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Here's how I pronounce them:

• "wyter" like "bitter" or "litter" but with a "w", but some people say it like "writer" and some people might use a "v" not a "w"
• "tarshite", the first as in "harsh", the second as in "light", never as TAR-SHITE
• "sartarite", the first as in "far", the second as in "tar", the third as in "light"

Coming from England, people pronounce all kinds of words differently, even if you move 10 miles/15 kilometres away, so I've never really bothered with "how" something might sound. In our RPG group, we have 5 people who pronounce Pavis in 5 ways.

7 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

So.... which god brought Death to the universe?

Humakt. Not connected to Air (now).

Or Eurmal, never connected to Air.

7 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

Which element is known for starting wars??

None of them, but Storm Gods are known for their unruliness.

Personally, I don't subscribe to "Deities are Elements" ideas. For me, Orlanth did what Orlanth did because he was a rebel, a maverick and opposed to the Emperor, not necessarily because he was an Air/Storm God. Now, I grant you that Air/Storm Deities are normally aggressive and violent, with a few exceptions (Brastalos and Molanni, for example), but Air itself has started no wars.

7 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

Celine Dion gets her kit off in the Titanic???

Oh, no, it's the other one, the one who doesn't sing, the one who is actually in the film. It's ages since I watched it.

On 5/17/2019 at 1:43 PM, Tywyll said:

On a slight tangent...how do you defeat a Wyter like that? I mean, in the current rules, ignoring houseruled heroquest abilities. I can see an extremely powerful shaman maybe challenging one, but 42 POW pretty much makes it immune to magic. 

You don't, or it is hard. Even if you smash the idols and deconsecrate the temple, the wyter hangs around, waiting to come back if the temple is reconsecrated. At least it does in my Glorantha.

I give wyters some form of Heroic Casting in my games, so they can cast some Runespells using their Magic Points, leaving their Rune Pool for other spells.

Also, in a Major or Great Temple, each Subcult or Hero Cult worshipped has its own little Wyter and they tend to work together. So, a Great Temple to Orlanth would have a number of Associate Deities and thunder Brothers, each with wyters that can cast spells in their own little areas. 

12 hours ago, Kloster said:

Is Air innocent?

Is it guilty?

11 hours ago, metcalph said:

Nothing about Heroquesters.  

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The dwarfs of Gemborg were the first group to dissent,
uniquely while their ancient Silver Age hero was still alive. He
and the Only Old One fought hand to hand, and the Only Old
One proved he was no troll, for iron did not burn him. But the
dwarf lord still rebelled, and his human followers used volcanic
powers from their area to drive off troll armies in 123 S.T.

RuneQuest Companion p28

After the Dragonkill War of 1100,
the Only Old One proved himself to be a troll in magical contest
with Kajak-ab Brain Eater and so shared rule of Dragon Pass with
the leaders in Dagori Inkarth. This led eventually to the first troll
civil war in Dragon Pass which weakened the Shadowland trolls
greatly.

RuneQuest Companion p29

 

So, he fought a Silver Age Mostali Hero in hand to hand combat and proved himself a troll in magical contest with a troll? Sounds like HeroQuesting to me.

11 hours ago, metcalph said:

Nope.  Tis Argan Argar who's depicted as such;

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He is graven as a dark troll (never as one of the mistress race) with large eyes. His right hand is extended and his left hand holds a spear. He is usually carved from igneous rock.

Sartar Companion p245 (originally from the GoG Prosopaedia https://www.glorantha.com/docs/argan-argar/)

 

Mistress race Trolls breed true, so someone with two Mistress race Trolls as parents is going to be a Mistress race Troll. However, someone with a Dark troll as a parent is going to be a Dark Troll, by and large. Maybe if his mother was a Troll Goddess, he'd have been a Mistress Race Troll, but his mother was Esrola, I think.

That says to me that he would be a Dark Troll.

On 5/16/2019 at 9:49 AM, rabindranath72 said:

For example, the Gaming in Glorantha section shows breakout abilities at the same value of the keyword, but is that correct? What's the point of having breakouts at the same value of the keyword, if the keyword subsumes a potentially larger set of abilities anyway?

Some people play that using a feature of a keyword that isn't described as a breakout could incur a Penalty, so having it mentioned as a Breakout avoids that Penalty. There is a rule about Keywords that are too general, I think. So, If I have Steadsman as a Keyword, I might be expected to be able to fight at my Steadsman rating, as Steadsmen can fight, however, if I say "But all Steadsmen can face broos without flinching" then I might be able to use my Steadsman Keyword with a penalty, unless I had Steadsman 18 (Face Broos), in which case it would be without a Penalty. If I had Uroxi as a Keyword, then I would be expected to face broos without flinching anyway, so would not incur a Penalty, but if I had Uroxi 18 (Face Chaos) then I would be able to stand my ground against any kind of chaos, no matter how terrifying.

We are using a hybrid of Revolution and RQG at the moment, but in Dark Ages Britain.

I am using Revolution's excellent Skills/Traits/Stunts system with some spells from RQG. If I need to use stead management, I'll use the RQG rules. Combat is really RQG with Revolution Combat Effects, which seems to be working well.

As Revolution is quite close to Mythras, in many ways, it would probably be as easy.

The trick is to decide which parts of which system you are going to use and sticking with them. Also, you'll need to House Rule some stuff, especially where the two systems don't gel as much.

On 5/12/2019 at 9:35 PM, Joerg said:

Nothing so paltry as a few raised stats. Harsaltar and his sisters had taken the really heavy duty geases when they formed the Household of Death. Harsaltar was killed by the geas, not by the Emperor.

Yes, these were Terrible HeroQuesting Geases. I'd guess that they were sworn on the Styx, Garrote of the Gods, to strengthen them.

On 5/13/2019 at 8:15 AM, Bill the barbarian said:

and forget about seeing the Titanic the Boat sinks and (horrors) Celine Dion sings a song

But also gets her kit off, so a spoiler that might be useful.

On 5/13/2019 at 4:31 PM, Tywyll said:

So one of my players just got knocked to -HP in the head. He asked for DI from his draconic ocean goddess to protect him (he is currently being attacked by a lich/vampire). His mates are fighting the creature.

What happens?

He's grappled by the monster and dominated, so I was thinking he would get turned to water, splash away and reform, healed and undominated. However, he is still squishy and vulnerable to further attacks from the creature (i.e. he's not really being protected, just temporarily restored). 

We played that the Deity would protect from one special power of the Lich, in this case would prevent him from being Dominated/Enthralled in the combat.

When fighting a Chaos Demon that had the power of "Demoralise all who saw it, no roll", so one of the PCs used Divine Intervention to Zorak Zoran to embolden them against the monster, so he made them temporarily immune to its power.

We played that Divine Intervention could not be used offensively, as stated in the rules. So, you couldn't ask for a pit to open up beneath the Lich, but you could ask for the Lich's Crypt to be hit by an earthquake, if you asked Maran Gor, but not if the crypt is a Temple.

That makes sense, I like it.

I also play that if you succeed in the STR vs STR or STR vs DEX (for a throw, I think) and roll below your Martial Arts then you get a special effect. So, you really nail the immobilise or throw.

Very nice, thanks.

Could we have a scale please?

As a wise man once said, "A map without a scale is a picture".

You should put all of your cults in a PDF.

On 5/13/2019 at 1:03 PM, Shiningbrow said:

Which sort of brings us full circle - is Tapping evil?

The Tap spells are not evil, but using them is generally considered evil, unless you belong to a special sect that allows it.

In the same way that guns are not evil, but someone using them to massacre innocents is doing evil using guns.

On 5/12/2019 at 11:26 PM, EpicureanDM said:

This makes no sense to me. Are you suggesting that a game's designer shouldn't use the rules they published in their rulebooks when running a public game aimed at getting people to buy those rules?

No, I'm saying that if a Game Designer uses some other rule on the spot, because he doesn't want to spend five minutes finding it in the rulebook, then he shouldn't be surprised to see people questioning the use of the rule and wondering why he used that rule rather than the rules in the book.

On 5/13/2019 at 6:36 PM, PhilHibbs said:

On 5/13/2019 at 1:56 PM, PhilHibbs said:

I feel that the rules should have made it clear...

On 5/13/2019 at 6:32 PM, Kloster said:

This is not clear, even in the Rune Cults section.

Yes, that's why I said that the rules should have made it clear.

Is it clear?

On 5/14/2019 at 8:03 AM, Tywyll said:

So, if a Humakti has a gift to double damage past armor, and they hit a target warded with the sorcery spell that compares damage on the resistance table...how does that work? Since the damage the target takes is figured after armor, but the spell triggers before armor...?

Is it rolled damage vs Sorcery, the armor, then double remainder? Even if the sorcerer is wearing no armor and all the damage would get doubled?

We played that it did double Penetrating Damage.

So, you take the normal damage, see if it penetrates armour/magic then double it.

In the example given, I'd roll damage, match it against the spell and double it if it gets through. We played that the Sorcery Spell acted after armour, so you subtracted APs, then matched against the spell and doubled if it got through.

On 5/14/2019 at 10:29 AM, svensson said:

Jeff points out two Uz male cultural heroes in Gore and Gash, and I would add a third, the Only Old One of Shadow Plateau [all of whom I should have thought of in the first place].

The Only Old One is always portrayed as a Dark Troll, if I remember correctly. He also proved himself to be a Troll to one group of HeroQuestors and Not a Troll to another. He should be a Mistress Race Troll, but was a bit different.

On 5/13/2019 at 2:30 AM, svensson said:

Are there any Mistress Race males, and if so, what are their roles in Uz Society? One presumes that they are too important to go bashing about like some Karg's Son Rune Lord....

Yes, there are Mistress Race Males. They aren't as important as Mistress race females, but are the magical leaders of the Trolls Warriors.

Arkat Kingtroll was a Mistress Race Troll, as were his Companions. It mentions somewhere that when they were transformed they all came out as Mistress Race Trolls, a previously unheard of event.

All Trolls born in Wonderhome were Mistress Race Trolls. Mistress Race Trolls breed true, so a male child born to two Mistress race Trolls would be Mistress Race Trolls.

If you just want rules for Rome, I think that Mythic Rome is out and is BRP Rome updated to Mythras.

However, you might just be after a copy of BRP Rome, in which case, Good Luck!

I'd just make it an ability that he can summon sheep, or, rather, can call nearby sheep to come to him.

If there are no nearby sheep, he might need a Runespell to summon them, Summon Flock of Sheep would do it, summoning his POW in sheep, through a magical portal. Of course, someone might want to know where their flock of sheep have gone and might come through the portal.

On 5/15/2019 at 2:39 PM, Shiningbrow said:

So, a Stormbull with Harmony is possible!

One of the PCs in our old RQ Campaign played as though he had harmony not Disorder, to the extent that the other Players said that he worshipped Calm Bull. he was pretty good at killing Chaos though, but is a measured way.

8 hours ago, RosenMcStern said:

Actually, this is Revolution D100 slot system, too. For each 10% you have in a skill, you can learn a new "thing".

We use the Tens Unit for the number of slots, so someone with 47% in a skill has 4 slots. Nice and easy.

When we tried using the Mythras Combat Maneuvers in RQ3, our players were hit by Analysis Paralysis and didn't like them.

We are using an adapted form of Revolution and suddenly the players get them and use them all the while. It helps that I have just said that they get 1 Effect per Success Level above the opponent, with Failures getting none and an opponent's Fumble giving them one. It also helps that I have abandoned the idea of some having to score a Critical, which makes it easier to use. They tend to choose Ignore Armour, Ignore parry or Maximum Damage, but have used Drop Fie and Trip. One of the PCs has gained a Shillelagh which gives an Automatic Knockback, which he discovered in the last combat.

On 5/15/2019 at 11:12 PM, Videopete said:

In classic call of cthulhu we are told that the universe is cruel and has no place for people.  That to know the truth would break you and that you could not know.

This is the one bit about Call of Cthulhu that I just can't get my head around, which probably explains why I don't particularly like CoC.