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12 hours ago, scott-martin said:

So what good news did the "lightbringer" missionaries carry? Just IFWW?

In my opinion, they did what Harmast continued to do, spread the word about their myths to everyone they met. Sometimes, someone said "Yeah, we know that one, but we also know about this myth" and the myths were built up over the years. They  met Dara Happans and equated Yelm with the Evil Emperor and Rebellious Terminus with Orlanth, for example, by comparing the myths.

It's great that third-party companies are doing offers like this. It means that there is a popular market for RuneQuest/Gloranthan things.

Now, I know that this kind of thing is very niche, but there are a number of other things that make me feel that RuneQuest/Glorantha is not just about the roleplaying rules/supplements. We have miniatures being KickStarted, various wooden trackers, customised dice and so on.

It looks very healthy at the moment.

1 minute ago, scott-martin said:

I wonder what the pre-Sunstop LBQ looked like before being incorporated into the God Project

There wasn't one.

Harmast bolted the LBQ together from a set of myths that he played around with when HeroQuesting. His was the first LBQ to be performed since the original.

Even the stages had to be put together. For example, there was no complete Journey West, there were just fragmentary Myths.

Thanks for posting this.

On the one hand, ooh those look lovely.

On the other hand, $1125 equates to about 626 pounds, plus postage, ouch!

If I had a spare 600-odd plus postage then I might think about it.

In any case, it would come in handy to protect myself when my wife found out how much I had spent on it!

2 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

Yeah, that would seem to fit in with thier world view. When dead an elf is considered "mulch" and is used to support and strengthen the Adlryami in another way. 

In Babylon 5, the Soul Hunters were an Order of aliens that captured and preserved the souls of the great as they died, but one member of the Order just couldn't wait that long and hastened the deaths.

Some rogue Aldryami might do exactly that, hasten the deaths of Aldryami, so they can turn them into mulch and eat them, or just skip the mulchy bit. 

And, Darius, yes, mulchy is a word now.

3 hours ago, Darius West said:

Buffoonly?  That isn't a word. 

It is now!

3 hours ago, Darius West said:

As to how someone gives birth to a young adult, well, that would likely require an egg rather than some sort of mammalian birth process. The fact that there was no need for a harvest suggests that the Sunstop wouldn't have lasted a full Season in "real time".

My impression was that the Sunstop lasted for an indefinite amount of time, as time also stopped. Arkat was raised by Elves, but I am of the opinion that he was not a baby when the Elves took him, instead he was partly grown. However, I have no evidence to back that up, as it is just my opinion.

The Blue Moon is classically invisible, so no. However, the Blue Streak happens when it falls through Magasta's Pool, so yes.

I would say that if it could be seen then it would be visible both day and night. Maybe Blue Moon Trolls and various mystics or magicians can see the Invisible Blue Moon.

It's an interesting idea that the Golden Sun Dragon, or Dragon Emperor, was an EWF mystic who became a Dragon. I am not sure if that was the case, though. When it passed the Ten Tests, it is commented that it did so without having hands to do something and so on, if it had been an EWF Mystic, then it would have had hands and would have been able to fit the clothes. 

The Dragon Emperor was Emperor of Dara Happa, as it passed all Ten Tests. This means that it was an incarnation of Yelm and so became the Draconic Part of Yelm. Whether it was always the Draconic Part of Yelm that allowed it to become Emperor or the Draconic Part of Yelm manifested after it became Emperor is moot, to a certain extent.

It was definitely worshipped by the Dara Happans, as they always worship their Emperors. It still receives worship and gives out Runemagic, as the Sun Dragon is worshipped in Pavis as the God of Flying Creatures who want to be Yelmites (Presumably except Griffins, who worship King Griffin). I would expect that Sun Dragon and King Griffin would be rival cults, to a certain extent.

In my last Gloranthan campaign, Mello Yello incarnated the Sun Dragon and went against the Red Emperor, who was planning a Sun Dragon utuma ritual to rid himself of all the baggage that had happened, but Mello intercepted the utuma, sacrificing himself and leaving the red Emperor standing, he then became the Dragon Emperor and the Red Emperor exploded. I am not sure whether that is canon, though.🙂

5 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Does this mean that once you  have sacrificed for the spell, you have to then perform this ritual before using it? Or, do temples typically have a pre-prepared sacred location that can immediately be used if you acquire the spell there?

I think the location has to be sanctified before you can use the spell, so you are setting up a sacred destination point for the spell. 

Temples could well have a pre-prepared place for you to use. In RQ2, the Lunars filled the Orlanth temple in Pavis with sand, to stop Orlanthi using Guided Teleport to return there.

5 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Can you repeat the ritual as often as desired to set alternative destinations?

I think so, but I would play that this moved the location to the new one. You cannot have different locations to Teleport to, in my opinion, unless you do this using a HeroQuest or something similar.

5 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Does the location have to already be sacred to Orlanth, or can any location be made sacred, such as through a Sanctify spell?

No, the spell sanctifies the location.

5 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Can the spell be traded using Issaries magic, and if so can the recipient use the original caster's locations, or do they have to make their own?

All spells can be traded.

I would play that the use of the spell just uses the current sanctified area, as you are not trading the whole spell, just a use of the spell.

All of the above is in my opinion, of course.

13 hours ago, pansophy said:

Would the OGL on one page of a document containing the cards be sufficient?

That would be a question for Paolo, I think.

I'd say Yes, but I don't own Revolution D100.

There was an excellent Lodril writeup in a Zine somewhere, which gave him a lot of magic. Caladra & Aurelion, specifically Aurelion, grants Fertility magic to enrich the soil.

1 hour ago, almenac said:

Mythras pros:

* Unrestrictive career system
* Cool and deadly combat system 
* Organic character growth
* Decades worth of combatible material from d100 world

Mythras cons:

* No special abilities like powers, feats or edges. Could this be modeled with Gifts?
* Too deadly?
* Might be difficult to model scifi concepts like droids and AI 

You can use Special Abilities from Legend for powers, feats and edges. 

Mythras is as deadly as you want it to be. In a SciFi setting, stock up on Medikits and so on and you can treat any wound but a fatal one, in fact you might use a Medikit to stabilise a Fatal Wound and then require surgery to downgrade it. 

I model AIs as NPCs with skills. They have access to a lot of data, but, in essence, they have skills that they can roll to do things. Droids just work as normal, they might have higher Hit Points, depending on how you see them, or they might be really sensitive to damage, whichever you prefer. Again, they have their own skills and abilities, just like any PC.

I have written a Legend SciFi system, based on my RQ Scifi rules, and they seem to hang together nicely.

I haven;t played GURPS or Savage Worlds, so cannot answer those.

If you have to spend a whole season training a skill, then I would expect few players would choose that option. Especially when skills can be increased through experience rolls. 

Personally, although I see why the "One scenario per Season" guideline has been introduced, it isn't something I would adhere to in my games.

All kind of Chaos like to eat Elves.

Strictly, according to the rules, Elves are vegetarian cannibals, so Elves like to eat Elves. Personally, I treat that as Elves eat plants and are plants themselves, but you never know.

On 1/16/2019 at 10:31 PM, pansophy said:

Now, I think I can make the Strike Rank Tracker available, but I am not sure about the Cards as they include all of the rules. Paolo, what do you say?

In theory, and I am not Paolo, the rules are covered by the OGL, so if you put the whole OGL on each card, then you should be OK. 🙂

Perhaps understanding the true meaning of the difference between a silent movement helps you along the road to Illumination.

4 hours ago, Sir_Godspeed said:

I wonder how the sable riders avoid getting poked by their mounts' horns if they rear their heads.

Training

1 hour ago, Joerg said:

The Sky Dome is a perfect hemisphere 7000 miles across and 50 miles high.

As a Maths Graduate, I must say "Does not Compute!"

1 hour ago, Joerg said:

"The Sky Dome is a perfect hemisphere 7000 miles across and 50 miles high."

Now that is a Riddle.

3 minutes ago, Steve said:

The planets are on the Sky Dome, right?

That is debatable, but we'll say yes for the time being.

The Moon, for example, isn't on the Sky Dome, but might not be a planet.

3 minutes ago, Steve said:

So are the planets tiny (compared to RW planets), or is there something else going on here in terms of how big things appear on the Sky Dome?

These are small, those are far away ...

Templars - All of them

Militiamen - Not sure, maybe the same proportion as are initiates across the board, maybe 20% or 30%

2 minutes ago, Joerg said:

The Gift Carriers of the Sending Gods never hunted down the last God Learners.

I don't think that is big enough!

As the actress said to the Bishop ...

1 minute ago, Joerg said:

Guided Teleport is great -  it returns you to the temple where you sacrificed for the spell from anywhere in the Middle World.

How does that get you across the ocean?

Spell trading or sorcerous teleport.

4 hours ago, Darius West said:

Viewing the Sun Stop as being an event outside of time is an interesting and plausible spin on the event. 

My view is that the Sun Stop broke the Compromise, or snapped bits of it.

4 hours ago, Brootse said:

What a great thread! Gorgeous pics!

Yes, I agree. Martin doesn't think so, as he is enormously self-critical, but we know better.