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If it is a true demisphere, then it must be thousands of kilometres high at its peak. However, if it is just a flat sky that curves down to the earth at the edges, then it doesn't have to be very high at all. Do any mountains reach the Sky? I have a vague recollection that Cragspider's Castle touches the Sky, but could be wrong, I usually am. Kero Fin probably doesn't touch the Sky, for mythical reasons. Not sure about Top of the World, though. In any case, the Sky Dome should be higher than most mountains. If it is irregularly high, so has bumps and hollows, then it could be lower in places. Certainly it is lower at the edges, as it reaches down to touch the Pillars at North, South, East and West.

Thanks - Now that I am aware of this map, I'll use more things based on it. I don't have an eye for detail and rarely draw local maps for my campaigns, so I love it when people draw local maps that I can use.

I suppose it's a matter of taste and preference. If you like the idea that every wound causes blood loss and the cumulative effect can cause problems, then use the death by a thousand cuts approach. If you like the 80s Action Hero approach where Arnie/Sly/Brucie just laugh off flesh wounds, then go for the One Hit approach.

For Initiates, I am fine with getting them back every Season, as that is better than they had in previous versions of RQ. For Rune Levels, I would play that they should be able to get them back due to their closer relationship with their deity.

It is the Nysalor Riddle for Move Silently, just a play on the order of words. "When is a door not a door? ...", but I am not sure which riddle that would be.

I suppose it all depends on when Yelm was static. Was he static before Umath ripped Sky and Earth asunder, or was he static afterwards? If he was static before, then Umath's act might have forced Yelm to move, perhaps moving towards the torn Earth. If he was static afterwards, then he might have moved when Orlanth killed him. However, my feeling is that Yelm did not stay in the same place for the whole of his existence. Maybe Yelm the Emperor did, but Yelm the Sun Disc may well have moved. After all, one of his myths is the Burning of Mallia, before Mallia became part of the Unholy Trinity, so did that happen in Yelm's Palace, or was Yelm moving around at that point? Xentha already existed, but not in the Sky. Before Yelm was killed, she was a Goddess of Night in the Underworld, probably one of the many deities keeping the Underworld dark. Only after Yelm was killed and the darkness Spirits were forced from Wonderhome did Xentha slide up the Sky. After Yelm was killed, there was no Night and Day, there was Night. Night and day happened after time began. Now, some can argue that the other Solar deities might have caused some Day, but there would have been battles between Night and Day at that point, so it would not have been a regular thing. As Xentha travelled through the Sky and the Solar Deities were slowly destroyed, Night became more and more powerful. This was the Lesser Darkness, after all.

Does it contain a cabaret?

What I normally do is: For a contest with 1 PC and a group of NPCs, the best NPC rolls to see if they can beat the PC For a contest with 1 NPC and a group of PCs, each PC can roll to see if they can beat the NPC That way, the PCs have an advantage. I know that it breaks the rule that the rules work the same for PCs as NPCs, but it is more satisfying for players.

The Red Emperor commits utuma to negate the sins of the Empire and the Red Moon gets torn apart by Dragons. Either the Red Emperor fumbled his roll, or the breaking up of the Red Moon was a natural consequence of his actions, allowing the Moon to change form into its next state.

Yes, it does. We used to call it AntiParry and we used it to emulate Lin Chun, from the Water Margin, in combat - he would fight normal soldiers, cutting them down with abandon (AntiParry), while not being hurt by them (Defense).

Without Chaos, Storm Bull loses much of his reasons for being.

I am a number of people ...

The classic answer, of course, is at castle Blue and when the Lunars killed Orlanth. Both cause the heroes and Gods to be active in Glorantha again. Of course, the Red Goddess proved her right to exist at Castle Blue and showed that the Compromise was not broken, merely amended.

It was originally in Wyrms Footnotes, but I can't remember which edition.

No. God Learners were a Malkioni religious movement that strove to examine every Malkioni belief and compare it to the Abiding Book, striking away beliefs that did not conform with the Abiding Book. They moved on to comparing the gods and goddesses, again striking away those found wanting. The God Learners passed with the ending of the Middle Sea Empire. Yes. Although they use new techniques, the Lunars have inherited some techniques from the God Learners and have reawakened more. They amend myths and blend in the Red Goddess into other myths, making it appear that She has always been there, or is an incarnation of some belief. In the same way, the Red Emperor has proven to be, or wield, ancient powers, through HeroQuesting. He is the Dara Happan Emperor, the Paradisaical Aviator (??? Can't remember the exact term) and others. In my Glorantha, the Red Goddess is the Third Side of the Law Rune, with Malkion forming the base, Hrestol forming the right hand side and supporting the Red Goddess who forms the Left Hand Side. She is the Third Prophet of the Invisible God and has blended Malkioni Sorcery in with Lunar ideals. (OK, now the Red Goddess doesn't allow worshippers to manipulate Spirit Magic, but the statement still holds in my Glorantha). Her followers are very active HeroQuestors. She was an active HeroQuestor who wove herself into the fabric of Time and God Time, far more successfully than the God Learners ever did.

RQ2 Defense was a very abstract thing, involving moving about and being hard to hit. RQ3 Dodge removed the abstraction and made it a concrete thing. Personally, I liked RQ2 Defense and lamented its passing. It makes duels between masters interesting and also causes master swordsmen to cut through lesser fighters very easily, which reflects my personal taste. However, people who like very gritty combat might not find it to their liking. Just using Dodge = Defense x 2 should work, although that gives Soltak Stormspear a Dodge of 200%!

That's what Lefters are for - A Lance on each side, one held RH and one LH, aiiming at the same target. Simples.

Tens, maybe dozens - Lots. Honestly, I don't have sales figures for Magic World. It isn't really my cup of tea, really, no hit locations, variable armour and so on, but I get the feeling that as many people like it as, say, OpenQuest. Again, I have no sales figures for OpenQuest, so cannot justify anything I have said.

Many thanks for the link. I have saved it off and will resize and add as a background layer for my Big Rubble Map, so that I can add features from it later.

Yes, there were a lot of different statements from Greg, hence the term "Gregged". I am sure that we can all pick and choose from statements made over 40 years to support various arguments. Unfortunately, as he is sadly no longer with us, we cannot ask him what he meant. I am sure that those who worked closely with him have a deeper understanding of what he meant, but we are not always in that position. So, everyone, would it be possible not to use the "Greg said this" argument to support a case? Agreed, that could be said for absolutely everyone, as our ideas about Glorantha have evolved over the years. Shutting up now ...

And if Rick says it's canon, then it's canon, unless Jeff or David argue the point in some Chaosium Civil War.

I would love to see some of those in print. Maybe having the standard cult writeup in Gods of Glorantha, or one of the followups, then have local variations in Region supplements. So, have a writeup of Dara Happan Yelm in a Dara Happan supplement, to be compared with the current Pentian-style Yelm.

It's a shame, because it is a Catch-22 situation. Magic World isn't supported because there clearly isn't a demand, as nobody applies for a Licence. People don't apply for a licence because there are upfront costs and the returns probably wouldn't be great. It may well be that posting in forums and on fan websites is the way forward for Magic World.

Is that all? 🙂

Usual suspects on both sides of the argument.