Agentorange

Besides Yinkin are there any named or detailed ?

I dare say Chaosium will be posting something official but I've just seen over on Facebook that Jennell Jaquays has passed away. A talent in the early days of RPG's and RQ especially, writing some seminal products. Hellpits of Nightfang was I think the first RQ product I bought and I still have my original copy purchased all the way back from 1981. I know time marches on and we all get old etc etc but I find myself strangely saddened by this.

Which leads us neatly to........

And a merry Christmas to you and to all who sail in the good ship HMS BRP Central. have a great one everybody !

Interesting - especially when you consider in Glorantha there's a variety of Enchant ( metal ) rituals to allow your copper ( or whatever ! ) axe to have the strength and durability of bronze.

Mmmm.......at the risk of extreme pedantry, if you pick up a pot of boiling oil and hurl it at someone with the intention of causing them harm then it's a weapon because that's what you've intended it to be. A weapon is whatever you happen to use as a ....weapon.

The Gloranthan bestiary page 85 says of wolf brothers "...Only enchanted rune metals can harm them as well as magic. thus they will be fully affected by a Fireblade put on a Bronze weapon. " But....both RQG core rules p262 and the RBOM say of fireblade "this damage cannot be magically resisted because it is real physical damage from the heat of the fire" In other words the damage is NOT magical but just physical damage. So shouldn't wolf brothers be unaffected by Fireblade ?

“We have long ago paid the goblins of Moria,” said Thorin; “we must give a thought to the Necromancer.” Sorry, drifted off into the wrong fantasy world there..........

"With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the glowing Glamour towers down Helpless people on a farmyard wain Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them He picks up a chariot and he throws it back down As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town......" With apologies to Blue Oyster Cult

pretty much what it says really. the oasis of prax and the wastes are the last remaining fertile places in those locations - they DO have trees. So are they big enough and fertile enough to have Dryads ?

We seem to have lost the picture - did someone take it down ?

On the other hand...Lions of Yelm ( yelmalions ) does have a dignified regal ring to it......

I'm going left field with this and offering Pavisians, because...... Paris - Parisians Pavis - Pavisians

The true horror of the Lunar contamination by Chaos is revealed. Here we see the Red Goddess presiding over the filth that gnaws at the heart of the world. EDIT: has someone taken the picture down ? I certainly didn't

Feed me Seymour....feed me now !

There must be some kind of chaotic jack o bear connection ...........

I just feel there's a scenario/heroquest/gloranthan story in here somewhere.............😁 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-67188609

a few days ago i posted some questions around spirit societies and there was a ( surprisingly ) brief discussion around the societies, overlapping Rune Pools etc etc. Which got me thinking do the various Spirits in the spirit scoiety see themselves as a society or group ?. I know not all spirits have INT but I tend to think of the ones involved in spirit societies as having it especially if they're hero cults etc. So do the spirits see themselves a group of allies/fellow travellers/entities with something in common or common aims.... Or is that purely how Shaman perceive them ?

There's a Duck criminal gang called the Beaky Blinders....maybe that's what you're thinking of ? 😁

I'd imagine you could certainly have a situation where spirits whose natures would seem contradictory - Light and Dark might have a history of cooperation against a common enemy eg : chaos ?

Over at the RQ facebook page I asked David Cake what he thought the difference between these was and he provided a very well thought out response - which for some weird Facebook reason i can no longer see 🙁 So if he's reading this - please do post it here. But it got me thinking. I'm assuming it's possible for a shaman to belong to multiple spirit societies ? What happens if there are antagonistic spirits in two different societies ? So Agentorange the shaman belongs to the Thirstless spirit society - a collection of water based spirits in and around prax and the Zola fel valley ( see the Prax thread in the link ). he has a single Rune Pool that he uses to access their Rune magic. But........he also belongs to a Spirit Society called the Zola Fellows ( which i just made up ) which consists of Spirit Cults located within the Zola Fel valley, some are water spirits, some aren't but they all reside in the ZF valley. Now, what happens if one of the spirits in the Zola fellows is hostile or antagonistic towards one of the spirits in The Thirstless ? Would Agentorange the shaman be unable to be a member of both societies ? What if he was a member of both societies but never actually worshipped one of the mutually hostile pair of spirits ? Which brings me on to my next question. Could a spirit belong to or be worshipped in more than one society. For example imagine a spirit called Sturgeon Boy - grants the Rune spell Transform to Sturgeon and can be contacted somewhere near the mouth of the Zola Fel river near Corflu. he is considered to be part of the Zola Fellows spirit society. However other shamans living on the coast of Genertela also know of his existence and worship him as part of the Fish Boys of Genertela spirit society ( which also include Sea Bass Boy, Mudhopper Boy, Cod and Chips Boy** and so on ) The coastal shaman know nothing of the rest of the Zola Fellows. is this situation something that could happen. ** Cod and Chips Boy does actually have a ritual rune spell which I've written up 😃 Link to the prax thread https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/4533-the-praxian-tradition/

The idea of Ceremonial magic and Ritual magic being categories in their own right wasa nice and welcome touch as well. Though we do see that in RQG terms as well.

It was more the notion of it I liked rather than the implementation. Not quite sure how I would have done it. Maybe rather than fiddly fatigue points I'd have gone for 3 or 4 levels ? bags of energy rested winded exhausted