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I keep needing to re-enter my Password for the Cult of Chaos Forums. Is there any way to make the site remember the password, in the same way it remembers my site login details?

Thanks, that works for me.

Broobirth happens with regular sex as well. What makes it harder to understand is that buggery also includes sex with animals and, as sodomy and buggery are generally accepted to be the same, by extension so does sodomy. Broos don't care which hole they go into, nor what species they love, they are the ultimate spreaders of Free Love in Glorantha. A female broo who gets pregnant always has a Broobirth, no matter who the father was, whether broo or non-broo.

Humans are quite capable of clearing trees to plant crops using stone tools. I remember reading somewhere that the Neolithic deforested the hilltops, as their ploughs worked best on the light soils. Bronze Age farmers had better ploughs, so deforested the sides of hills and iron Age farmers had even better ploughs and could work heavy clay soils, so deforested river valleys. Also, deforestation in the Neolithic meant that a lot more soil was washed into rivers, which extended their estuaries and changed how they worked. I can't remember much about that, but it impressed me at the time.

In theory, the only thing that slows a bullet down is air resistance, so should a point blank shot do more damage than one at distance?

Less dangerous than an owl? Wow, must only be able to catch teeny weeny mice and voles.

if you aim, or score a special or Critical, then you should hit the right one, otherwise do as Marc suggests and use the shooting into melee.

I think people are being unfair to pipe2null. Art on character sheets, as well as character sheet design in general, is very individual. I might design a workable character sheet that many people would hate. Similarly, I could see a beautiful character sheet that I would hate. The trick is to get many different versions, so you find one you like, or design one that you like and can use.

Sorry, didn't quite catch that. It looks great as it is.

Ok, it's your Character sheet, so you should design it however you like. My point is that a generic Character Sheet with artwork becomes trapped in that setting. If I have a Mythic Iceland Character Sheet that had runes and whatnot on, then I couldn't easily use it for a Byzantine Sorcerer or a Moor Pirate, both of whom could appear in a Mythic Iceland game.

I thought of them as Serpent Women, a bit like Lamia.

One of our Players took Shotgun 200% as a starting skill and had a base chance with everything else. When challenged, his response was something like "look, call of Cthulhu PCs only last a couple of adventures anyway, so I might as well have fun with this one". He has rubbish at most things, but could shoot a grain of sand out of the eye of a Deep One.

Some people call it the Lifebringers' Quest, but I don't know where that term originally came from. He certainly constructed it from the myths of various people he visited and added in some of his own ideas through HeroQuesting, but he did this centuries after the Theyalan Missionaries, so I am not sure how much had been brought back. Presumably, they brought back some of the myths from their work.

It was definitely a two-way exchange. As they awoke the various peoples after The Dawn, they rediscovered a lot of their own, lost mythology, and brought it back with them. However, i can't think of any obvious examples off the top of my head, except Yelm-Orlanth being Golden Emperor-Rebel.

In my Glorantha, there is a tension between Waha Khans, who have to be male, and Storm Khans, who can be female. Although Waha Khans accept that Storm Khans can use the title "Khan" and that there are female Storm Khans, some of them just don;t like the idea of a female Khan. Also, Waha Khans respect tribal divisions and boundaries, but Storm Khans just trample all over them, having members of different Animal Nations as followers. They know that it is acceptable, but it is just another area where they have more freedom than Waha Khans and they just resent it. Does Priestesses mean they have to be female? Could a female Storm Khan marry a priest of Aurelion, for example? I am struggling to remember other male Earth deities other than Genert.

You will, hopefully. Lots and lots of books, all being well. We want you to draw until your arms drop off and put out more and more books.

I normally play that they are of different shapes and styles, depending on the individual clans. One Clan might have a long house, another a square house, another a round house, depending on their mythical background and origins. The style might change during a clan's life, so a clan might have long houses and then move to round houses to follow Elmal, or Yelmalio or The Only Old One. One Clan might have a Feasting Hall that is a longhouse and other halls for communal dwellings, but another might have everyone living in one longhouse, allowing it to double up as both.

Sounds like a good target for The Great Hunt in Sacred Time, or perhaps a version of The Great Hunt outside Sacred Time as a HeroQuest.

Are we talking Ringworld or Gor now? Ringworld might sound a little bit more interesting.

I do it in one of several ways, depending on how I feel: Use an NPC Generator in Excel to generate a load of individual NPCs and print them on a single sheet Use an NPC Generator to generate 1 NPC and use multiple identical NPCs Just make them up on the spot

Then you should know better!

I couldn't see any problems there and only realised that you aren't a native speaker at the end. Excellent post, by the way. Please feel free to join any discussions. I know it can be daunting, especially when deep-diving into mythology and history, or the interpretation of those, but new voices and views are always welcome. That goes for any other lurkers out there. In the Grand Gloranthan Tradition, yes and no. Yes, I agree that most deities are not fixed and that we don't know the extent of their history, mythology and powers. No, in that what has happened and is known is known by many people, so effectively becomes part of History, or GodTime History. I quite agree with this. Each HeroQuesting revelation either adds more to a Deity's character and past, or opens up a new facet of the Deity. This can be considered to be revealing something about the Deity itself, or joining the HeroQuestor to the Deity in some way, or letting the HeroQuestor take on an Aspect of the Deity. All might be right, all might be wrong or all might have some part that is right or wrong. New cults have been born from HeroQuesting to old deities, Orlanth Rex is a good example of this. Old Aspects of a deity might be revealed, Alakoring Dragonbreaker is a good example of this, as he both reinvigorated the cult of Orlanth Dragonslayer and became the Dragonslayer Aspect of Orlanth. The whole idea of HeroQuesting to change or uncover God Time is difficult to grasp sometimes and that's what makes it fun.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! I saw it at Dragonmeet and would have bought it there and then, even if it incurred the wrath of Mrs Soltakss, dragonfire and all.

Limited Edition, unfortunately. There are only so many virgins that Chaosium will allow to be sacrificed for the skins to make the cover, or some such problem. That is what the thread is for. Oh, and for MOB to post updates.

The only thing in RQG Runemagic I might change would be to make Common Runemagic work the same as other Runemagic. By this, I mean use the highest Cult Rune to cast them as normal, but the Cultists need to sacrifice for the spell. Alternatively, have them not need to sacrifice for the spell, if they don't want to, but double the Rune Points needed to cast a common Runespell not known. that way, they can still be used, so someone can always cast Sanctify for example, but it is harder.