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On 1/3/2019 at 5:00 PM, Sir_Godspeed said:

Haven't the point that Ostrich Riders do best as skirmishers been made like six or seven times now? Is there anything more to squeeze out of that?

Some people don't want to listen, to make a point ...

Thanks - I'll add this to the Big Rubble as soon as I can, probably some time next week.

Maybe the Spirit World is the Underworld, at least in parts.

I see the Spirit Plane as connecting with all the other Planes, Mundane Plane, Hero plane and God Plane. Once you reach the Inner World then you have accessed the Underworld, or the Sky or wherever else Spirits go to when they die.

On 12/30/2018 at 3:45 PM, soltakss said:

How many Beggars Begging or Broos a-Humping?

None, apparently, probably for the best.

You can run a RQ game using RQC, but would have more options and flexibility with RQG.

Having said that, the games are so compatible that if you add Passions and Rune Pools from RQG, use Multispell as a Stackable 1 Point Spell and add a few odds and ends, you pretty much get the RQG experience with RQC. The only thing that is drastically different is Character Generation, and of course the colour artwork but we are getting close to Spanish Inquisition territory. Oh, and Runes ...

1 hour ago, jajagappa said:

I received both yesterday.

Likewise. Have downloaded it and it looks even better than the original. I do like the cover pictures of both Borderlands and RQ Companion.

It looks as though these should have been picked up.

Drive Chariot is clearly Drive [Chariot] with the brackets missed off, each drive [Vehicle Type] starts at 05 and is increased separately.

Art is a generic skill, so each Art[Art] starts at 00, so Art [Sculpture] and Art [Painting[ both start at 00 and are increased separately.

Same for game, it is generic and each starts at 15, so Game [Duck Golf] and Game [Elfball] both start at 15 but increase separately.

I don't know about Evaluate or Farm, as I haven't seen the different references.

Anything that contradicts previous canon is a retcon.

It has always happened in Glorantha, since the very early days. If you read some of the early Wyrms Footnotes articles, you see that the names of Deities have been changed and what they do has been changed, even parentage has been changed. 

Does it matter? Yes and No. Yes, because people buy into a particular version of events and don't like it when it changes. No, because that is the kind of thing that fires up religious debate in the real world, so could well do the same in Glorantha.

For me, these retcons are the same as a Glorantha Hero going on a HeroQuest and coming back with a new insight into a deity. His followers are going to believe that and follow him, other people won't care or will stick to their previous ways and think of the Hero as a heretic or just plain wrong. In a Polytheistic setting, there is a lot of differences in how a certain Deity is worshipped.

So, just treat them as a different way of looking at the Deities concerned and stick to your preferred way if that's what you like.

On 12/27/2018 at 12:53 AM, Hzark10 said:

If the gm does not challenge that knight with scenario hooks, then he is letting a player get away with something.

Personally, I stopped thinking in terms of "letting a player get away with something" years ago.

RPGs are just games, for everyone to enjoy, I don't really care, as a GM, whether Players are using the rules to the max, or concentrate on roleplaying, or their PC's goals, or just turn up to play a game. Whatever makes it fun for everyone is good to me.

20 hours ago, Tindalos said:

Agreed. especially given that, if I recall correctly, the Guide to Glorantha was intended to be the basis of everything going forward and be the final authority. It no longer being canon when it describes Elmal and Kargzant as the Sun Gods of the Orlanthi and Pure Horse People (With no mention made of the Pentans following Yelm or Yu-Kargzant) is a bit unfortunate in that regard.

The Guide to Glorantha does not cover things in depth, it only provides a superficial coverage of many things.

I would expect that some subjects would get a more complex/in depth coverage in future supplements.

So, a Pentian supplement would explore the different Pentian deities and how they relate to each other and to other sun deities, for example.

I see Yamsur as Yelm's Man in Genert's Garden, a local Sun God. As the Son of Yelm, he would have importance anyway.

2 minutes ago, Scout said:

I think you're both right

And that, in a nutshell, is the God Learners' Secret

5 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

But... one thing here is that most people were trained to use their right hand, so even left handed swordsmen probably fought "rightie"

The fellow who betrayed the Spartans at Thermopylae was left-handed and wasn't allowed to fight in the phalanx. There is also a castle in Scotland where the spiral staircases go the wrong way, as the people in the Castle were normally left-handed.

5 hours ago, Atgxtg said:

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I will have to learn how to do the multiple quotes with my comments in between.

Put your cursor in between the sections you want to break and do two carriage returns. That should divide the quote into two sections, like I just did with your quote.

Or just highlight the text to be commented and press the Quote Selection button that magically appears. It also quotes quotes, which is really handy.

9 hours ago, jeffjerwin said:

That's interesting. Note that in (some of) the God Learner/Heortling texts, AFAIK, Yelm/the Emperor was an appointee of the Celestial Court, and that is where he ruled, in the Perfect Palace. If so, Yamsur was the original emperor...

As the original emperor was Aether Primolt, that makes Yamsur Aether, which is highly unlikely, as Yamsur is then his own grandfather. Yelm was the Second Emperor, after Aether Primolt, Aether Primolt the Fire/Sky representative in the Celestial Court.

I think what that means is that in Sea/Fire Season Yelm's path goes from East to West, but more northwards in the Sky, but in Dark/Storm Season the path is more southwards in the Sky, but still travels from East to West. Presumably in Earth Season it is bang overhead, so maybe that should be Fire Season, I don't know.

3 hours ago, Darius West said:

Well I would very much like to get hold of that info.  I have seen your Big Rubble map.  The building scatter is accurate?  Good to know.

As accurate as I could make it, based on various maps.

This is why I like the way that Revolution D100 does skills. You have a kill of Perform and then Traits of Act, Feign Death or Voice Mimicry, Stealth could have Traits of Shadowing, Hide in Plain Sight, Move in Cover and so on. It saves having a really long skills list on a character sheet as well.

My map of the Big Rubble has the Blind King' Castle detailed, from one of Ian Thomson's P&BR Companions. Some of the buildings are named on the map, but no descriptions are given.

Keep it simple, keep it quick and keep it exciting.

Don't get bogged down in minutiae of rules, don't spend 4 hours on Character Generation, don't use a beginning scenario that has a lot of complexity and needs experienced roleplayers. Don't put things into the scenario that need them to search every inch of a wall, for example.

If they are used to playing Video Games, then use some of that imagery. If they like certain styles of TV Show then use that imagery as well.

Be gentle with them. There is nothing more off putting than "You get an arrow on your eye and are killed" in the first scene. If a PC dies, then make it memorable.

The new version of RuneQuest details what amount of land, or its equivalent, is needed to support a household.

I think RQ3 had a table that showed typical income for various levels of wealth, which might be useful.

6 minutes ago, jeffjerwin said:

The female equivalent of Khan is Khatun or Khanum.

Thanks. I thought that Hatun, pronounced similarly to Khatun but with a normal H not an an aspirated one, just was a title for "Woman".

I hadn't heard of Khanum.

16 hours ago, Kloster said:

I've just checked ... and I was wrong. Limbs are arms and legs. Head, chest and abdomen are a different rule and you were right, Harmast should have 1 remaining hit points.

Not much of a comfort when he has had his head chopped off, though.

21 hours ago, jeffjerwin said:

I always thought that was Lunar propaganda, right?

😮

How many Beggars Begging or Broos a-Humping?