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Derak the Dark Troll, in our RQ2 Campaign, had his bones slowly turned to Lead by his Lead Fist. Before he became a Living Lead Skeleton, he realised that he could open up a wound and carve things onto his bones, so he carved all his Foci into his Rib Bones, on the assumption that he could lose a limb but was unlikely to lose a rib. He discounted tattoos on the basis that they could be sliced off. When he became a Living Lead Skeleton, he enchanted some wraiths to permanently whirl around his bones and through his ribs, just because it looked cool.

I always give PCs the chance to dodge breath attacks, as it only seems fair. Also, I give Cacodemon and Fiends Heroic Casting of Vomit Acid, as they are not powerful enough as they are, so when a hundred foot tall demon grins and starts to gulp, you know it's time to move out of the way! I thought about having him stick one of his fingers down his throat, but he'd lose a Claw Attack that way.

You missed off Dull, excellent in combination with Talk for Hours ...

Not there on Friday and don't play Call of Cthulhu, as a rule, so almost certainly couldn't have been mine. Thanks for the info, anyway.

We pronounce it as: Hard-G, as in Got, ener as in energy, tela as in teller. GEN-er-TEla. We specifically don't pronounce it with a soft G, as that sounds too much like genitalia.

Oh, you really don't want to hear my theories of the degraded sex-pits that are Trollkin dens, with Elites and values lording it over the Food Trollkin, generating more and more Food Trollkin.

Yes, Bolgar Brother of the Bull, I know that you are a Storm Khan with many years of experience and I know that broos and such like can Spit Acid and that you have suffered many a grievous wound fighting Acid-Spitting broos and other what-not, but I can categorically assure you that my own personal Acid-Spitting ability is definitely 100% not Chaotic and MIND WHERE YOU PUT THAT SWORD!

Just checking: 2 HeroQuest games, both by Ian Cooper and both full. 3 RuneQuest Glorantha Games, by Michael Paul O'Sullivan, Ben Smith and Andrew Jones, all full. 3 13th Age Glorantha games, 2 by Guy Milner and one by Andrew Moreton, one of Guy's has a space on Friday but I can't go on Friday, the others are full Is that it? Boo, hoo, hoo. Just found a RuneQuest game by James McStravick at 0900 on Sunday! Wayhay! Looks like I'm going on Sunday, then. Is anything happening on Saturday? I've bought a weekend Ticket, just in case ...

My wife has changed her birthday plans, so I can go to UK Games Expo 2019! Well, she is travelling on her Birthday, so won't be around to stop me. Is anyone going? Are there any RQ Games not yet signed up? Are Chaosium doing any Seminars? I looked on the website but couldn't see any. For once, I am excited to be going, as I thought I wouldn't be able to.

I wasn't, Brankist was. Imagine D'Artagnan from the Holy Country, middle aged, telling long boring stories about "When I was in the Cavalry", now imagine him naked and blue. I think he was more embarrassed about being blue, to be honest, looking like a Smurf Musketeer. He became a Thanatar Hero in the end, subtly combining his love for Lhankor Mhy with his hatred of Thanatar and gaining control of a Thanatar Great Temple beneath Dorastor.

They don't in the rules, but most people I know will send an Ancestral Spirit to help for a Divine Intervention. Firshala and Mistress Sazdorf get DI, but the DI just incarnates Firshala or Mistress Sazdorf. Maybe that's the way to go. Your Wyter incarnates the Hero or Founder.

I think that it means you get a point of Spirit Magic that you can choose. So, if you have Bladesharp 2 and Farsee, then you could get Healing 1 at Sacred Time, for example, or you could increase Bladesharp 2 to Bladesharp 3. There has always been a difference in how people interpret variable spells, certainly from RQ2 times and into RQ3 and RQG. Some people think you learn Bladesharp 3 as a completely new spell, some people think you just add it to the Bladesharp 2 spell that you already have. Personally, I think that each extra point of a variable spell is a new 1 point spell that just adds to the others. So, if you have Bladesharp 2 then you learn the (one point) Bladesharp 3 spell, that way you can cast Bladesharp 1, 2 or 3 easily enough. To learn Bladesharp 3 from scratch you have to also learn Bladesharp 1 and 2, although I play that you can learn them all together as one spell. The cost of the spell works that way, you have to pay for Bladesharp 1, 2 and 3 in order to get Bladesharp 3 from scratch.

Really glad you enjoyed RQ. The current edition is probably the best one. You could use the RQ Classic scenarios and supplements with RQG fairly easily. You might have to handwave some stuff and might need to give NPCs Rune Pools, Runes and Passions, but apart from that it should work OK. They are available as PDFs, so are nice and easy to get hold of.

Brankist Farlow, one of our PCs, gained a Heroic Ability of Permanent Woad, which only manifested when he was naked and gave him Woad = POW. Although he had POW 15, which was more than his normal armour, he was so embarrassed about fighting naked that he very rarely used it. He tried to use a loincloth or various ways of hiding his manhood, but to no avail.

Gbaji, or Nysalor, faced down the Great Eater and Kyger Litor, was eaten by Kyger Litor and ripped its way out of her belly, through her womb, with his Adamantine Claws, damaging Korasting in the process. Following that, many trolls were born stunted and deformed, Trollkin. Some HeroQuestors tried to fix the Curse and one caused multiple births of Trollkin instead, which became the best way to tell who is a Trollkin or not, although it made Twin Births count as Trollkin. Because Trolls are pig-headed, stubborn and immensely conservative. There are two main ways to stop the Trollkin Curse, according to most Trolls: Stand between Gbaji and Korasting, fighting him and his Admantine Claws. That always ends badly for the Trolls, as the Adamantine Claws are pretty much fatal to Trolls. Heal Korasting's wounds and restore fertility to trolls. A lot of trolls have tried this and they often give their own fertility to Korasting, losing it in the process. Many gain HeroQuest curses that they can only give birth to Trollkin. For me, the Swallowing of Gbaji and the Ripping of the Womb are so closely intertwined that they are effectively the same action. Trolls don;t understand this. They think that they MUST swallow Gbaji and MUST stop him from damaging Korasting. Even the idea of not Swallowing Gbaji would be against everything they believe in. So, they continue to HeroQuest against Gbaji, swallowing him each and every time, strengthening the Trollkin Curse each and every time and wondering why they can't stop the Curse of Kin. Cragspider famously came at it a different way. Instead of preventing the attack, she strengthened Troll Mothers by infusing them with Dehori Spirits, making their Darkness more powerful, in the hope of allowing them to resist the Curse of Kin. That partially worked, as it gave them Great trolls rather than Trollkin. It shows how a different approach could work.

Originally in Cults of Terror. Vivamort was not included in Lords of Terror, as there was a problem with RQ3 Divine/Sorcery Magic and Vivamort being a sorcerous cult. It will hopefully appear in Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha. I haven't checked the Bestiary to see if it is mentioned in the Vampire writeup.

Wyters of Temples are initiates, as they are Temple Guardians. I always give the rune Lord DI. Wyters of Clans, Herobands and Sacred Societies tend not to be Initiates, so probably cannot DI, but some could be, depending on the situation. The wyter of a Troll Clan might be an aspect of the clan founder, for example, so the Saxdorf Clan was founded by Grandmother Sazdorf and their wyter could be an aspect of Grandmother Saxdorf, or perhaps a daughter of Grandmother Sazdorf, in which case it would have DI (unless you play that Ancestor Worshippers don't get DI).

There was a thread on RPG.NET where someone was trying to convert his PCs from another system to HeroQuest. After some toing and froing, he came up with a nice set of stats. One of the things he had was Flaws as Breakouts, with Flaw: in front of them. Nice and easy, no drama, recognised that it was a Flaw and could be used any way the GM or Player want. I thought it was a nice way of doing it. So, someone might have Detective 10M (Observant +1, Relentless +2, Flaw:Alcoholic +3). In this case the Flaw:Alcoholic would be a penalty to the Detective and would reduce the skill. It might even be applied to other areas, if it is important to the game. They could be a separate ability, in which case you might have Detective 10M (Observant +1, Relentless +2), Alcoholic 20 (Abusive +2, Reformed +1), with the amount in the Keyword determining how much of a Flaw it is and the Breakouts describing what the main effects are.

Unfortunately, the dislike for Mongoose's line meant that RQG was originally referred to as RQ4, which causes whole storm that has only recently calmed down. There has been a trend of rejecting what was done before, either as non-canonical or inferior. I understand that from a business point of view, but dislike it from a personal, fanboy point of view. As far as I know, they are amicable. By the way, ranting is fine, as it gets it out of your system. You won't win this one, though, as opinions are very entrenched. I just take the best bits of the systems and use them in my games, do it doesn't matter to me what the official line is.

Just had an image of a Vingan feeding her baby with bread soaked in blood instead of with milk. Probably not very nutritious, though.

Derak the Dark Troll, one of our RQ2 PCs, had The Hero Stone, which was a 4 point Crystal that gave access to any reusable runespells from any cult that was Enemy (0) to Chaos on the Cult Compatibility chart. So, in RQG terms, it would be a 4 point Rune Pool to all cults enemy to Chaos. It regenerated on a weekly basis. So, you could cast Shield 4, or Berserker, or Face Chaos or whatever. Once Derak went on a HeroQuest and, as a result, the Hero Stone was infected by Chaos, so instead of just Cults Enemy to Chaos, it also allowed cults Associated (4) with Primal Chaos. By that time, we had got hold of Gods of Glorantha and Elder Secrets, so he cast Vomit Acid a few times.

But much, much more fun!

Wetnurses were very popular in the past. There's no reason for a Vingan to have to nurse her baby herself. Better to drop it off at an Ernalda temple and get a wetnurse to do that. Plenty of time for bonding when she gets back.

Thanks David. RQ3 Fiends are like RQ2 Cacodemon. I like the idea of summoning Cacodemon itself, our PC have fought Cacodemon several times in a couple of campaigns, it always goes well. Shame about Vomit Acid, though.

It's in Elder Secrets, sorry, my mistake. Vomit Acid should be included in every version of RQ, in my opinion.