Runeblogger

Did you manage to get the troll queen’s magic item against Chaos? 🤔

Hi, I've played through the free demo of Six Ages: Lights Going Out, set during the Great Darkness, and here you can read about my (mis)adventures and first impressions of the game: https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/six-ages-lights-going-out-first.html

As for animal allies, they would act as their nature dictates. Only Nathem's shadowcat seems to be somewhat trained to follow Nathem's commands (to the extent to which anyone can give orders to a cat!), or be in some way loyal to him. Makario's snake and Cousin Monkey are fully intelligent beings, so they are like another non-player character. So for example, in combat Nathem could shout a command to his shadowcat to attack someone. You could rule the shadowcat then attacks on its Strike Rank +1 for the order. As for elementals and spirits, you need to cast a Control Cult Spirit or Control Elemental on them after summoning them in order to control them, and hope to overcome their POW so they are affected by the Control spell. Otherwise, they do what their nature dictates or maybe just go back to the spirit plane, as dictated by the MGF principle.

I haven't run it yet, but I think it is a fairly good scenario. Check out my review here: https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-white-upon-hills-scenario-for.html Have you run it? How did it go?

Well done, Lordabdul!!! ☺️👏👏👏

Where does the tribal king live?

I guess the Grazelands must be very similar to Prax, in the sense that the different Praxian tribes just go around and stay at the oasis or Zola Fel river valley as long as they can defend themselves from other tribes. And the vendref are like the Oasis Folk, who work for whatever Praxian/Grazelander clan is “in town” this season.

The art to which you refer on Jeff’s video about RQ combat had appeared already on some other video or post from last year. I think it is for the RuneQuest campaign book, and the art must be by Lionel Marty. (^_^) I love it!

Yes, that's easy enough. I'm considering adopting the slashing weapons bleed effect.

I know, it sounds like a rock band. 😛 I’m devising a scenario about Orlanthi who need to go into Telmori lands. The Six Sisters are hills between Prax and the Telmori lands where six different animal spirits can be contacted by shamans. According to the article in Wyrms Footnotes #15 one of them is a female wolf spirit. All seem to have been awakened centuries ago by the EWF. What relationship do you think there is between that big wolf spirit and Telmor, the wolf god? Do you think any Telmori shamans negotiate with her? In my scenario, she might be the source of the Control Wolf Spirit spirit spell, if you first pass some spiritual test. 🐺

Aside from enjoying the con, did you get any news about upcoming Chaosium products? 🙂

A Sharp have shared the trailer of their new videogame, which they have announced will be available this summer. I'm pretty hyped right now. I can't wait to play it.

That's also what many samurai clans did during the Sengoku period, when caught between two powerful warlords. Half of the clan devoted themselves to one warlord, half to the other, so the clan would go on whoever won the war. It must have happened in other parts of the world as well.

Hi, here's a review of this D100 scenario by the author of Vaesen and Tales from the Loop: 😊👇 https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/review-of-red-star-scenario-for-odd-soot.html

It looks like the first batch is already written. Jason posted this on Facebook:

As I understand it, a Telmori humakti is an initiate of both Telmor and Humakt, and only her initiation into Telmor (which comes first) is what carries the curse. If you are not initiated into the cult of Telmor, you are not a Telmori.

Thank you! So uninitiated Telmori children do not turn into wolves on Wilddays.

This is becoming an interesting thread and I'm getting ideas for a possible scenario. But I have to ask: when a Telmori and another human have a child, is the child always a cursed Telmori? Only when the mother is a Telmori?

BTW, there's a "Let's read" thread on Hero Wars over at RPG.net, with people discussing some details about QuestWorlds.

I think this picture is from one of the two scenario packs published so far by Chaosium: The Starter Set is also full with pictures of NPCs and streets of Jonstown, which help visualize the typical Sartarite urban environment.

And here's a review of Fires of Mingai, the 2nd volume in the series with 4 scenarios: 😉 https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/review-of-fires-of-mingai-hero-wars-in.html

It's something related to Glorantha or RuneQuest:

Great idea, I would probably offer a range of possibilities, f.ex.: - During the spirit combat (shaped as the shaman trying to convince the animal spirit to stay), if Vishi gets a critical success and wins the combat, he convinces the animal spirit to go back to its body (provided Vishi has healed the animal’s head back to its body with either Heal-6 or Heal Wounds) so the animal comes back to life! - With a special success and winning the combat, the animal spirit is moved by Vishi’s plea, and decides to stay in crystal or fetish (matrix), but before that it summons a nearby living High Llama to go and find Vishi so it can be his new mount. - By just winning the combat, he convinces the spirit to stay in a crystal or fetish. - If Vishi loses the combat, the animal spirit is not convinced and goes on to its afterlife. - If Vishi loses the combat and gets a fumble in the process, the animal is outraged by Vishi’s proposal, and now all High Llama spirits see Vishi as a transgressor for a year or until he somehow attunes for that.

I love Bridgett’s energy, that was an enjoyable interview to listen to. And she ended up interviewing you both as well! 😆

I would say that, if priests can ask cult spirits to teach spells to initiates, zzaburi can coerce/force spirits to teach spirit magic to their fellow citizens (although perhaps they hate doing that because sorcery is always the only worthy source of magic in their eyes).