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On 11/17/2020 at 5:55 PM, Oracle said:

It's also not obscured in my print version of the Gamemaster Adventures book. So I can assume only, that @Bren refers to an older version of the PDF ...

No Bren just messed up the number. I can't even imagine how, but page 38 is the correct page. The object to which I refer is in the gap between the table of Sarra Ya'Qual Hit Locations and the table of its list of weapons on the lower right portion of page 38.

On 11/17/2020 at 12:50 PM, lordabdul said:

For those wondering where Rick pulled this description from, it can be found in the Gloranthan Classics version of Griffin Mountain, p193 (it's a two pages chapter on dragonewt plynths).

Interesting. The original RQ2 version of Griffin Mountain didn't include that section or any dragonewt plynths.

On 11/17/2020 at 12:50 PM, lordabdul said:

It's not obscured by the location table on my PDF.... what are you reading this on? Or is that the physical book?

Also, if you flip back a few pages to p38, bottom left, there's a big drawing of that same plynth.

Doh. You are correct, it's on page 38 in my physical book. The obscured object can be seen to the right of the dragon carved plynth that is on the far left. The second object looks like it is a stone of some kind, but it is mostly covered by the table.

This thread has been very illuminating.

On 11/7/2020 at 4:40 PM, French Desperate WindChild said:

I don't see  "lie" able to change directly a passion or a desire.

For example :

I would not allow "you don't love your partner" but I would allow "your partner was with XXX last night" (even if the victim of "lie" was with her/his partner) Then maybe the victim will lose passion point because wrongly accusing the partner, or killing XXX or something like that.

I would not allow "you, Yelm priest, don't love your god" but allow " Yelm considers you a bad worshipper". Then maybe the desperate priest will decide to retire, or to betray Yelm or to become the best worshipper in the world

When I saw the two examples of what you would allow I thought, yes that sounds exactly like something Coyote said or would say.

On 11/15/2020 at 4:41 AM, Trotsky said:

The tokens are from the Roll 20 marketplace – Jans Token Pack 16 – Ancient Greek Heroes.

I added the runes and a few extra things using photoshop. Septimus was a little trickier - as there was no great sword figures so had to modify that quite a bit.

You did a very nice job on the tatoos. Adding onto a 2D depiction of a curved surface like an arm is maybe a bit beyond my skill.

Thanks for the info. I hadn't even thought to check Roll20 for Ancient tokens (just for D&D and Westerns). I'll give it a look.

I just noticed the illustration in the section labeled Dragonewt Band on page 40* of my Runequest: Gamemaster Adventures book. Part of the drawing is obscured as it runs under a hit location table, but the lower left corner of the page shows what looks one of a pair of "peculiar standing stones which appear mostly to be crude and stylized representations of dragons, wyrms, and an otherwise unknown thing vulgarly called a “frogosaurus”.

* Edit: The illustration is actually on page 38. No idea why I wrote page 40.

A bit of thread necromancy (don't tell Delecti), but I'm surprised there aren't drawings of one or more plinths. Especially given how interesting, weird, colorful, and integral to the Dragon Pass boardgame the dragonewt roads are.

Someone did create miniatures of a plinth and a gateway. Do really appreciate the mini you have to look at both the side and the top down view.

7 hours ago, Jape_Vicho said:

Sorry if this has been asked before, but, where are the player's "figures" (markers maybe? I dont really know how to refer to those in english) from? Made by you maybe? They look terrific and after my experience today in a complex encounter with many enemies and directions, I'm starting to think that I should use maps and markers to help me and the players.

"Token" or "Tokens" is the what I've often seen used. And I agree those are beautiful tokens. Are they available and are there more of them?

8 hours ago, Eff said:

On average, such a clan will produce 3.8 kilotonnes of barley every year, equivalent to 4.7 teracalories, which works out to 15.8 gigacalories per day, which works out to 13,100 kilocalories per person per day, which works out to 9600 kilocalories of surplus per person per day, 7.9 kg of barley per person per day, 2,313 kg per person per year, 2.8 kilotonnes of barley in surplus per year. 102,800 bushels of barley in surplus, per year. 73% of the crop is surplus. 

Presumably some of that theoretical 73% surplus is lost to rodents, insects, spoilage, etc. Exact numbers seem hard to come by, but one article mentioned 10-20% loss post harvest (in modern Africa). That could reduce that 73% surplus to a little over 50%.