David Scott

I'm not familiar with this. What's the reference? Who wrote it? If you do a website and it's a Chaosium scenario , you will need to adhere to this: https://www.chaosium.com/fan-material-policy/.

Me too! I have a reference card to help me sort out other stats:

I lost my Gravitar...

The trees are the plant rune.

It's Clearwine Village just outside the fort on the map. Page 28 "Clearwine Fort: The main settlement of the Colymar tribe and the village of the Ernaldoring clan". He likely casts Axis Mundi - This summoning ritual creates a holy sanctuary 10 meters in radius, use his Man Rune % to resolve the ritual. Exploring the Ruins page 34 has guidelines for loot. No one is very good at this, it just takes longer. Although Vishi Dunn has 50% if you use him.

RQ GM Screen Pack page 15 The best are in KoS 2ed pages 187 (Sartar's Westfaring) & 217 (Leika). Heortling Mythology page 94 - Good King Oskul's Crown Test was killing Bad King Urgrain.

Magic doesn't equal culture. For example the influence of the main storm mountains means that Storm worship will always arise within their influence, even if overcome by a sorcerous culture. I'd have a look at the Guide's population figures, the west is hardly a little part of the World.

in practice players have added between 30 & 60%. I didn't allow it if it was a 0% skill as it's entirely a magical effect. Yes if you succeed in the knowledge roll, then at the end of the spell you rub the check out.

You can boost the Knowledge skill with ritual, but you could increase her chance of casting Logician. Likewise you can't use meditation Demo games last for an hour or two so this is actually a common situation. See page 94 or the updated version in the GM Screen Pack. She's a LM scribe so only three sorcery spells, but has all common Rune spells, plus Analyze Magic, Clairvoyance, and Knowledge.

Not in my experience. Sorala (one of the pregens) has it and I use them when running demo games. Sorala has a 55% chance of casting the spell and as she doesn't have the summon technique it costs double magic points. She has 17 Free Int (3 spells in memory) and 23 Magic Points. Players always bumped their skill to 100% so that they couldn't fail (although 96-00 is always a fail). So the costing for an unknown knowledge skill to 100% is 2mps (spell cost) + Strength 10 (9mps x2) = 18mps = 20mps already. She can increase the duration to 20 mins (+2 mps) if she wants. In this case all her mps for the adventure are gone. Admittedly if she knew the technique, it would only cost 11mps, still nearly half her total gone. What actually happens is that the player normally uses it to boost their cult lore at 35% for particular part of the adventure. Most add about 5 strength levels to get it over 75% so it cost only 12 mps to cast for 5 mins. The real barrier is the no Passion part. Most don't use it as Passions are an instant bonus in stressful rolls and loosing them for 5 mins is often not worth it. Your is very costly even if you know the technique. Shiphandling is a 0% skill, so 2 + 9mps (Strength 10) is the basic magic point cost. I'd not get on a ship with a 5 minute expert, so extending it for the journey is a must. A day is (level 9) is another 8mps and you'd need a high Free Int to accommodate the spell, at least 19... The biggest limitation is that it's an Active spell, so any time extension means you can do little.

While helpful, I always add a page & book reference to help with finding the write-ups. You should consider adding this PDF to the main file section of the site where it will get more exposure. https://basicroleplaying.org/files/ and https://basicroleplaying.org/files/category/52-mongoose-runequest/

The original distribution forbade it. These are small images for the purpose of illustration.

surely Vasana's got to be thinking "Thank Orlanth he's not in our party, he makes my skin crawl with his godless magic".

Greg drew sketched two maps of the City of Wonders (maybe more?) I received them in the early 90s. Both were very different, but both were hex based in their shape. One just a single hexagon, the other six hexagons surrounding central hex. They were part of his Epic system playtest where you got to visit the city of Wonders with Tarkalor. The seven hex map is more complicated. 13 horizontal streets and 13 +/-2 vertical avenues. Many streets are named Hell, Bison, Deer, Horse, Lion, Potters, Sherman, Rory's, Ken, Hal's, also an East and West Boulevard in the centre and Engine wall the most southerly. Avenues are named Gold, Dave, Ray, Tom, Charlie. One of the avenues is street of Wonders with Theatre of Drama, Little Zoo, with a market and fish market at either end. Four diagonal boulevards, converge on the hexagonal towered court (open space) in the centre which has a hexagonal building in the centre. The boulevards are Corn, Skull, Fleet and Sea (magic aqueduct). Other features are The Castle, university, Justice Hill, High appartments, underground temple, sea temple, earth temple, garden, rich market, navy market, guano beach, docks and warehouses, tricksters theatre, bill's bar, garrison. 7 spires is just off the coast. This very clearly a map that has been used and annotated for adventures. The single hex map is made up of slightly more water than land. City blocks are made up of poor, fair and best part of town. Labelled areas are the Sea Bazaar, Sailors Market, Fish Market, Temple to the sea, Warehouses, Imperial Fleet yards, docks and warehouses (walled), separate warehouse district. The water section has undersea triolini structures and an underwater drill field. Rising up from the Triolini area is Seven Spires alongside which the Royal Barge is anchored. The two sea hex corners are water towers which appear to allow sea creatures to use the towers as lookouts as they are filled with water. This to me is clearly the second map. redrawn to be more sensible. I would imagine that any modern version of this would look a bit different, but is more likely to follow the second outline. All of this is moot as Harrek destroyed the City of Wonders, its ruins for ever sealed.

There are "normal" scorpions (creatures of Darkness) in Glorantha as well as bagogi. The references to eggs are all though Gloranthan publications, such as the new RQ bestiary. The Ritual of Rebirth says: I'd say they mature depending on need (they are chaotic) when there are many of them, it's slow maybe full year, when more are needed as short as a season. 13th Age Glorantha has a full adventure against Gagix, Scorpion Queen. A great resource for scorpion men ideas and tactics. Jan Popsil did the art: https://www.deviantart.com/merlkir/art/13thAG-Scorpion-Queen-523531737 https://www.chaosium.com/13th-age-glorantha-pdf/

The new GoG says The Glorantha Sourcebook says:

To give you an idea of the level of detail of Greg's maps here's a well known section: If you were lucky enough visit Chaosium, Greg had the full map of Dragon Pass stuck on the wall (does anyone else have photos?). He used tracing paper to make overlays for clan and tribe boundaries or rivers and streams. But the level of detail is quite crude and if you want more, just make it up yourself. Even the map in the GM Screen pack for defending Apple Lane doesn't show the outlying farms.

Not sure what you mean by a spirit trap as it’s not a term used in the core RQG book. If you mean spirit binding, look at the enchantment section of the Magic chapter (page 249). All of the magic systems use the same approach with the appropriate spells. Sorcery has summon (otherworld being), dominate (discorporate spirit or elemental) and Bind spirit or elemental.

Few of Greg’s maps went to that level of detail. Even the colymar ones went only so far, with the occasional extra detail. All of these are what’s currently available.

Like this one from Sartar Kingdom of Heroes https://www.glorantha.com/docs/sartar-clan-generator/

The OED has the definition that is "of a group or set of people or things with a common feature or features". Things definitely covered aliens in our minds and didn't limit it to just humans. I'm pretty sure this came up at school.

Prisoners that have offensive magic are going to be the most problematic and the ones you get rid of first. I suspect these are also in the least likely to be captured category too. I think it only comes down to a few spells that are problematic, most others can be easily dealt with. For example blade sharp, fireblade, etc are dealt with by not letting them keep their weapons. Befuddle is likely the worst, but dealt with by however never dealing with prisoners alone. If they do use befuddle the other person pummels them, they soon stop. Captured rune levels will be dealt with swiftly, but once their magic is gone they can be overwhelmed. A captured shaman is likely the worst to deal with and only done by fools or the powerful. The two minute timescale of spirit magic is the best limitation. Ignite - keep them out of range of the your buildings (50m). In a world where everyone has magic, everyone will understand how to deal with it. Everything else will be on a case by case basis.

You might want to check out @Ian Cooper's Red Cow Volumes: https://www.chaosium.com/the-coming-storm-hardcover/ https://www.chaosium.com/the-eleven-lights-hardcover/ Although for HQG they have a fully developed clan - the Red Cow, set against the Lunar downfall in Sartar. Then look at this thread:

The great thing about original traveller (1977) is that it had no setting. Book 1 had this excellent section: When we got this we played all manner of creatures. I played a saurian from Poul Anderson's Satan's World. The next version changed it all and reduced a broad background to the Imperium setting and we had to wait for alien stats to appear. Original traveller was a real breakthrough for us (at the time) D&D players.

Let's not forget the H'Reli of Niall Shapero's Other Suns