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So, we've got mile long dragons, a giant bat that flies and people are wondering about the physics of using a lance?

Mythras is not OGL and, I expect, never will be. As Loz and Pete span Mythras from RuneQuest 6, it is a very different beast from Legend, which was spawned from RuneQuest 5. I am sure they will tell you why Mythras is better than Legend. The beauty of Legend is that it is OGL and you can write scenarios and supplements using it, without asking for permission from anyone. Mythras has a different licencing model and you must ask TDM for permission to publish a Mythras supplement. Again, I am sure that Loz or Pete will explain the difference and why they have, quite reasonably, gone along that particular line. I am not a Moderator (Too much like hard work and nobody would trust me to do it anyway), but I wouldn't be surprised if the thread was closed, just because Mythras is not OGL and this would be better in the Legend forum.

Yes, as my Signature says, I am Simon Phipp and have been around for, well, a while. I first played RuneQuest in 1982 and, up to last week, played regularly. Hope to resume again very shortly. I wrote the Land of Ice and Stone supplement for Mongoose. Unfortunately, very few people seem to be interested in Old Stone Age roleplaying, which is a shame. I also wrote Merrie England supplements for Alephtar games (RuneQuest, BRP and Revolution, not Legend) and a few things in fanzines and so on. Not a lot, but enough to get started. Mongoose RuneQuest I (MRQI) was released as an OGL set of rules. All subsequent OGL d100 games are based on that OGL offering. In theory, Legend was based on Mongoose RuneQuest II (MRQII), which wasn't itself OGL, but Legend was released as OGL. So, OpenQuest, GORE, Renaissance and Revolution are all based on the MRQI OGL offering. Now, there may be some people who say that Mongoose was not entitled to release either MRQI or Legend under OGL, but it has happened and various games and supplements have been written for d100 OGL games. As for PI and Open Content, you do have to be very careful. I always check which parts of a supplement/rules book has been declared Open Content and which has not. I also am really careful over using certain terms, as terms like "Broo" were not covered under Open Content, so I wouldn;t produce stats for Broo under an OGL, I'd use Chaos Beastmen instead.

In a nutshell, yes. As Legend is OGL, you can use it, or parts of it, or whatever, in another OGL supplement. In fact, you should be able to use bits from various OGL works together, as long as you keep the various acknowledgments. You do not need to ask anyone for permisison to use the Legend rules in a supplement, whether Loz or Pete, Matt from Mongoose or whomever. All you need to do is to include the OGL wording and the relevant copyright wording and you are good to go. It's a shame that Mongoose have not continued with Legend, as I think it's a cracking set of rules.

Hair shirts sound a very Catholic thing to do, I wonder what the Puritan equivalent would be? MIssing Bible Practice, perhaps?

And, as we know, China's a bloody long way ...

So, a WWF mash-up with Steve Austin and Jane Austen taking on Cthulhu, Pride & Prejudice and Bionic Wrestlers, hmmm, not sure if even I could make that fly ...

Fair enough. OK, there's a start, no animals would eat his body, presumably because he isn't dead. So, look at other ways he isn't dead. Dress the corpse in nightwear and put it in bed, perhaps with a partner. Sit the corpse up and give it food and drink. Do not perform funerary rites. Stick him on a horse, propped up, and take him somewhere. All these things show he isn't dead. Sometimes, what happens in the normal world, outside the HeroQuest, is as important as what happens in the HeroQuest. Now, on the HeroQuest, what does it mean to be Dead? You are in the Courts of Silence, so make a noise, shout, sing, bang drums, anything to show you are not dead. Cut yourself to prove you are not dead, as you bleed. Prove that you are alive by showing your manliness/virility, show that you are capable of having sex. Break away from the Courts of the Dead - If you can walk through the wrong door then you must, by definition, be alive. Use Life/Fertility Magic As a bear, show that you are Sleeping, but that might come down to waking up, perhaps use Dream Magic to show that you are Dreaming, therefore Sleeping, therefore Not Dead Make the Court of the Dead into a Cave, Odayla's Cave, by bringing Odayla's cave into the Courts, choose a HeroQuest where Odayla Wakes Up and reenact it in this HeroQuest, thus putting your interpretation on top of the HeroQuest Use Eurmal to wake you up, perhaps by blowing a trumpet in your ear or splashing you with water/ale Don't forget that this is a heroQuest, so uses Magic and Myths. Logic and commonsense go out of the window. If the PC/Player has a good idea then it should work. After all, the alternative, logical, thing is "Well, he's dead so you can't bring him back, as he is not asleep" which is dull, boring and makes the HeroQuest redundant. The whole point of going on a HeroQuest is to do the impossible. You don't necessarily have to have a detailed template, other than "Odayla goes into the Underworld, proves that he is Asleep not Dead, Wakes Up and Returns to the Surface World". Everything else is just fluff, whether it's your fluff or the player's/PC's fluff.

Sounds interesting. One comment before I make some suggestions to your questions, many of the Underworld Journeys share things in common, so there's no harm in sharing things in the two quests. In fact, doing that makes it slightly easier for the players, as they can reuse things and it gives them a sense that they are becoming more experienced HeroQuestors. Having everything new every time you go on a HeroQuest can be a bit dull, as PCs love to use things they have done before. He's a Beast, so perhaps other Beasts? Yinkin on a HeroQuest, Hellhounds, Sky Bears (Dead of course), Lunars opposing Odayla? Add to that the "normal" deinizens of the Underworld, ghouls, ghosts, Dehori, demons, wraiths, chaos monsters, other HeroQuestors and so on. By waking up! Seriously, that might be the simple answer, if he can wake up, using some kind of roll, it proves he is not dead. Alternatively, what can the Living do that the Dead cannot? Can he show that he is breathing? Does he have vitality? Can he have sex? I wouldn't try and think of things that could work. Instead, I'd simply propose the situation/puzzle to the Player and let them work it out. If they can't think of anything, then drop some hints or say "Well, you stay dead, then", if they complain bitterly then drop some hints. If, however, they think of a good way of proving that they are not dead, then let them roll to see if it works, or just accept that it works and carry on.

Well, what do you know? 😉 Thanks for clarifying it.

I know it's a big book, but is Page 2019 accurate? Honestly, I would just assume that 2H Dagger-Axe is an exception to the general rule that 2H Weapons cannot be used when mounted. Keeps it nice and simple. I think you are over-thinking this. People on horseback have used lances for a long time, so I have no problems with lance being used in Glorantha. If they don't use stirrups then they use some other technique. Personally, I don't really care about what techniques people use to get certain effects.

We have a list of games that various players or the GM don't want to play, they currently include: Cthulhu Supers D&D Jane Austen I am sure the list will grow.

Normans often built a motte and bailey castle early on and them built a keep afterwards, so it is quite possible the same happened here.

It wasn't very clear, then, to be honest and I am still not sure if this is the case. That might give him a get out of jail free card, especially if the Doctor reports him to his superiors, only to be given a little chat explaining the facts of life.

There is a lot of confusion between the GM Screen Pack and the GM Book, probably because they both begin with GM. The GM Screen Pack looks like it contains a Screen (Which I will never use), some scenarios and a short version of the rules. The GM Book will contain long-awaited HeroQuesting rules. I am looking forward to the GM Book, but will buy the GM Screen pack if it comes out on PDF.

Sorry you feel like that. I find it a very useful site, with a lot of friendly and helpful people.

That wasn't clear. Also, the answer that was a question also had a link to something that was an answer.

It all depends on whteher you prefer the GM (poison) to roll against the player (CON) or the player (CON) to roll against the GM (Poison). Either way is fine by me, but I marginally prefer Poison to be Active and CON to be Passive,

So can an ogre.

Bestiary 2, or in the mud of the River of Cradles, take your pick.

I use Bullpen as a staging ground for Storm Bull Cultists. They gather into an army, attack the Footprint, all get killed and then the survivors return to the Bullpen, where they gather an army ...

Probably, or probably not. Yelmalians are tied to the Dara Happan way, as Yelmalio is the son of Yelm. The Red Emperor is the Dara Happan Emperor, so is the effective, but very far away, head of the cult. However, it probably varies by area. In Prax, the Yelmalians definitely helped the Lunars in the Cradle scenario and in the Sun County supplement. In the Dragon Pass area, they are probably neutral, but the Yelmalians of Alda Chur are probably friendly. In Balazar, the Yelmalian Temple in Elkoi is controlled by the Lunars, but the one on Dykene is very independent.

Do you have templates/examples of these? Maybe in Word, Google Docs or Open Office?

Oh, Monster Squad must be my favourite "Kids against Monsters" film. Highlights for me: The Dad explaining to his son that there's no such things as monsters in closets, while holding the door open to reveal the Mummy standing there shocked Dracula using his cane to make a coffin rise from the waters, only for the Creature from the Black Lagoon to appear beneath it, holding it up Dracula going through the police force like a hot knife through butter The girl performing a ritual to banish the Monsters, as she is a virgin, but it doesn't work. They can't understand how it didn;t work and double check, to be told something like "Oh, that one time with so-and-so, but that didn't count"

All Yelmalian Sun Dome Temples are autonomous, in that the Count rules the Sun County. They are mercenaries and hire soldiers out to certain people, not necessarily the highest bidders, but to like-minded people. They have a strong connection to the Lunars, as the Red Emperor is Emperor of Dara Happa and outranks all Yelmalians. In fact, any Yelm worshipper outranks all Yelmalians, so they don't like it when Dara Happan Yelm worshippers come to visit.