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And that is the whole point of this thread, I believe. Is Dragonewt Magic something that can be learned and cast as a spell, being mind-based, or is it effectively an ability that is gained by the Dragonewt?

Forks were not used until relatively recently, as they were said to support the Devil. I remember reading that a churchman deliberately used a fork at a dinner party, or the equivalent at the time, to debunk this and promptly choked on a mouthful of food that he had just eaten with his fork, thus reinforcing its place in superstition. This kind of thing is kinda silly, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

Looking at this Unicorn Rider reminded me of the Turks as depicted in the excellent Resurrection Ertugrul TV Series. They use Composite Bows but have saddlebags with an extra bag for their bow and arrows, it simply goes over the horse's flank, normally over the saddle bags, and has a large space for the stringed bow and a smaller one for quivers of arrows. Nice and easy.

Wow! If only you could enter some parameters to get the kind of face/age that you wanted, that would be even better.

Or having your friends being eaten, one at a time, by Ogres. Or being played with by broo.

RQ3 Gods of Glorantha, under the Red Goddess cult.

Dragonewts and Dragons use Dragon Magic, which might be a power system.

A game in which NPCs can Vomit Acid on you, Sweat Acid, Spit Acid, Breathe Fire, or just Swallow you, why isn't that in the spirit of the game? One of the PCs in an old Gloranthan campaign unfortunately was turned into a Living Lead Skeleton, so in the spirit of making lemonade when given lemons, he enchanted two wraiths into his bones, so that they endlessly whirled around inside him, moaning, just because it looked cool. That is wasting POW on enchantments.

Genert was an earth god and was definitely male. Not all Earth things are female. Barntar is Orlanth the Farmer, in effect, god of specialist farmers. In many ways, he shows mastery over the earth, ploughing and planting are similar to impregnating the earth, growing is drawing things out of the earth and harvesting is gaining treasures from the earth, all things that Orlanth has done in the past.

Still waiting for the Glorantha version ...

We just use the "Good greetings in ill times, friend" from the Light Bringers Greeting, it's short enough to be usable and traditional enough to be sacred.

Sure, no problem. What is the Site's policy on Necroing threads? Perhaps we should add that to the Site Guidelines. Wouldn't want to annoy you unnecessarily, Peter.

Sure, but you have to overcome POW/Magic Points for it to work. But it's a good attack spell.

I just play that the fire is stored in the Binding Enchantment, it makes it easier and gets around the "I need a burning forest to summon a 10m Salamander" problem in RQ3.

I wouldn't have the Elemental manifest inside the body, to be honest. It might burst through the wound and manifest around the body, though. If you are using RQ3 style Elementals, then you might consider using a damage progression for each size of the elemental, so a 1m elemental might do 1D3 damage to the location, a 2m elemental 1D6, then 1D8, 1D10 and so on. For RQG, I'd just say 1D6 for each Size Class of the Elemental, so Small does 1D6, Medium 2D6 and Large 3D6. Then the Elemental hits the target with its appropriate attack, whether fearshock, madness, heatshock, drowning, being thrown into the air or snapping your legs.

Yeah, what @metcalph says would work well. You could also just halve the D6s for a less powerful version, so Aluminium would become softer at 3D6 but Bronze would top out at 4D6 and Iron would stand 8D6. Whichever you prefer would work.

Oh, I'd make them a magic item, after all Hofstaring, was a hero. It also gives the PCs some cause to rethink whether they even should return the Hands.

They are written up as vampires, looking and acting as vampires do. In what way are they not vampires? Sorry, I confused the Dancers in Darkness with the Pale Ladies, the Marsh Nymphs who can expand the marsh by placing magical staves in the ground and performing a ritual. As a PC, having Vampire steal by magic is incredibly scary. Having them being able to use stolen magic against me is both blasphemous and scary.

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Excellent news. I am a big fan of Alternate/Mythic Earth and can only welcome more settings. The Aztecs are a really good culture to explore. Of course, I'd then also want the Incas and Mayans. Mythic Polynesia is also a very interesting and underexplored culture.

Thanks, I've downloaded them and will definitely use them, if only for ideas and inspiration.

Another example of Glorantha not really being a Bronze Age world in the way that we understand it in the real world. Glorantha has paper, parchment, papyrus, clay tablets and so on. Far more than existed in the RW Bronze Age. Depending on your interpretation of Dragon pass, Pavis definitely has libraries, as one of the Heroes of Pavis is a librarian, is is according to the P&BRC Series. I would say that all temples have libraries of some kind. Yelmalian Temples do, as one of the Priests is in charge of the library, or so I recall. The Truth Rune is also the Knowledge Rune, so Truth cults might have libraries. I see Humakti libraries as being records of duels fought, locations of undead and so on. Ernaldan temples libraries might contain inventories of grain, as well as records of births and maybe marriages. Ty Kora Tek libraries would contain records of deaths. Black Fang temples would contain lists of hits, who hired them, who carried them out and who was targeted, mainly for insurance purposes. Thanatar also has libraries, as Thanatar is the Chaotic equivalent of Lhankor Mhy or Irrippi Ontor. Yes, they would be recorded and yes, some people marry at a Temple or Shrine. Although the traditions of jumping over a bonfire, jumping over a broom, trying hands together and so on, exist, important or devout people could get married in a Temple. You can also get married as part of a HeroQuest, quite often if the marriage is taboo or forbidden, HeroQuests are ways to get around the rules. Yes, Lhankor Mhy would have access to all kinds of text. Earth cults would use the equivalent of cuneiform, with letters stamped or written on clay tablets, for their most sacred texts, with permanent records having the clay tablets fired to turn them into ceramics. Troll Cults carve Darktongue into rocks. Other Darkness Cults might do the same. Water Cults wouldn't use parchment or paper for their most important documents, as they need to be available underwater. They do have a good supply of ink, though. Fire cults may well brand letters into wood, or something similar, for their most sacred documents. Air/Storm Cults don't have an obvious way of writing, unless you count smoke signals. Thunder Rebels, I think, mentions Cat Scratchings as a form of writing, the equivalent of Ogham, scratched into bones. That could work for some cults. I think that all cults make use of writing on scrolls, parchment, paper, papyrus and so on. This means they are easily stored, don't decay and can be easily copied or transported. I am not sure if texts would be routinely loaned out. Certainly you can visit a library and study the texts there. Scribes make their living by copying texts, so they would be paid to copy a text. Cult Secret texts would not be allowed to be removed from temple libraries, but could be studied by Associate Priests, I would think. Particularly embarrassing secrets would be restricted. Lore that reveals cult weaknesses or describes enemy cult secrets may well be forbidden, or at least only available to the High Priest of the temple.

The Storm Tribe definitely took heads as trophies. That is why Tien was beheaded - Storm Bull's Son took his head as a trophy.

RQ2 and RQ3 Strike ranks are very similar, except that RQ3 has 10 SRs per round. Ringworld has an Impulse system, apparently, but RQ3 doesn't. In any case, I'd just use whichever Strike Rank system you prefer and adapt as you go on.

I don't generally play CoC and have never run it, but RQ Bestiary creatures should work well. You might need to work out the SAN Loss for seeing some of the non-mundane creatures and can ignore Hit Locations, but everything else should work OK.