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I think this very much depends. Is the Rune Lord savvy enough to engage with all the appropriate laws and customs? Swear guest-oath, and behave as a guest ought? And this is exactly what Lawyers are for. You have a legal dispute and the Law Speaker decides by interpreting the law. The Lunars might have their own law Speaker and the two law Speakers might debate to see who gets the best result.

I get blamed for everything. And I'm probably wrong, as always. The locust symbology is interesting, the armies devouring the crops and then seeming like locusts, presumably because there were so many of them.

Absolutely, yes. I play that all flocks/herds have a wyter of their own, very weak and a bit useless, but still there. PCs could gain control of it and cause a stampede, or could cause an insect swarm to go in a particular direction and so on. Giant Insects seem to be individual in nature, but I suppose a swarm of giant locusts could have its own wyter the same as a swarm of normal-sized bees.

Great, now convert that to BRP rules! 😮

This reminds me of the faculty of the Unseen University in the Discworld books, who were trying to sneak into somewhere, but couldn't be seen as wizards. Someone suggested that they take off their Pointy Hats, but that was was met with blank looks and total bemusement at how such a thing could be possible as they were Wizards and their Pointy Hats defined them. The solution was as silly as it was sensible, they wore wire hooks going from their ears to their beards, making it look as though they were wearing false beards and were pretending to be Wizards. Genius. It also fits in with my idea that guards in any RPG are inherently stupid/gullible.

To a certain extent. gaining Traits negates the need for Training, especially if, like me, you allow multiple Traits to be used. But, Paolo's idea of a downtime conflict makes sense.

Thanks for posting this. They are quite big settlements and the Wikipedia page has some good information. I had never heard of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_XIII%2C_Duke_of_Bavaria 🙂 Actually, for RPG purposes, it doesn't matter whether someone actually existed or not. My Fantasy Earth supplements rely as much on the Mythic aspects as the Historical aspects. So, a campaign could contain Robin Hood, King Arthur, Aladdin, Jezebel or whoever. If it has a good story and suits the period, then I am likely to include them.

Damn, damn, damn! 🙂

Yes. Balastor's Axe is one such weapon. Nosebiter is another weapon, wielded by Trollkin who are named Nosebiter's Feet.

The thing about forests is that they mean different things. In medieval England, and parts of medieval Europe, a Forest was a n area of land set aside for hunting. It normally contained trees, but also contained clearings, grasslands, shrubs, wasteland and so on. Peasants could live in the Forests, using fallen trees and collecting fruits and nuts, they could keep pigs which fed on acorns.some people even fenced off parts of the forest and had villages there. Other areas had massive forests that are large wooded areas. I think the Black Forest was more like this than a hunting forest, but am not sure. Places such as Russia have vast endless forests, the Taiga, that cover many thousands of square miles. However, even they are not continuous woodlands and have farmland, grassland and other areas dotted around inside them. In England, we have Spinneys, which are small woods, probably with only a few hundred trees in, or Copses which are even smaller. They would be too small to show on a map of a large area, but might show on a map of a village. Rivers would have trees growing along their banks. Areas around woodland might contain bushes and shrubs, the outback in Australia isn't known as Bush for nothing.

"It's behind you!!!!"

I'd allow a female PC to awaken her star Heart the same as for men, it sounds like a very Vingan thing to do. Whether you could have both star Heart and secret Words depends on your game. I'd allow it, if the woman awakened one and then the other through gameplay. So, a female PC could have heard Ernalda's secret Words, then turned to Vinga's Path and then awakens her Star Heart as a Vingan. Alternatively, she could be a Vingan and awaken her Star Heart, then leave Vinga's Path, once her vengeance has been satisfied, returning to Ernalda and then awaken her Secret Words. In my last Gloranthan campaign, one of the tasks set by the Feathered Horse Queen was to make her a present with their own hands. she had previously confided to Mello Yello that she liked woven things, so he made her a shawl and built in some magical powers into it, or rather the other PCs did. It was the best gift, in her eyes, and Mello Yello won that particular round of the Marriage Contest. He won the whole Contest in the end, becoming the King of Dragon Pass, but that was the most memorable of his tasks. To make something interesting, you make it important. you get the PCs to invest time and energy into it. You get them to increase skills and use magic to make it better.

The Votanki are more Mesolithic than Neolithic, as they are mobile Hunter-Gatherers who gravitate around ritual hearths/camps. The Citadel Votanki herd pigs, but I doubt they are Neolithic, as the Citadel Dwellers are typically Bronze Age. why don't the types of culture bleed together and bring the Votanki up to a different technological base? Who knows. My thoughts have been that something actively stops them. The Elves were burned out of their forests in the First Age. Firshala, is trapped in her prison because of that and I think she was the Burner. Arkat was friendly with the Aldryami, so it might have been Zorak Zorani who burned them, or perhaps humans, who knows? In any case, there are Aldryami in the Elder Wilds, but few in Balazar. Aldrya is important in the Elf Forests of the Elder Wilds, in the same way that Kyger Litor is important to the trolls in the hills and mountains of the Elder Wilds. The Elf Sea was named for the water Aldryami who lived there, but they are long dead. In my Glorantha, Balazar's goddess is Rigitania, the Earth Nymph. She is a daughter of Genert, as per one of the many sources I read, maybe something in an old Wyrms Footnotes. So, she is the analogue of the Lady of the Wilds, another daughter of Genert. in my Glorantha, the daughters of Genert reached into a bag and pulled out some tokens, some had grains on and they became Grain Goddesses, others had beasts on and they became the sources of those wild beasts. Rigitania pulled out a beast token and the game animals of Balazar and the Elder Wilds come from her. When a hunter performs the Peaceful Cut, it sends the spirit of the dead beast back to her for rebirth. That is why Balazr is light on agriculture and has a lot of hunting of game.

I would give the User a skill to be able to use it. The user could then unlock the abilities of the object as their skill grew higher. Dreams are fine. You can use it for good or ill. Telling people about someone's heroism is probably good. Causing nightmares could be good or bad, depending on why they have nightmares. It might allow you to jump into someone's dream, which would be interesting. Telepathy is fine, it just allows you to communicate over long distances. If the target has been captured, it makes some scenarios ridiculously easy. "'The princess of the Flame Kingdom has been captured and the King needs you to find her'. 'OK', uses the item, 'Flame Princess, where are you?', pauses, 'She's in the Golden forest'". It might be worth restricting it to people the user has met, or the item has contacted previously. The OP mentions one named target, which is fine until that target dies. Can another target be added? Scrying can be fine, depending on how you use it. We banned the Vision spell in our RQ2 multi-GM campaign for years, then I allowed it. Gleefully, the PCs sacrificed for it and spent an hour scoping out the complex they were exploring, "Wow, this is boring" said one of the Players and they never used it again. If you use to to check out all the rooms in a complex, it can be boring and can take the fun out of adventuring. We always had a visual component for scrying, perhaps a reflection of the scryer in a mirror, or an eye that moves around, or they see through the eyes of paintings that seem to come alive and so on.

It may have changed, it may well change again in the future. One thing that Glorantha has taught me is that there are no absolutes. It could be argued that Vinga is Orlanth in many respects. It could also be argued that Vinga is Orlanth's daughter and has inherited many of his attributes. both could be trues, both could be false. For me, Vinga is an Aspect of Orlanth, in the same way that Orlanth Adventurous, Orlanth Thundrous and Orlanth Rex are Aspects of Orlanth. Vinga is Orlanth Adventuress, Orlanth the Avenger.

Yes, she gets the extra Damage Bonus when attacking with a moving bison. Stationary or on foot, she gets her own Damage Bonus. The rationale is that a moving animals gets the momentum of the beast, whereas a stationary one just gets the arm strength of the rider, in a way. The rider rolls 1D10+10 for Hit Location and the unmounted person rolls 1D10 for hit location against the Rider, but 1D20 against the mount. For really tall mounts, such as someone riding a giant, the unmounted person cannot hit the rider but rolls 1D10 for the mount's Hit Location. It also applies to High Llamas, but that makes the front legs hard to hit, which is an odd consequence. You cast the spell on an arrow, then fire the arrow separately. If you have enough Strike Ranks, you can cast Multimissile and then shoot in the same round. At least, that's how it used to be, when you could do 2 things in a round (2 of Attack/Parry/Spellcast), the rule might have changed, but that's how I'd play it.

When I saw that URL I thought "What have the publishers of MERP and Rolemaster done to upset RPGNet?" 🤣 Looks like a kinky Ice Hockey team, or some Arctic porn story.

Yes, it is a puzzle. However, both Griffin Mountain and Griffin island have her as a very unclear figure, with societies of women getting occasional Battle/Spirit Magic at Sacred Time. According to those rules, she doesn't even grant Runemagic. In my campaign, she was the equivalent of Mahome and granted Runemagic. Similarly, the Votanki don't have metal weapons, even though they have raided the areas to the West and south for generations. I assumed that something was keeping them tied to their own culture and preventing them from accepting outside technology.

I had Durbaddath as Votank's father, who Exposed him on the hillside. I can't remember why he did it, Votank either had some feature or was missing a feature. The Votanki do not accept Durbaddath as Votank's father, so he isn't part of their pantheon. However, he is Votak's father, so has some power over him.

In old RQ2, we used to play that you could taste a tiny little bit of the Potion and use taste Analysis to work out what it was, without being affected by it. so, a Taste Analysis trait might work well. As for magical items, we just used them to find out what they did, if we didn't have Analyse Magic available. When my PC became an Associate Priest of Issaries and gained Analyse Magic, he was the favourite member of the party. In Revolution D100 terms, I'd just have a similar spell.

Looks good. It looks great as it is. You don't need art on a Character sheet. In case nobody heard ... YOU DON'T NEED ART ON A CHARACTER SHEET. Just in case nobody heard ... YOU DON'T NEED ART ON A CHARACTER SHEET.

For me, it isn't a problem. It's as though the Players are playing a scenario that they have already read, it gives them some clues as to what might happen, but the GM might have changed it anyway.

Publish it! Quick! If only we had a way to publish PDFs about Glorantha through a tried and tested RPG Publisher, with some profits going to the publisher, some to Chaosium and some to the author. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't it be nice if your PDF was included?

To be honest, I can't remember much about him. I read about him in some of the Stafford Encyclopedia books, thought "Oh, that's nice" and then forgot about him. Sorry.