Nick Brooke

Updated again on 29 November: now contains 970 entries. Brace for incoming WYFA graduate pieces!

Don't sweat it. Convenient access to cheap Resurrection spells is a game fiction to make RuneQuest playable, given the ever-present risk of critical hits etc. If every NPC in the world had the same range of powers and easy access to Resurrection as player characters do, the world would rapidly become ridiculous. (Compare any MMO game on the market: many quest stories would simply break if NPCs could do what PCs routinely do) I wouldn't waste any time writing contrived and convoluted explanations. If it ever comes up in play, just say no: the local Chalana Arroy priestess can't Resurrect anybody just now, as she's already spent her Rune points for this season healing sick kids. If you have players who like to niggle away at convenient game fictions so as to make the setting appear ridiculous, throw flaming sky-llama invasions at them until they settle down. (They'll get upset because those aren't in the rules. Good. That's the point)

I don’t see a problem: two recent JC releases were a setting plus a book of scenarios for that setting (Korolan Islands & Fires of Mingai). I’d just take extra care to be sure that the adventure stands on its own, since it’s coming out first, and from what you’re saying that isn’t an issue. One thing to bear in mind is that sales of “sequels” are usually lower every time. Not everyone who buys Book One will necessarily pick up Book Two. If they’re a single volume, though, that’s not so much of an issue…

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Part of it has been published in the RQ Starter Set. The rest is “coming soon,” as they say.

That's a gorgeous cover, Paul!

The same’s true of the that turns up in my scenario The Duel at Dangerford. If I had to create an entire magic system for Lunar demonology in order to justify one Harryhausen monster turning up for my scenario’s boss fight, I’d have said “Sod this” and done something else instead.

I get the impression that's simply not the kind of demon this sorcerer knows how to summon. It's like asking "What if the Storm Voice wanted to summon a Wind Fist that didn't violently punch people, but was a skillful painter instead?" When you're writing a NPC in a scenario, you aren't ever required or expected to flesh out an entire variant magic system in the process.

Updated on 21 November with another Holiday Dorastor release: Leon Kirshtein & Simon Phipp's Moon Elves. A guide to the enigmatic Moon Elves, including a gazetteer of their groves on the Red Moon, stats, magic (including seven “dances”), a scenario and a heroquest. $6.00 for 43 pages (PDF). And speaking of adventures that take place on the Red Moon, here's a sneak peek at something coming your way soon... (Cover art by John Sumrow; illustrated by Linnea Mast, Dario Corallo and Katrin Dirim; maps and plans by Matt Ryan and Nick Brooke)

If you're a Carmanian, the top tier of their religion is essentially dualist / Manichaean, with an opposition between Idovanus the Wise Lord and Ganesatarus the Father of Lies, the Evil One. Outside of Carmania, he isn't widely known. Gloranthans aren't as absolutist about these things as you might think (absent God Learners; and the Carmanians hated the God Learners). There isn't a "Lie" Rune, so there isn't a generally-agreed Runic Owner of the concept of Lying. (Trickster has that Lie Rune spell, of course, which might point you in a certain direction; and Lanbril has a lot of useful deceptive magic. But did they invent / own "lying"? Possibly not)

Absurdly minimalist. We know that Yelmalians are happy to work with Humakti, and vice versa. There's your Bladesharp. (And Bladesharp works on "any cutting, stabbing or hacking weapon." How exactly are you wielding your spear? That may be the problem)

Have you somehow not understood what this thread is talking about?

Duh. Yanafal Tarnils = Eurmal, obviously. (He’s a killer, with a Death Rune he stole from its owner, who twists Truth)

RQ Glorantha Bestiary, p.82 Red Book of Magic, p.33

Updated again on 14 November: now contains over 950 entries. The November 2022 "Write Your First Adventure" workshop is underway, so we can look forward to a big content drop and a new bundle after the month ends. And a quick heads-up: this version of the Catalogue is now over two years old, and I intend to stop updating it in the New Year. My current plan is to launch a new version in 2023 (keeping the same low price and regular updates), perhaps with some extra bells and whistles.

From memory, issue 18 or 19. Greydog Special or Upland Marsh Special. It’s dead good!

I don’t see how you could have missed what he was asking for.

Can you explain the problem? Ian was asking for ideas he could use in his book, you contributed an idea, and you were credited in the book when he used it. Unless there’s more to the situation than meets the eye, I don’t see what the issue is.

Hi, @Jex - just posting to confirm everything David says. I’m a Greydog Clan member, we are next-door neighbours of the Lonendi, and I have absolutely no idea what goes on in Ten Spears Village. Even if I did, I’d repurpose it for my own scenarios like a shot: that’s what we all did when we were creating RQ stuff back in the day. (I can’t remember which clan Steve Thomas used for his vampire scenario in Tales, maybe someone can check? Whichever it was, the only things we “know” about them are the things he made up for his scenario. That’s how it works) Also, clans can have multiple names, so if you say that’s the Raccoon Clan and I say they’re the Lonendi we could both be right. Tribes might have more or fewer clans than you read in any given census: this stuff changes rapidly (just look at the Colymar history in the GM Screen Pack Adventure Book). The “twenty-four tribes of Sartar” today aren't the same ones they were a few years ago. Finally, the most detailed clan of the Colymar Tribe is the Haraborn, and they’re explicitly fictional! tl/dr: write something cool, and we’ll love it! There isn’t a vast mass of Lonendi Lore you’ll be trampling on, and we want to see your stuff.

Sedenya’s equivalent piece is now the Red Emperor, just saying.

I noticed a Vadrus-worshipper in Greg’s early Harmast fiction, and we semi-soberly agreed that the God Learners must have decided in the Second Age that Vadrus had been “killed by Chaos in the Great Darkness,” and made it so.

Yes, but the point I'm making is that you have to be a really weird sort of Yelmalian to think: "If only my God hadn't suffered on the Hill of Gold in the Great Darkness! He's such a LOSER! Let's see if I can fix it by heroquesting to tell a Big Lie, so he never has to undergo the transformative experience that made him my personal saviour..."

I once wrote about a time-travelling Christianist heading back to Golgotha with a side-arm, a step-ladder and a claw-hammer to "fix" what went wrong with Christianity. That's the sort of person who'd heroquest for Yelmalio "to not be such a loser." Don't be that guy!