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  1. Hyalor is a very basic cult, in my opinion. It teaches the Ride (Horse) skill and Command Horse spell. You might want to give it some extra minor spells if you want it to be a more powerful cult. In my Hero Wars Cult Conversion, Beren has some nifty spells for riding, instead of Hyalor.
  2. The Wedding of Pavis is tricky to date, as it didn't happen! However, I would say that it would have been planned for 1623 or 1624. Harrek defeats the Lunars at Pennel Ford and then they are concentrating on the Temple of the Reaching Moon, so would be focused on that. Maybe it should be on the Seven Mothers' High Holy Day, Godday of Disorder week in Dark Season. I think I based those on fitting in the events with other scenarios that were dated but happened after that. That makes a lot of sense, so Godday of Disorder week in Dark Season 1623 might be a good date. Of course, the Adventurers should disrupt it before it happens, or could support it and stop pesky Adventurers from disrupting it.
  3. Don't forget that Priestesses of the Seven Mothers can use Chaos Gift that can leave them with a Chaos taint, unless they are Illuminated. So, does the proportion of Priestesses using Chaos Gift increase? In my view, most of the people in the Lunar Empire didn't take on Chaos Powers, in the same way that most people in the Golden Empire didn't take on Chaotic Powers. However, the severity of the attacks by their enemies, first Argrath, then Sheng Seleris, then Argrath again, forced some of the rulers and their companions/households to turn to more extreme powers. Some certainly did, as evidenced in King of Sartar, but I believe that most didn't. I have the same misgivings as Nick does regarding the "Death to all Chaos" camp. It is, but Peloria had the Empty Emperor, or was it the Shadow Emperor, so the precedent was already there. The Monster Emperor simply took its place. Argrath's Temple of the Reaching Storm probably used refugees from the Lunar Empire. He had already conquered Yara Aranis, as she was used to drag Sheng Seleris back to Hell. I do like the idea, as it is just an expression of the fact that Glorantha repeats itself in various ways. Sure, the Monster Emperor has little relationship with the Red Emperor or Sheng Seleris, as the Monster Empire arises after their deaths. Using my Hero Wars Timeline, the Red Emperor dies in 1680, Sheng Seleris dies in 1708, the Red Moon is torn down in 1725. So, the Monster Empire exists between 1708 and 1725, only lasting 17 years, and was formed only 28 years after the Red Emperor was killed. Of course, there are discrepancies, as Queen Inkarne reigned from 1743-1843 and was queen during the Monster Time, but that is after Argrath was apotheosised. I agree that the Hero Wars broke Glorantha again, allowing Chaos back in. Yes, that sums it up. That also applied to the people of the Golden Empire, which is why I see parallels.
  4. Perhaps, in a way. Rashoran was the original source of Illumnination, but he was killed in the Gods War. Osentalka, the Perfect One, might have been Rashoran Reborn. In any case, he was the new source of Illumination, in the same way that the Red Goddess is the new source of Illumination.
  5. Professional intermediaries such as Heralds. Sure, if you have a hard belief that hiring Chaos is Chaotic then all of your statements apply. Orlanthi probably wouldn't do this, for sure. However, I don't think that Praxians have the same concept of Secret Murder being a taboo. I am looking at it from the viewpoint of the Nomad Gods game explicitly saying that Praxians routinely hire Broo, and other Chaotic mercenaries, and suggesting reasons why they might. Your view, that Praxians would never hire Chaotic mercenaries, is an opposing view that is fine for Glorantha but does not agree with sources.
  6. You send an intermediary, you don't deal with the Broos yourself. Also, disease-ridden and murderous is fine when they are attacking your enemies. They get hired because they are tough and brutal. Also, because they might get killed in the battle. You are not fraternising with them. You do not fight beside them. You send instructions as to where they will attack and they attack.
  7. For me, a stolen kiss should not mean leaving the Voria cult, so in my game, nothing would come of that event. However, if the kiss was part of an ongoing courtship then the logical outcome of a successful courtship would be to join the Ernalda cult, or to choose a different cult. If the relationship became sexual then Voria would not be an option. Even in that case, Babeester Gor would not be involved, as this is a natural progression of Voria members.
  8. Maybe the Storm Buller sees them as a foe and attacks them. Although, I like David's idea that the Healer enrages the Storm Buller even more, driving them into a frenzy.
  9. I suspect hiring broos as mercenaries is an extremely stupid thing to do unless they are extremely cheap to hire. Yet it happens
  10. They could, but they often hire out as mercenaries, so this is unlikely. They could, but as mercenaries they are unlikely to do that. That is more likely, especially if they are contracted for one battle, once the battle is over their contract is over and they can do whatever they like.
  11. soltakss

    Camels

    This is for Mythras, but it should be easy to convert back to RuneQuest.
  12. That could work. Let us know how it worked out in gameplay. The more powerful the Rune the closer you are to it, so if the Chaos Rune increases in value the more Chaotic you are. That really depends on the Player and the GM. In our old RQ2 Campaign, Pektok, a Duck Humakti, gained +2D6 STR via a Chaos Feature unknowingly gained, so he trained his CON up to his STR, then he found out that it was Chaotic and got rid of it, then trained his STR up to Species Maximum. As he was a no nonsense Humakti, being Chaotic made no difference to how he behaved or what he did. Other Adventurers may behave differently. They might meet with Chaos Creatures and get to understand their viewpoints and join them, One of my joys, as a GM, is to slowly corrupt Adventurers, giving them little steps along the way to corruption, so that each step seems a logical and reasonable thing to do, until it is too late twenty steps down the road.
  13. Some people's heads explode.
  14. It is more likely to be an in-joke regarding how awful people are at naming their PCs.
  15. It really does depend. Ideally, the deities should match the Companions, wherever possible. However, if they differ then nothing really matters unless the Companions use magic that the original deities don't have. Quite often that doesn't matter but sometimes it does. There are broadly two ways this could happen: The worshipper of the enemy deity can be doing this openly or in secret. If they worship openly then the HeroQuestors probably know about it and can cope with it, an example is of a worshipper of Zorak Zoran who plays a Storm Bull role, that is acceptable as Zorak Zoran and Storm Bull are both Berserking deities. The other way is if the worshipper keeps it secret and deliberately sabotages the HeroQuest, so a Zorak Zorani might be an initiate of Storm Bull as well, might go on a HeroQuest playing Storm Bull and, at a certain point, might attack the lead HeroQuestor. That would be bad and would affect the outcome of the HeroQuest. The HeroQuestor does not have to identify who they are. In the case of a Lunar going on a Lightbringer Quest, they could be playing Lhankor Mhy or Issaries, for example, using their Irrippi Ontor or Etyries knowledge. They could choose to betray the HeroQuest at some point, or do something unexpected. This probably won't end the HeroQuest but might open up new possibilities.
  16. Not my style really. However, there is a precedent. Some say the Dragonewts engineered the events leading to the Dragonkill in order to get enough people present for the Dragons to participate. So, getting enough people present to act as a huge sacrifice makes some sense.
  17. Here is a quick, and often accurate, trick: Take your skill and divide by ten, knocking off the last digit Double it for a Special Halve it for a Critical It works for most instances, unless you roll within 1 or 2 of the calculated result, but in that case I'd just use the calculation as it is easier. So, in your example of 50% skill, dividing it by ten gives you 5, knocking off the last digit of 0, doubling it gives a Special chance of 10 and halving it gives a Critical chance of 2.5 that rounds to 3. With the Difficult Drive, your skill is 25, so dividing by 10 gives you 2, doubled to 4 and halved to 1. If you want to be more exact, dividing by 10 gives you 2.5, doubled to 5 and halved to 1..25 that becomes 1.
  18. Thed: Revered ancestress, or the cause of all Broo problems
  19. Given that pretty much every Praxian major deity hates chaos passionately, I don't see how their followers can ever justify allying with broos, or scorpionmen, or any chaos creatures. I strongly doubt there are enough illuminated Chieftains to make this even remotely plausible, plus how likely is it that they will be overthrown on the spot, murdered by Stormbulls and then the whole clan goes on an anti-chaos rampage against their new "allie"? I think such Praxian/Chaotic alliances would need to be highly covert at best. It is simple, really. You ally with Broos and send them against your enemies. In the battle many Broos die and many of your enemies die. That is a win-win situation, as broos die and your enemies die.
  20. The players discounted that immediately, as they didn't want to give Genert a Chaos Taint. Yes there was. It was something that the Adventurers justified very quickly, as being for the Greater Good. Whatever works at your gaming table.
  21. The easiest reply is Are cows (or other herd animals) able to be taught to play simple musical interments? 🙂 They can ring bells. They could bang drums and shake things, if trained, I suppose. It probably wouldn't sound great though.
  22. The way I do it is: If you want to buy something that is available at your Wealth Level or below then you can always buy it without a roll. If you want to buy something that is available at your Wealth Level or below then you can buy it if you make a Status roll (You might get a penalty to the roll if the object being bought is way over your Wealth Level). If you want credit, or want to extend credit, then make a Status roll And that's about it, really. Some people try to abuse it by buying lost of things, I'd either allow it or make a Status roll to see if their funds have dried up.
  23. I am not sure about RQ1, but RQ2 definitely had Lay Members in Cults of Prax.
  24. For me, broadly the same rites are used to become Clan Chieftain as Tribal King. Each tribe or clan would have its own version of the crown test, in my opinion. Remember the sorry tale of the contender for Clan Chieftain who had to swim across a river, climb to a cave, wrestle the bear within, climb down and make love to the previous clan chieftain's daughter, after swimming the river and climbing to the cave, he went in and all everyone heard was snarling, growling and the sounds of a great struggle, then he emerged from the cave, climbed down and asked "So where is this woman I need to wrestle?"
  25. I had it in a Short World in the Wastes, in an Oasis that was hidden by a permanent sandstorm.
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