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Baron Wulfraed

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  1. For the /original/ Blue Star mages, check Amazon for collection(s) of MZB's Lythande stories; DaveCake's take appears to have been to assign them a Lunar society role.
  2. Looks like a blue-star mage from MZB's Lythande stories. (Originally created for the Thieves' World series, then morphed into a bit of dimension jumping traveller as MZB separated Lythande from Thieves' World).
  3. Well of Daliath (sp?) https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-qa-by-chapter/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-chapter-07-skills/#ib-toc-anchor-36
  4. My view is that, even if not actively working in one's parent's occupation (ie: pre-char gen process of age determination) one has still been exposed to the tools and activities of that occupation. For a farmer, that could mean given tasks like sharpening the edges of hoes and sickles, maybe even being allowed to practice in a small corner of the field. So, once the age experience comes into play, that prior exposure may count to gain the skills for the year /at the start/. Switching occupation means an equivalent of boot camp -- any experience would be credited at the end of the year (or the start of the /following/ year to put it into alignment with when I'd credit experience for staying with the parent's occupation).
  5. Not needed. While spoken language translation runs at 50% of own language skill, they both use the same Theyalan scripts: page 181 of RQ:RiG I had a somewhat long thread about a year ago where it was clarified (?) that (while the book uses the term "syllabary" for the script forms) the scripts behaved more like Chinese logograms, wherein both Cantonese and Mandarin speakers could read the same logograms with the same meanings. (Japanese Katakana & Hirigana are syllabary, where each glyph represents a, well, syllable in the language -- so the written languages could be "sounded" phonetically, but not understood). This meant that, for example, an Esrolian scribe could take dictation from a non-read/write Esrolian, give the scroll to a Heortling scribe, and that scribe to read the script to some non-read/write Heortling personage, with no 50% penalty.
  6. RQ3 Players Book, page 26 Experience by Occupation (emphasis mine) There is an optional rule allowing for occupation change -- but it has the cost that the character must stay in that new occupation for a year before gaining the experience points (If I were GM, that would mean NO experience gained in the first year -- so essentially a lost year of experience).
  7. For ship pumps, it may be bulky but an Archimedes screw design could be viable. On another thought -- if one boils water it turns to steam... Is steam considered a gas (air)? Is boiling a form of transmutation?
  8. As I look at it: RQ2 -> basically one starts as village brats old enough to be allowed out of the village on their own, armed with tree branches (club/mace) and armored in the equivalent of a poncho cut from heavy carpeting. Basic skills. (the supplemental "Prior Experience" tended to be too granular to apply -- 10 year periods as I recall) RQ3 -> one starts a few years older (die roll) than RQ2, and for each year gains experience in their parent's occupation -- before going forth on their own, and maybe changing occupation RQ:RiG -> one starts well seasoned, with experience in /their/ chosen/rolled occupation, which may not be their parent's occupation, along with cult skills. In one aspect RQ:RiG has characters starting at levels, where in my RQ2 days, was when we "retired" them from active play (Cults of Prax had both Rune Lord and Priest for Humakt -- my character /bought/ a priesthood; money donated to the cult adjusted the %age needed to impress the examiners, and I [character] donated enough to bring my chances to 95% [why donate more when 96+% is a failure; still had one character fail, and had to try again the "next year" with another massive donation] -- after which the character went "retired")
  9. It's not air, it's ether 😱 And I don't mean the stuff one sprays into air intakes to get an engine to start.
  10. Well, it was a deliberate "seduction" by Loki that resulted in Sleipnir. Haven't studied the lore enough to know what led to Fenrir...
  11. I may need to do a "storage run"... I have "The Armourer and his Craft" on my bookshelves, but apparently my castle books have been left in storage https://www.amazon.com/Castles-Their-Construction-History-Architecture/dp/0486248984/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3FCN0U1YP7GTG&keywords=castle+construction&qid=1664592887&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjgyIiwicXNhIjoiMS43MyIsInFzcCI6IjEuMjUifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=castle+const%2Cstripbooks%2C121&sr=1-2 https://www.amazon.com/Castle-David-Macaulay/dp/0395329205/ref=sr_1_8?crid=3FCN0U1YP7GTG&keywords=castle+construction&qid=1664592991&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjgyIiwicXNhIjoiMS43MyIsInFzcCI6IjEuMjUifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=castle+const%2Cstripbooks%2C121&sr=1-8 Granted -- medieval, not something like Masada...
  12. Just follow the yellow brick road...
  13. 200L => 10W I always associate them as 10C (US Dime) => 1L (US Dollar); 20L => 1W (old US DOUBLE Eagle)
  14. Given how small the base model is, a giant tardigrade would be the size of an ant...
  15. I haven't been as active as I was 20-30 years ago, but I can feel your condition. At one of the niece's weddings, I actually had a higher grade camera and flashes than the "hired photographer" (EOS 40D, the "prosumer" level, pro models have single digits; the hired photographer was using an EOS Rebel, low-end consumer camera). I think the family used my prints (assuming they finally received the "pro" prints -- I believe there was at least a long delay before the hired photographer actually produced even proofs).
  16. While I can't recommend the SyFy minseries* based on The Earthsea Trilogy, the third book (The Farthest Shore) might be inspiration for a Heroquest (considering the two main characters have to cross into the realm of death, and have to traverse it to come out the other side). Of course the equivalents of Orm Embar and Kalessin are most likely dream dragons of somewhat beneficial bent. Not sure if Ged's conflict with the Gebbeth (?) would count for a Heroquest. Of course, modifying stories focused upon a single character for use with a party of PCs may be the killer. * SyFy had whites playing the main Earthsea characters-- when they are dark skinned in the books (though perhaps more in a Polynesian bent than African), and it is peoples of the northeast islands (Karg?) who are white https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karg Hmmm, the Ghibli animated appears to be just as bad...
  17. There's a book series? Most of my reading material these days come from FiMFiction... I'm pretty certain Twilight never traveled to London (don't think Equestria /has/ a London - but pretty sure they have a Buckingham Palace somewhere...)
  18. A bit off-topic, but does anyone have any idea why I keep reading that as "Reivers of London"?
  19. I'd interpret it to mean the same period/intensity as in healing, but instead causing that amount of damage.
  20. Ever seen the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo? Or the hoorah from Diana's wedding? I'm sure they are looking at ways to out do either of those events.
  21. Per your own link, Stonehenge identified the lowest point of the sun in winter (~Dec 22 -- longest night), and the highest point of the sun in summer (~June 22 -- longest day). The "turn-around" points -- the sun is has started returning to us (we won't be lost in perpetual darkness), and the sun has started leaving us (we need to prepare for the return of darkness). Nothing related to determining spring (or fall) themselves. I don't believe they had any means of determining the equinoxes except by counting days between the solstices. And then there is the matter of just when the seasons start! Modern usage tends assign the solstices and equinoxes as the starting date for the following season (which may account for "seasonal lag" in the weather -- warmest days in late July/August, etc.), but the ancients may have centered the seasons on the solstices/equinoxes. That makes Samhain closer to the start of winter, and (our) groundhog day closer to the end of winter (and hence the compromise: a prediction of 6 more weeks of winter basically puts the end of winter near the equinox, vs the "early spring" straddling the equinox)
  22. But then you still have to explain the tail... On that thought -- Beavers would rapidly go extinct (can you visualize Aldryami putting up with a creature the cuts down living trees just to create a water hazard 🧐 ; okay, they probably aren't happy with any tree harvesting, but humans can be negotiated with -- but what about a Beaver that decides some dryad's tree is the ideal base for a new dam?) In Glorantha, jackals would compete with coyotes; whereas on Earth the domains are widely separated. Now... Do we have prairie dogs, or meerkats? ("Meerkat, meet Coyote. Coyote, Meerkat") Glorantha needs Raccoons! Over-strength for apparent body size, manipulative hands letting them get into places they aren't meant... ("Who stole the sacred dagger from the shrine!"). Lots of opportunity for "non-quest" quests, or side-quests...
  23. In my experience, the most complex math in RQ is the critical/special/normal/fail/fumble % -- and that is in an easily printed tabular format that could be provided to the players. Now, if the players can't manage simple addition of damage dice, that is a different matter -- blame the school system 🧐
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