David Scott

Played and GMed it. If you have a set of RQ3, just use that. Otherwise use BRP & The Magic Book: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/82071/The-Magic-Book (which has the all RQ3 magic and is still available see https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/role-playing/systems-versions/ for the relationship.).

They don't have Sanctify (RBM 76) - which creates an area that can be used temporarily as a temple. Initiates will need to return to their Ring leader's refuge - as The temple is both a worship site and a refuge (LB 115). Lanbril is a criminal ring, not a cult for solo thieves. And Dismiss Magic, Divination, Extension, Find Enemy, Heal Wound, Multispell, Spirit Block, and Warding. Plus Dismiss Elemental (specific type, small or medium) and Divination Block. (per LB 115). Dismiss elemental is very handy when you realise that the Pavis cult in Pavis (the centre of a large Lanbril cult) can summon elementals. Elementals are very useful for guarding things. Put an elemental into a binding enchantment on a chest, add the condition of if not opened by the caster - release the elemental. They will need to ingratiate themselves with the local ringleader. I'd use the lay member interview (LB 112) and CHA x 5 plus their reputation. Don't make it harder for the player than it need be.

The use of hunting dogs isn't widespread amongst the Praxians (per my discussion with Greg): I include them now only as it's an adventurer option for RQG. It allows adventures to have a dog. There are usually (in this case one) a few individuals that breed dogs for this kind of use. When this came up in my Balazar campaign, so I created a Dog Mother - https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/6315-starting-runes/#comment-89865

Does the members podcast ever make it to the usual one?

If a player wanted to play a men-and-a-half (per RQB 75) and chose the Hunter occupation, I'd let them have a hunting animal (typically a shadowcat or dog) per the occupation (RQG 69). I'd let them have a dog or another animal - maybe a even a baboon (normal), monkey or hawk, but not a shadowcat as they are Sartar and Hendrikiland specific (RQB 144). The men-and-a-half have been in Prax and the Wastes since before the Dawn, and their hunters have been in contact with those of the other tribes (per Organization LB 88), they hunt the same animals, and occasionally participate in the same Great Hunts. I've always imagined that hunting animals are not widespread amongst any of the Praxian hunters, and I apply that to the men-and-a-half too. Note that in the Great Hunt, hunters must hunt alone - so no hunting animals. As for camp dogs, I don't think the men-and-a-half have those, as they are related to Waha (Waha's brother is a dog - RQB 144).

Please re-read the Men-and-a-half section of the RQ Bestiary (pages 48-51), you'll see heir main god is Foundchild, The Basmoli hsunchen of Prax, worship Basmol. Lions are extinct in Prax, so unlike the Telmori, they have no lion companions. Tada skinned Basmol, not Waha. Baboons worship Grandfather Baboon (a mask of Daka Fal). The Monkey King is a spirit cult. The Cannibal Cult doesn't follow the Survival Covenant as they eat sentient creatures. Mostly Ernalda. Eiritha is specifically the mother of herd animals - and is mostly concerned with their care and breeding. Waha show the way of how to live in the wastelands (a culture hero), but there are other who show how to too.

The Dragonrise - Clayday, Harmony week, Earth Season 1625 The Liberation of Boldhome - Clayday, Death week, Earth Season 1625: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/the-liberation-of-boldhome/ The Battle of Dangerford God Day, Movement Week, Earth Season. Kallyr's Short Lightbringer's Quest Sacred time 1625 (two weeks) The second battle of Moonbroth - ambiguous could be 1624 The liberation of Pavis - 1625 The siege lasts a week, followed by the final assault (King of Sartar)

If it works for you, just do it.

I have always assumed that the minor diseases are Darkness Rune based, the major diseases are Death Rune based and only the plague is Chaos Rune based. While my assumptions aren't borne out by RQG anymore (major & minor are Chaos and Darkness based). Plague is only Chaos. While major & minor diseases can be caused by Chaos, they have no taint. Whereas plague is definitely chaotic. I also assume that any spirit in the Dead Place dies within a week as they've nothing to sustain them. Their bodies are the dust and their magic points are very slowly regenerating the place (there are now a few hardy plants).

Here we move into grey area. Chalana Arroy can fight spirits, but will likely have a moral dilemma when in the Dead Place, they are no longer spirits or diseases, The dust or mud may kill them first. If you reach a point where you need to take a possessed person into the dead place, that's a whole adventure in itself.

The situation goes back to how it was pre-1572 - there are now Praxians back on the city council as it was at the time of the city founding. With that, no raiding Pavis county. There are elders alive who can remember when this was the case. Remember New Pavis was only founded in 1550, The failed Praxian revolt was 1572 and Dorosar died in 1579 (see Pavis GTA for the history). New Pavis was founded by Dorosar and the Sables, fisherfolk, Yelmalions and the dwarfs.

Most of the relevant advice is in the two boxes: Welcome home (PP 141) and Growing Up in the Hope (PP 153). For some clan dynamics, I'd first have a look at it's location on the map (number nine), for me that doesn't really give a good feel for it, but look at the most up to date map here, in the top left hand corner south of the city of Bagnot (click to enlarge the map - it's big). I'd then grab one of the clans that Jeff has outlined, like the Varmandi, Ernaldori, or Hiording, and reskin it (or do a mash-up) with the people from the setting. It's got a minor temple of Ernalda, and shrines to the Seven mothers and Orlanth. Make sure you've Anjara and Vila on the ring! (I would personally include Grandpa Uz too) Anla fills the chief position and you're off. The main dynamics are Lunar/Orlanthi/independent. Remember - Because the Hope was founded by a follower of the Red Goddess and an Ernaldan priestess, there is little religious conflict here. That doesn't mean that a cultural dynamic doesn't exist. They are between the major settlements of Bagnot and Shakers Temple, so that will have some effect.

It's reverse Chaos per RQB 94 / RBM 24. The curse is that not all chaos features are positive.

oops! Thanks Joerg, it's been a while since I played - so I got my set out and photographed the correct figure (replaced above)

My favourite Thed representation for dropping on the table during broo heroquest fights is: Not only is it huge, but weird too... (note the snake mouth tale)

The group found last night's dinner at the Fenner's Roadhouse (oh you've a picture of this place), a much more agreeable affair than at Squatter's Lake Motel. For a start the host, Reg served a fine ginger ale! His wife Mar, was much rattier than usual, but he explained that their waitress Lucy, had just receive the terrible news that her boyfriend Charlie, had unexpectedly died of a heart attack. And they were both having to cover her work as she was so upset. Dr. Smyth a colleague of her late boyfriend (professor Charles Leiter), went out back to the office console her (WHAT you've a map of this place too!). Dr. Smyth was able to secure her a visit to the morgue, arranged by her husband Dr. Chester Armwright who works at the hospital), as Miss Stone wished to say goodbye to her dear Charlie. My players are impressed that they found the roadhouse on the map, and that I had a picture of it and an interior map. Question, at the bottom of the Forward on page 9, these's a background image. Is this the Pickering Psychopathic Hospital?

While that is almost certainly true, the table costs give us some guidelines of relative value in the long term. I would suggest that they don't have a sustainable population of zebra (just as other tribes don't maintain other beast types other than their own) and that's the main issue. Depends on occupation, most will just have riding beasts. The Pol-joni have light and heavy cavalry (RQG 72-73), so cavalry beasts. War beasts are likely to be limited to Rune Lords due to time and training constraints - so Wind Khans (Orlanth Adventurous), Storm khans (Storm Bull), Death Khans (Humakt), Khans (Waha) and Light khans (Yelmalio). However adventurers are different, and I'd allow players to upgrade their mounts by paying the difference (cavalry -> war) or swapping out their family heirloom (inherit parents horse) or Random boon (RQG 40).

Given that: There are bound to be a few continents of minor tribes including zebra folk, so yes there are Pol-joni that ride zebras (just not a lot of them). Likewise raiding parties may pick up a few like all other herds. It's also worth noting that riding zebras cost sightly more than a sered (5L), so horses are cheaper.

I like to think that Thed was the mother of Uryarda who escaped the chaos changing effects that altered Thed and her other children, the broos. Uryarda's children are likely Mirapora and Sidar / caroni (or is a mask of them). So Early Thed was likely a daughter of Ernalda or Eiritha (I'm more inclined to say Ernalda), and maybe a daughter of Storm Bull. Thed has now lost all of those connections, just being a chaos spirit, so most people wouldn't think of it.

This should help clarify:

Yes. See the RQ Bestiary. In addition to standard demons, it has nyctalopes, Hollri, and the Crimson Bat. This is with the caveat that The term “demon” encompasses a wide array of Underworld spirits.

We were at Pickering Psychopathic Hospital last night, visiting Cecil Hunter. Dr Ronayne was very helpful in answering the groups questions, while Jacob (our MU Janitor) took some time to visit his old friend and groundskeeper Eric Sykes. Much hilarity ensued when they recalled their youthful mishap with a plank. (It was fantastic to have all the information at my fingertips and a plan of the hospital.) Now I just need an Arkham Deck...

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No. It teaches that Chaos is, in itself, neither evil nor inimical. It makes a person free from automatic fear of Chaos and the obsession to destroy it. (from Cults of Terror and The Lunar Way). One of the special abilities that some illuminates have, is that with a successful illumination skill roll they will not register with Sense Chaos.

Otter refs on the Well of Daliath: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/?s=otter See also Heort and a salmon and otter ghost, page 123, Heortling Mythology. This explains why there are no otters in the Creekstream River or Choralinthor Bay Lutrai is pretty specific to Blood Over Gold (and hasn't appeared anywhere since - so giant intelligent otters is likely the best thing to search for