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Daka Fal is the ancestor of all humans, being Grandfather Mortal's ghost. Flesh Man isn't, as he is a distinct entity. I play that Flesh Man is the owner of ancestor worship amongst the Orlanthi folk, though. He does grant Spirit Block to every cult, even spirit Cults or Chaos Cults, as their vote on the Spirit Plane (Well, he did in RQ2 and I like the idea).

RQ2 said that the Storm Buller must go back to a Temple and gather a group of stringer storm bulls to fight the Chaos. Presumably the same applies in RQG. Also, Storm Bull provides the Face Chaos spell, so this assumes that not all storm Bullers have to face chaos, unless the spell is for other folk. In my Glorantha, the Storm Bull cultists gather at Bull Hold in the Footprint and at a similar place near Glorantha, then they amass an army of several thousand Storm Bull cultists and decide to march into the Chaos Nest to destroy it. Not many come back. The stories of what happened deter Storm Bull cultists from doing the same for a whole generation, then the process is repeated.

In RQ2, you could get a POW gain roll and if you succeeded you could spend the POW gained but not keep it. This was especially important for Priests who got a bonus to their species max POW for the purposes of POW Gain rolls, I think. In RQG, Priests have a +20% to their chance of gaining POW, so someone at Species Maximum POW has a 0% chance (but 01-05 always succeeds) but a Priest would have a 20% chance of gaining POW. They would have to spend it immediately, probably filling up their Rune Pool. Chaos Features increase POW by a certain amount and I assume also increases Species maximum POW accordingly. so, someone with 3D6 POW who gains +3D6 POW through a Chaotic Feature would have a species Maximum POW of 42. I play that some HeroQuests can increase Species Maximum POW. Magic can increase Species maximum POW Casting my mind back, didn't Eurmal's crumbs give a boost to Species Maximum POW? Being worshipped probably increases Species Maximum POW.

I'm coming around to the idea of giving HeroQuestors a Rune pool for spells learned on HeroQuests, in addition to the ones for each cult.

Generally, yes, but this doesn't necessarily give you any benefits. Not all spirits can grant Rune magic. I am not sure if all spirits get the POW you sacrifice. Shamans can do it with Controlled Spirits. Daka Fal used to grant Gift POW, which gifted POW to another Spirit, which is what you are effectively trying to do.

We agreed that Acids and Bases worked the same way in RuneQuest terms, if only for convenience. They did double damage against Gorps in our game.

For me, it's just time. I have nearly finished the text of my first contribution and have sourced artwork. Next step will be putting it all together, then on to the next one.

HeroQuesting at its finest.

That's what I play. Wheels stay as they are and don't naturally degrade. Of course, someone could clip them, but then they aren't wheels and I play they are visibly ruined. I would just let Lokarnos cultists use the Coin Wheel spell to split already-created Wheels into their spokes. So, you can use the same number of Wheels as the spell would normally create. As with clipping, above, I play that this would just look wrong, so nobody would accept them.

This is one of the problems when talking about Chaotic acts. Some cultures believe that Ikadz is Chaotic and some don't. Some view Mallia as Chaotic and some don't. Some say that Urain is Chaotic and some don't. One way around this is to say that a Deity with the Chaos Rune is Chaotic and those without the Chaos Rune are not Chaotic.

Nor do I now. I am sure we used to have a delete button.

You edit the post and choose Delete Post. Like the Post I deleted before this one. Actually, you can't. I am sure that you used to be able to do that, but can't now.

You edit the post and choose Delete Post.

He probably inspired them, or sent them to do it.

Didn't Yelornans have stars, which were small silver coins? Or were they small gold coins? I can't remember.

The God Time was shattered beyond recognition during the Gods War. Heroes reconstructed it to make Time. When they did so, they did it in their own way, which caused some inconsistencies and contradictory myths.

I don't have any particular insights, except that some people think that Draconism was forced upon Orlanth and some think that his Inner Dragon was always there, waiting to be awakened. He made people think it was bad for Orlanth to be Draconic. However, once Orlanth's Inner Dragon was awakened, it was always present. after the Breaking of Dragons and the Dragonkill, it was severely weakened, as very few Orlanthi worshipped or followed it, but it was still there, followed in secret by Draconic Orlanthi mystics. Argrath did several Draconic things: Found the EWF Battle Banner Owned the Dragonteeth Warriors Spoke to the Dragons on the Ship Raising HeroQuest Awakened the Brown Dragon at the Dragon Rise Caused the True Dragons to pull down the Red Moon Personally, I think that he encountered some Orlanthi Draconic Mystics and learned their secrets, allowing him to access some of the EWF Powers.

In my Glorantha, Teleport makes the air to flow in, as it rejoices in Orlanth's power. The visual effect of Healing is of the wound knitting itself together very quickly, then disappearing. Humakti and Waha Healing always leaves a scar of some kind. For spells the PCs haven't seen before, I describe the effects, but don't bother after that,

For me, it is about intent. If you HeroQuest as Ragnaglar and rape Thed, then you are doing a Chaotic thing, as Ragnaglar did a chaotic thing. similarly, if you devour a book as Thanatar did, that is Chaotic, if you impregnate someone to breed a chaos monstrosity, that is Chaotic, as Ragnaglar did it. However, Unicorns impregnate creatures and they give birth to unicorns, sometimes, so that is not, in itself, Chaotic. Eating a fellow human is not necessarily Chaotic. Rape is not necessarily Chaotic. Torture is not necessarily Chaotic. The problem happens when you consider sympathetic magic, assuming that is the right word for this. If you eat someone, that is not necessarily Chaotic, but you are, in some way, emulating the eating of someone that is a Chaotic act. So, you are mirroring that act and, therefore, giving it mythical power. If you give a Chaotic event on the God Plane strength, then are you not performing a Chaotic act? I would say that if you are emulating a non-Chaotic being who did a non-Chaotic thing during God Time, then you are not doing a Chaotic thing. If you emulate a Chaos act during God Time then you are doing a Chaotic thing. The trick is to find a deity that did something in a non-Chaotic way and invoke that. The other trick is to prove that the non-Chaotic Deity actually did a Chaotic act, so anyone from now on who invokes/emulates that act is making a Chaotic act. That is one of the things that makes HeroQuesting so fun.

That's how I describe it. You are walking and moving slowly, as if walking through water, or treacle. I don't really look into it any further than that.

Probably not.

Whew, I was starting to worry there. I always include 0 and started to wonder whether I should be doing that.

In the Tale of the Arganauts, our last Gloranthan Campaign, the PCs were working to resurrect Genert. One of the steps was to sacrifice 1,000 people, making a 10x10x10 cube of their bodies. They took it in their stride and it became a logistics exercise about how to source 1,000 people to sacrifice, not whether it was OK to sacrifice them.

One of the PCs in our RQ2/RQ3 campaign HeroQuested and got permanent Bless Woad equal to his POW, also stackable with Woad. It just meant that he had to be naked to fight. However, his PC was notoriously shy and hated being seen nude, so kept asking Orlanth if it was OK to keep one sock on.With permanent, non-dispellable woad 19, I'd have taken my kit off all the while.

The best swear words only have one syllable, though, as least in English.