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Somebody posted an online tool to make Newspaper Headlines, but I have lost the link. It could have a picture and some text. You could use something like that to make a short obituary.

He is proud as Punch. When he became Orlanth the Ram, he tupped whoever Voriof's mother was and produced Voriof. Orlanth has many Aspects and Orlanth the Ram is just one of them. It's strange for us, for sure, but real life mythologies have many, many examples of deities taking animal form and having offspring. In Glorantha, Urox does it all the while, for example.

That is a complex one. If the situation changes, then the GM should make a decision based on that change. So, in your example, if I have 150% Sword Attack then I can split 75/75, normally, however in total darkness I am at -75% so only have a 75% attack chance and cannot split. If my Sword is 200%, then I have an effective 125% attack chance and can now split 65/60. If a light goes on after my first attack, do I suddenly gain +38 to my sword attack? Probably not, as I would rule that the light appearing is probably confusing, you have committed your attack and now can see, if you want to take advantage of the +38 then delay your attack to see what is happening. I would never apply the -75 to both splits, as that is over-harsh and unplayable. If I had Sword and attacked with left hand /right hand, then each sword attack should be at the -75 penalty. Again, if a light came on, the second attack would still be at the -75 penalty, unless the PC delayed, in which case the penalty would be nullified and the attack would be at full chance. If the light came on during the first attack, there is a case to argue that the second attack could be at full chance, as the attack has not yet been committed. Others are more complex. If I have a 98% Sword and am on a horse, I get +20, so can attack on 118%, so I can split at 59/59, but if I jump down off my horse between attacks, I lose the +20 and so cannot split the attack and lose the second attack? As a GM, I would rule that both attacks gain the advantage of the +20, as they were committed at that point. If I attack from behind, I get +20, so the 98% Sword can attack 2 people from behind. If the second person attacking turns around, I am not attacking from behind and lose the +20 so cannot split? Again, I would rule that the second attack was committed and so takes advantage of the +20. I am sure there are lots of similar examples.

I haven't seen any. I have a list of the times that Soltak Stormspear died and how he came back (Divine Intervention, Resurrection, etc) but I think I stopped when I reached 50, it isn't on the web though. You might be able to find obituaries on the web and take the format from those. Date of birth and death, how they died, whether they left any spouses/issue, a picture and a brief biography, that kind of thing.

Except you then get PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) or Shellshock, as it was sometimes known. Sure, you fought in the trenches and survived, so what can those fishmen do to you? Then you have a flashback, or hear a loud bang and it really affects you. Of course, in CoC, PTSD is just another form of insanity, so fits in pretty well.

Exactly - What could go wrong?

As a Glorantha fan, I would love to see a Deities Supplement for each of the Pantheons, so one for the Storm, Fire/Sky, Earth, Water, Darkness, Lunar, Chaos, Elf, Dwarf, Pamalt and so on. I would love to see all the deities, demiigods, Heroes and spirit cults written up, as well as Sorcery Schools, Animist Traditions and so on. Also, I would love to see the Lunar pantheon written up as Deities, with special abilities, rather than having the Phases of the Moon working as they seem to do now. I've never been a fan of "But, the Lunars are different", or "But, Moon Powers work differently to everything else".

As Joerg says, you need more than just a fire and fuel to make a wildfire. Wet or damp fuel stops the fire from spreading, as does still air. Orlanthi weather-workers can control wildfire by causing rain or by controlling the wind, blowing the fire back on itself. A full Oakfed Wildfire is exactly what is happening in California, including spawning elementals that jump between areas and spread the fire. Instead of heroic firefighters, Gloranthans have Ernaldans who throw earth on the fire, Orlanthi who blow the fire back or make it rain, Shamans with a big Extinguish spell and Lodrili who just say "Now, now, just stop that nonsense and come hide in this jar, will you".

There is a Castlemaine XXXX advert that goes along similar lines. Someone drops a case of beer tins into a river and it starts ti floats away. "You'd better go get them", his mate says. "What about the crocs", he says, looking a bit worried. "Naw, mate, there aren't any crocs in that river, ...", his mate replies, so the man heads off into the river, "... the sharks ate 'em", his mate continues, quietly.

Some dinosaurs are the children of Maran Gor, other, individual ones, are Dragonewts gone wrong.

They can eat it, though, but probably can't digest it. Again, they can eat it, but it would pass through their digestive tract unharmed and undigested. They absolutely do eat chaos critters. I can't remember the source, but I am sure they eat broos for some ritual. Good point, but, as Derak the Dark Troll was fond of saying "Twice nothing is nothing", when holding an iron sword.

The trouble with the Entekosiad, in my opinion, was that is was a flawed thesis trying to prove something that was not true. I believe that it was trying to prove that Entekos was Ernalda, but I could be completely wrong. It had wonderful myths, loads of HeroQuesting stuff and so on, but was designed to be fundamentally flawed. Having said that, it is a great read.

Welcome to Glorantha and I hope you enjoy it for many years to come. Yes, this has always been the case. dragon Pass is the centre of many of the things of Glorantha. It was the seat of the Storm Gods, the site of the Dragonkill and where the original RQ Campaign was set. Areas around Dragon Pass have been explored, but nothing to the depth of the Orlanthi and their Pantheons. Even Peloria, which is probably the next best explored area, has much less material. If you include Theyalans and Pelorians togther, then, yes, absolutely, this is where most of the things are happening/have happened. Orlanthi lands are important and the Lunar Empire is important. Other areas are less important. Prax and Balazar have been published, some areas in the West have been touched on. Other areas have been sketched out, but nowhere near as detailed as Dragon Pass, Peloria and, maybe, Prax. The Monomyth has a varied past in Glorantha. On the one hand, the events of the Monomyth happened and you can HeroQuest to them to prove that they happened. On the other hand, the Monomyth is a Frankenstein's Monster, stitched together from the Myths and Stories of many deities. Where bits contradict each other, they are left out. Where a Myth support it, the Myth is included, where it does not support it, the Myth is left out. Did other things happen outside the Monomyth? Absolutely. Did the deities of the Monomyth do other things that are not described in the Monomyth? Of course. Does the Monomyth answer all the questions about Gloranthan Mythology? Not at all. Can we discount the Monomyth entirely? Of course not, at it happened. A lot of people have written background that deliberately goes against the Monomyth or confuses events, changes names and so on. This is fine from an artistic point of view, but an absolute nightmare for GMs and Authors, who have to unpick everything and relate it back to the Deities. A lot of people became bored with Prax, years ago, and are bored with Orlanthi now, so you are absolutely right. The trouble is, when people publish material for other areas of Glorantha, they just don't sell as well, from what I have learned from conversations at conventions. So, you can publish something for, say, Kralorela and sell a thousand copies, or for Dragon pass and sell ten thousand copies (I am making these figures up). No, you have hit the nail on the head, as we say.

Yes, why not? It might be a good tactic, as the Spirit might run if its Magic Points are reduced quite a bit.

Saw the article earlier this week and thought of Mostali. Always thought that Mostali waste would be in cubes, just for ease of stacking. I am sure that one of the Mostali Castes has magic to crystallise the stuff, if needs be, or to compress it into one big cube for reprocessing.

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I did refer to the post in question. As for your confusion about what i was referring to, now you understand how I felt when I received your supposedly rhetorical question. Oh dear, here we go again ...

Because mining is dangerous, working in a salt mine is bad for your joints, skin and lungs, salt miners die early. Slaves are more expendable than citizens. Also, slaves are cheap, all you need is food, drink, a place to sleep and a good whip, cuts down on costs. Really, the best way to mine salt is to squirt water into seams and extract the brine. Zola Fel cultists could do that with their magic, or with Water Elementals.

One of our RQ2 locations was The Acid Pits. The only way up was via an Illuminated flying griffin who riddled the PCs as he carried them up to the entrance. in hindsight, that should have been a Sphinx.

I think that Gloranthan Plateaus are pretty much the high mesas, tabletop mountains and so on, but on a bigger scale. Exactly.

Looking at his Wikipedia Page, he wrote an awful lot of good stuff, outside of his films. Anyone who could write the book and screenplay for both Marathon Man and Princess Bride deserves a lot of praise.

Forgot that one, yes, obvious now.

Because they weren't really there, or they were.

There are rats and mice, because Orlanthi use Shadowcats to keep grain stores free of them. Trolls have giant ants and cockroaches, so there could well be smaller versions. Gophers exist in Pent, the Gord'Un are Gopher Hsunchen. Weevils were associated with the navy, but Gloranthan navies are not very well formed. perhaps they are waiting for more ships to take to the waters. I can't think of any evidence for moles, but why not? I can see a PC on a chair with a crossbow, Jasper Carrott-style, waiting for a mole to appear one night. RQ3 had Insect Swarms, so presumably RQG has the same. I haven't checked the Bestiary in detail yet.

Yes, I think it would. Although the Carvetti are on the other side of the country, they might want to travel into the Great mire for some reason. The scenarios tend to me Angles vs Britons, but there's no reason you can't substitute another type of Briton for Angles, they would work just as well.