut/slash/thrust (depending up base sword type) doing cutting damage. For the duration, it changes the nature of the sword itself. Bladesharp -- to me doesn't change the sword, it creates a virtual cutting edge at the real sword edges (or covers the real edge with an unseen razor edge). This unseen edge is what does the extra damage, followed by the real edge doing damage in the "opening" created by the spell's damage. I view Fireblade similarly -- the fire "covers" the blade, but does not change the blade's nature itself (other than the fire overriding the blade's normal damage).

While Osiris would be jealous -- after all, they were unable to recover one desirable piece.

Well, modern days you can cast iron -- but wouldn't want it for a steel weapon (too grainy and porous -- look at any old engine block or cast iron fry pan [or unglazed cast dutch oven].

The primary difference is that bronze "work-hardens" -- one needs to heat it to anneal it into a less-brittle state before continuing to hammer on it. Hammering out a shape can be done with nearly cold bronze. Creating a sword edge /ends/ with hammering the edge to make it hard. In contrast, while steel does need to be heated to work it, and cold steel doesn't move under hammering, it also needs to be quenched (temperature below working heat, but above the point where it attracts a magnet, then dipped into oil or <shudder> water) to harden the steel.

The Mithras comparison may be closer than thought... The Mithras cult was "mystery religion" restricted to men (at least as the Romans adopted it) with worship held in secret. Mithras had a documented date of birth of... December 25 (or equivalent Persian date). The early Christian Church leaders selected December 25 as DoB for Jesus to subdue Mithras worship... After all, you now have the excluded wives of those worshippers who now pressure the men to come to Christian ceremonies since such ceremonies welcome the entire family -- instead of having the wife sit at home alone... Consider -- gospels imply shepherds were watching flocks... But at that time of year, the flocks would have been brought in from the fields and placed in fenced areas. Late January to late February is when shepherds would be watching flocks -- as that is lambing season and the shepherds would be watching for ewes having problems. The census is also likely held in warmer weather. Jesus was more likely to have been born early March...

No exposure to "solo RPGs", per se... Solo /adventures/ for an RPG, OTOH... RQ2/Classic has random encounter tables. DriveThru does offer https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/357562/Close-Encounters-of-the-Sartar-Kind The only other thing I know of similar was the Traveller Patron tables. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/80148/Classic-TravellerCTS0676-Patrons and https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/57221/Supplement-1-760-Patrons (obviously not usable with RQ).

Especially not the trash can lids used in Ivanhoe. No mass to reduce impacts, and so thin they folded up around the arm of the user -- yet they've got helmets that come through unscathed.

Presume that image is from some cult of Mithras

Small beer stein with (tight) latching lid and you've created grenades. 🧐

At that point, I'd probably consider it the equivalent of (stainless) steel.

Well... thermite is a mix of aluminum and iron oxide (rust), and we do have supposed equivalent Gloranthan metals (I presume Gloranthan "iron" is subject to rust). Igniting the mix may take some effort (or some magic).

Burning magnesium and thermite.

I'm tempted to suggest just calling him "Dion" (a god often parodied as borderline drunk can probably live with a shortened nick-name), but we're over 50 years from when that name was widely known 🥴

CHEAP! I was paying that for a one-bedroom apartment (680 sq. ft.) in the low-cost area of the city... OVER A DECADE AGO! I once looked into prices for newer apartments -- and found they wanted closer to $2000 for 1BR (600 sq.ft.!). For what I paid in rent over 30 years, I should have owned the apartment!

FYI: Bacchus is a Roman name -- Dionysus is likely the Greek match, since the rest of the names you listed appear fully Greek pantheon.

You'll still going to have to put up with untrained animals unless you are, yourself, buying them from a breeder after they reach training age... And what level of training are we talking about? The little on horse training in the books reads like "breaking a mustang by cowboys" given the short duration required. Warhorse? (granted, not to the level of late medieval/renaissance/mid-1800s level*) should take a lot longer, and likely with older /mature/ horses, not juveniles. * Most of those skills are retained by the Austrian Riding School Lipizzaners. The school obtains FOUR YEAR OLD stallions from breeders, and takes SIX YEARS to train them -- they basically don't perform until they are past ten years of age, and then work into their twenties. longe lead training in a ring to learn basic walk/trot/canter voice commands training with reins, trainer walking behind, to learn rein signals for left/right/start/go commands training with empty saddle, followed by adding weights (still no actual rider) training with rider, and at some point the double-bit (and so far it has all be BASIC training) training on-the-fly lead changes (canter/gallop have notable "lead": one front foot moving backwards while other three move forward, lead change requires animal to go from, say, single right front to single left front without coming to a complete stop) while we've no doubt seen rearing horses in reruns of Zorro or Lone Ranger, those of basically straight up, skeletal structure of hind legs supporting the weight. The school teaches low rears, where the horse is nearly sitting on the ground -- these require the muscular system to support the weight. This position leads to training a front hoof attack, as it places the front around head height of infantry, or hip height of an opposing rider. vertical jump with all legs tucked under/protecting the belly -- possibly useful against charging infantry (who may get trampled when the horse returns to ground) vertical jump with a rearward kick at the peak -- again putting hooves at head height of ground troops Probably some time spent in rudimentary jumping over fences/hedges/etc. It is possible that the trainer then becomes the permanent rider for that horse...

Performer was probably a Eurmaly hauling around a "one-man band" rig (drum, harp/lyre, and a woodwind 🧐 )

So who's going to be the first Gloranthan to perform the equivalent of 4'33" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4′33″