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On 7/31/2023 at 4:14 AM, Erol of Backford said:

TotRM 12 p.59 - Curious if you use Raven's Stepladder to get to the Gods World where do you end up if you walk any direction from the orchard. Where are you actually on the Gods Plane, I suppose you could be anywhere but might it place you in or on the edge of a Great-Tree Forest, say at the base of the Spike or would you be maybe is Genert's garden? GtG 02 p.681

If you know the Myth you can walk there, in my opinion. That means that people who know lots of myths are more powerful HeroQuestors.

So, you could put it in Prax and travel to Genert's Garden and the nearby places, or could put it in an Aldryami Forest and access the forest in the God Time.

On 7/31/2023 at 4:14 AM, Erol of Backford said:

Did Aldrya’s tree at the top of the spike die when the spike exploded? GtG 02 p.680

Yes, I think it did. Everything within and on the Spike died, except for a few lucky survivors.

On 8/1/2023 at 1:25 PM, ChrisWentWhere said:

Could a Daka Fal initiate use Command (Cult Spirit) in this situation or would that only work with a Cult Spirit of their own ancestor tradition?    

If the spirit is one of their own family then sure, that's what it is for.

However, if the spirit is from a different family it gets more complicated. In theory, an ancestor is an ancestor, whether it is your ancestor or not. An example of this is in RQ2 Cults of Prax where Bituran Varosh trades for Summon Ancestor with some Baboons, clearly they are not his relatives and their ancestors are not his ancestors, but he can use the spell to summon his ancestors. That implies that Command Cult Spirit works on other people's ancestors.

So, I would probably say that it works if the Player can justify it well enough.

RQ3 has bigger, more stackable spells, such as Slash, Crush, Bladesharp, Bludgeon, and so on, so is deadlier than RQ2.

RQ3 also has various enchantments that give better armour, general hit points and hit points per location, which makes Adventurers tougher and harder to kill, which makes RQ3 less deadly than RQ2.

RQ2 has stackable Divine Intervention that makes it easier for Priests to come back, but that is probably a minor consideration.

RQ2 had Shield as Common Magic, so everyone had access to Shield. This is not the case for RQ3 and RQG, so RQ3 and RQG are deadlier than RQ2.

RQG has the same spells as RQ3, by and large, and does not restrict them to 4 points like RQ2 did, so RQG is probably deadlier than RQ2, it also allows Adventurers to learn a single Runespell and cast it in larger doses, so is deadlier than RQ2 or RQ3. As there are more offensive spells than defensive ones, and not everyone has access to Shield, RQG is deadlier than RQ2 or RQ3.

For starting characters, RQ2 starts with much lower skills and magic than RQ3, but even RQ3 starts with much lower skills and magic than RQG, so RQG Adventurers are more powerful. However, RQG NPCS are also more powerful so that might cancel out.

On 8/4/2023 at 7:54 AM, hkokko said:

Now that my players have reached a large city which has a bigger Chalana Arroy temple I would like to engage the thinking power of the tribe:

What have you used as approaches for deciding how the character can gain access to the priestess who could regrow the limb. 

I would like it to not be automatic in the fashion of return to city, go to Chalana Arroy temple, give money, limb is back. 

My view is that GMs should only restrict this if they want to mess with their Players.

Regrow Limb is a spell that many Chalana Arroy cultists take, it doesn't have to be a Priestess. I imagine that many Chalana Arroy Initiates take Regrow Limb and use their Rune Points as specialised healers for that purpose. If you have a hundred Initiates in a Temple and three Priestesses, the Initiates could cast regrow Limb hundreds of times without even asking a priestess.

17 hours ago, Malin said:

What kind of unwritten rules/common courtesy is there about publishing things through the Johnstown compendium when it comes to things set in the same setting as other supplements?

Don't wholesale copy things from other supplements?

That's about all I can think of.

Nick recently clarified, and again in this thread, that people can use elements of any Chaosium RuneQuest publication in any Jonstown Compendium supplement, which includes any Jonstown Compendium supplement. So, someone could use a monster from Monster of the Month, for example, or could mention the Spiderlings from Spider Woods. It might be worth referencing them in the Credits section, perhaps, as a courtesy.

Personally, I would love other people to write about Dorastor, or HeroQuesting, as they are areas that need multiple authors.

As for Sun County, there is a lot of it and I can see benefits of a campaign pack set there, so it would be good to see your material published.

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Can a Humakti and a Lanbril ever be mates?

Of course they can.

Religious differences can add spice to a friendship, but don't mean that Humakti and Lanbrili can never be friends.

Sure, the Humakti will probably chide the Lanbrili and tell them not to steal but may well just sigh when the Lanbrili does steal.

I don't like religious dogmatism. There are lots of examples in the real world where people of diametrically opposed religions were friends. They just agreed to disagree.

In my last Gloranthan Campaign as a GM, we had Sense Genert which was really Sense Earth Deity, as it was morphed to detect bits of Tada as well.

I have no problem with Sense (Whatever) being gained as a HeroQuest ability, so Sense Darkness for Yelmalians and so on.

2 hours ago, gevrin said:

If the combat skill button rolls a critical, the attackweapons button that rolls damage doesn't reflect this. There's no link between the two.

I haven't seen that before, normally a Critical gives a high damage roll.

6 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Likely this question should be somewhere else but what happens to Ironbreaker after Oddi uses it the last time?

In theory, it would pass to Oddi's heir.

However, it might be lost, or picked up by somebody else.

On 6/23/2023 at 8:57 AM, StevenGEmsley said:

Any good rules kicking around in any BRP iteration anywhere? Looking for a similar vibe to the classic Exorcist movie (but in late-medieval Europe)

Merrie England: Robyn Hode had them. I treated them as being an opposed contest with the back and forth representing the exorcism from The Exorcist, and others. I am not sure if other people find them to be good, but they worked for me.

5 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

I am only a 1/3 of the way through Secrets of Heroquesting but its helping a whole bunch in my getting more comfortable with outlining Hero Quests.

That was why I wrote it in the first place, to get people more comfortable with HeroQuesting, so I am glad that it helped.

5 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Thank you again Soltakss.

You're welcome.

On 6/24/2023 at 9:51 AM, David Scott said:

I'd be interested to hear of anyone else who has had a problem with this at their table.

No, we have never had any issues at the table, and our group had some maths-averse players.

On 6/28/2023 at 8:20 AM, Akhôrahil said:

On 6/28/2023 at 2:32 AM, jajagappa said:

Yes, he can pass the 10 tests to become Emperor.

Did he actually do it (or even try) though, in either of his runs? I don’t question that he could have (it’s such a coincidence that the guy with the biggest army always turns out to be the True Emperor, isn’t it?), but did he bother?

I don't think that he bothered, but his nephews did and were ambushed by the Red Emperor dressed in fish scales, as Basko, and he killed them, I think, unless I am mixing HeroQuests.

On 6/30/2023 at 11:14 PM, hipsterinspace said:

Per this post from David Scott:

“A spirit society is a collection of spirit cults that are culturally shared. Your rune points go into a shared pool, but you still have to ally each spirit individually.”

It seems straightforward enough to me.

Yes, that is exactly how I play it.

On 6/30/2023 at 12:49 AM, Godlearner said:

A shaman and his followers may be worshiping multiple spirits. If these spirits grant Rune magic how do the are these pools reagianed? Would they have to have individual Worship <spirit> skills? Seems excessive.  Can they also know their CHA worth of Rune magic from each spirit?

I play that Shamans can belong to a Spirit Tradition that allows them to pool their spirits together. So, a Shaman belonging to the Blue Pool Spirit Tradition could gain spells from Frog Woman, Bluegloom, or River Horse, as they are water spirits, but Blue Pool Rune Points can be used to cast any of the spells of the Spirit Lords in that tradition.

I don't think it is dishonourable, as you are simple uncovering the truth. If you are tricking them into telling the truth then it might be seen as being dishonourable, but it really depends on the circumstances.

For me, Gloranthans do things for other reasons than purely religious. However, religion does impact on may things. So, people will make nice things, decorate items, learn to dance and so on. A Dancer could be an entertainer, a temple dancer, or just dance for fun. Similarly, a singer could sing for their supper, sing work songs to help the day pass by, sing to woo, sing in temples and much more. I think that people have hobbies, and why shouldn't they>?

So, people are the same as us, as people are people. However, there are things to consider. Daily life can be a grind, for example people toiling in the field will spend most of their days working so won't have much time for anything else, but they could make time for certain things. So, they might make coming of age tunics for their children, so they can be seen to be lovely.

On 6/27/2023 at 12:46 PM, Erol of Backford said:

Not actually eating but the act then? I am sure I was reading that you become tainted by doing chaotic things like eating human flesh.

Some people believe that, personally I am not a fan of the idea and it doesn't happen in my Glorantha.

On 6/27/2023 at 12:46 PM, Erol of Backford said:

The related item to this thread for me was why not feed the Black Horses broo and other chaos tainted beings since they are demonic and would not become tainted?

Many creatures won't eat chaos creatures, for fear that it could taint them. I am not sure that this applies to demons from Hell.

On 6/27/2023 at 12:46 PM, Erol of Backford said:

But wait, there are chaos demons?

Of course, and they are quite nasty indeed. There were some examples in an old Wyrms Footnotes, I think.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

So reading Mr. Phipp's Secrets of Hero Questing I am inspired to further develop a Hero Quest(s) related to the Sun Wheel Dancers and the Sun Wheel Ruins.

Excellent, my work here is done!

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

It would likely first involve an Exploratory Hero Quest going back to the Sun Wheel - what is the name of the city before it was sacked?

Was it Elempur or something else? Do the Sixfold Wheel Rune or the Eightfold Wheel Rune have to do with the Sun Wheel Ruins?

In a HeroQuest, it doesn't really matter. Unless, of course, you are asking to put it in the HeroQuest.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

How would the Exploratory Hero Quest be developed to know the who, what, where, when, why and how of the Sun Wheel Dancers and the ruins?

You could interact with the myths and thereby find things out about the city. You won't find out minor issues like what the taverns were called, unless you interacted with the myths of the founding of those taverns, but you could get broad-stroke information.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

Would a mirror showing what something was like in the Storm Age show the SunWheel Ruins prior to its demise or did the Sun Wheel establishment not exist yet in the Storm Age? I think it was at the hands of the Orlanthi but not recalling details of it being sacked?

That could work. The Adventurers could also travel through the mirror to those myths and interact with them.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

Did the Sun Wheel Dancers come with Yelm from he returned from Hell?

What are their origins, how did they come to be and where, was Yelm their father?

I'm not sure if anyone knows. 

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

With a PC Sage being at the Sun Wheel Ruins with a whole bunch of Knowledge and Reconstruction spells, better yet a portable Lhankor Mhy shrine the history of the Sun Wheel Dancers could be deciphered. 

That is possible, but it could also send them mad.

I am sure that Lhankor Mhy Libraries give classes on how to use Knowledge and Reconstruction to avoid being sent mad by the knowledge.

On 6/30/2023 at 6:25 PM, Erol of Backford said:

Possibly with spells and an exploratory hero quest or several hero quests the PC's could find and reunite the Dancer's spirits with their bodies?

That is possible, or the Adventurers could bring back a Golden Wheel Dancer, or a Sun Wheel Dancer if they are different. It may, or may not be, intentional or planned.

On 6/28/2023 at 11:46 PM, qazxsw158 said:

What do you beings, particularly mortals who became divine gain from becoming a god. It seems as if you are trapped, lose all your free will and can only interact with the world through your followers by them redoing all the things you already done in the past. 

You live forever, get a place in the God Time and get people to worship you.

In the Hero Wars you can even come back for a bit to mess about and strut your stuff until the world breaks and is put together again.

On 7/1/2023 at 3:08 AM, Hellhound Havoc said:

So recently I read up on why exactly are the Elder Races at war with one another for a thousand years and a half, and... I'm just not entirely sure why. But beyond that, I'm not sure what that adds to the setting. Why can't the Uz just be another kind of "people" who live around, for instance? I feel like it's meant to be taken as a sort of justification for something but idk, fantasy racism never jived well with me.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding something, so here's what I understood from reading a bit on why each of these hate one another.

Other people have given very detailed answers.

Mostal, Aldrya, Kyger Litor and Zorak Zoran did bad things to each other in God Time, so their descendants and followers hate each other. For example, Zorak Zoran arte all of Flamal's Plants once.

In the 16 centuries after God Time ended, the Elder Races have fought and hated each other because of the God Time feuds, with a few notable exceptions, embedding the hate very deeply.

On 6/19/2023 at 9:20 AM, Oleksandr said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports

Can something like that exist in Arthurian Logres?😀

Well, Dover, Sandwich and Romney were Roman ports, so they could well be ports. Hastings is later and and Hythe is even later, but you could have them founded in/by Arthur's time.

On 6/19/2023 at 3:05 AM, John Biles said:

Didn't Darkness break out of Chaos, then we get Water?

Dame Darkness saw that they had created all the Darkness that they could, and was so terrified at the thought that she wet herself, giving birth to the River Styx, the Last Drop of Darkness and the First Drop of Water.

Like Nick, I can only think of the writeup in Pavis.

However, you could male up some HeroQuests, for example How Lanbril Lost His Face (Gain Face of Lanbril or similar abilities), How Lanbril Followed [] (Gain Shadowing or similar), Lanbril Knows the Streets (Gain Streetwise or similar), How Lanbril Stole Voices (Gain Voice Mimicry or similar), How Lanbril Got Away (Gain Foil Restraints or similar), Lanbril and the Shiny Thing (Conceal Item or similar), Nobody Remembers Lanbril (Forget or similar), Lanbril in Mostal's Halls (Various Devices, or gain a new one), or similar HeroQuests. All involve how Lanbril stole something from someone, or how he managed to avoid capture and punishment.

14 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

So, if a BG incorrectly chops up my brother, what should I do?

Appeal to the Temple and see if the Axe Maidens support you. If not, appeal to the Ernalda Temple and see if her Priestesses support you, as Ernalda is Babeester Gor's mother and has some control over her. They may find in your favour and make the offending Babeester Gor cultist serve as your bodyguard for a year, as penance.