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    Platinum Best-Seller: A Rough Guide to Glamour

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    12 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

    Just purchased.  I'm sure I'll like it, but first impression is poor:

    What's with the lame PDF bookmarks? Six _GoBack?  That don't even lead to chapter headings?

    Hi, Rodney. I'm Nick - I did all the layout on the Rough Guide to Glamour. It's my first book, I'm an amateur fan publisher and you bought our book from a community content site, the Jonstown Compendium on DriveThruRPG. I understand you'd like it to have better bookmarks than some professionally-produced RPG corebooks. Is that right?

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    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

    in Glorantha

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    2 hours ago, Bran the Brainless said:

    information for the timeline came from a compilation from, King of Sartar, Guide to Glorantha, Glorantha Sourcebook, Timelines in current and previous Rq Rulebooks and notes on Sun County from Jeff (in a thread somewhere on here).

    asaik, it’s canon, but as is typical with the amount of published books, some dates do move around a little. I researched this to help with my campaign’s future event. So, unless the players do something spectacular/inept, I’ll be sticking along with it.

    Here's MOB's chronology (an extract from The Great Winter and the Time of Two Counts), with Second Moonbroth in Storm Season 1624.

     

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    Upland Marsh resourses

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    If you can find a copy, Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 was the Upland Marsh Special (published in 2000).
    Strapline: "Delecti the Necromancer. Vampires, Zombies, and Undead Monsters! And a few Ducks, too..."

    The Smoking Ruins : GM questions *SPOILERS*

    in RuneQuest

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    4 minutes ago, Sumath said:

    My two main issues with TSR are the festival at the end - it's a lot of description of things that NPCs are doing rather than any decision-making by the players. In other words, it's not role-playing. I'm going to have think of ways to make it interactive.

    I have a suggestion in one of the Appendices to The Duel at Dangerford -- one of my groups brilliantly subverted the scenario's attempt to railroad them. Check it out, maybe?

    (My scenario includes nine pages of playtest feedback on The Smoking Ruin and a page of suggested chrome for The Dragon of Thunder Hills, in case you didn't know - I bunged them in as a freebie in a product that only GMs were likely to buy, to minimise the risk of spoilers. This seems like a good place to mention that)

    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/307504/The-Duel-at-Dangerford?affiliate_id=392988


     

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    Platinum Best-Seller: A Rough Guide to Glamour

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    1 hour ago, Grievous said:

    As always, great review, if one can call it that, as Andrew's reviews tend to veer more into the realm of proper art critique (and I use that term in the best sense here). They do justice to the product and they tell you something much more, too.

    Andrew's reviews have the remarkable quality of making authors feel that they were being even cleverer than they already knew they were. He is a very perceptive and insightful fellow.

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    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

    in Glorantha

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    7 minutes ago, g33k said:

    I'm always willing to vary my Glorantha, and let others vary theirs.  😁

    I do prefer to know when I am "varying my Glorantha," though; and I'd rather not vary it from sheer ignorance... 

    I'm sorry if my sheer ignorance offends you.

    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

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    2 hours ago, g33k said:

    THAT SAID... 2nd Moonbroth doesn't get a satisfying treatment in the RQG corebook.  I'd expect it to be a Big Thing for Praxians (and some Lunars).  Pages 43/44/45 should have the battle (if not 1625, then clearly 1624)  for characters to have participated in!  That it's missing suggests to me that the timing HASN'T actually been carefully considered.

    I could add these events as an alternative track for your adventurers' history in my Moonbroth book! Thanks for the suggestion! 

    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

    in Glorantha

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    I'm also relying on secondary sources (eg: MOB's updated Sun County history, which dates both Second Moonbroth and the sack of Pavis to Storm Season 1624). It seems easiest to say these events happened in the winter (campaigning) season in Prax from 1624/25, but if you want to squeeze everything into Sea Season 1625, be my guest. You know that I monkey around with the chronology as necessary in order to tell better stories, so just tell yourself I'm doing it here. No biggie.

    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

    in Glorantha

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    The sequence goes: the Second Battle of Moonbroth (in late 1624) is an overwhelming victory for the nomad army led by Argrath White Bull and Jaldon Goldentooth (and marked by yet another Sable Tribe betrayal, this time of the Lunars), after which (in early 1625 per RQG p.44) Argrath liberates Pavis.

    In the summer of 1625, King Argrath of Pavis marches on Sartar leading a nomad horde, but gets defeated by Lunar sorcery and retreats to Pavis. The Dragonrise happens after that, and everyone attributes it to Kallyr Starbrow, not to Argrath.

    I hope this helps.

    Jeff's said recently (private chat) that in one of his current campaigns that defeat in 1625 happened at Hender's Ruins, that Cwim was involved (the GSB is vaguer), and that this defeat is when Argrath realised he'd need his own organisation of battle-magicians as well as a honking great army if he ever wanted to go toe-to-toe against the Lunar Empire.

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    Storm Bull Shrines near the Zola Fel

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    16 hours ago, GAZZA said:

    Obviously I am free to scatter shrines wherever I like IMG, but are there are any canonically reasonably important shrines or temples to Storm Bull within, say, half a day or so from Corflu, heading up the Zola Fel towards Prax?

    Praxians are nomads who worship Storm Bull. Find a group of Praxians on a Storm Bull holy day, you’ll probably find a Storm Bull worship ceremony (or failing that, a bunch of people who can point you towards one). Their “shrines” are portable medicine bundles, not fixed sites / locations, because they’re nomads. You’ll almost always find an animal nomad tribe at any oasis in Prax, and you’ll usually find them on any large enough patch of fertile ground that hasn’t been grazed bare lately - just look for a big herd of animals and head towards them.

    If you’re specifically looking for Sartarite, non-Praxian Storm Bull rites, you’ll be out of luck until you reach Pavis County (settled by Sartarites). How easy it is to find Storm Bull rites if they’re still under Lunar occupation is up to you (I don’t know when your game is set, but in RuneQuest Classics the Lunar Empire still occupies civilised Prax and Pavis up until 1625 or so)

    Succubae in RQG

    in RuneQuest

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    1 minute ago, smiorgan said:

    Sorry people. Succubae is not the "joke" version ... Both succubus/ succubi and succuba/ succubae are legit Latin words, with succuba probably being the older form.

    I didn’t realise you were only looking for resources in Latin. ( There’s 400x as many in English)

    Succubae in RQG

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    I was responding to this, not to your root post: I thought it was clear in context. You seemed to have some difficulty finding old threads, and were using an idiosyncratic spelling. My bad.

    On 4/5/2020 at 3:14 AM, Sir_Godspeed said:

    Wasn't there a thread about this some time ago? I think someone mentioned Fonrit in particular in the context of such beings.

    Cheers, Nick

    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

    in Glorantha

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    1 hour ago, g33k said:

    Is it the case that -- for all "Praxian" Nomad Tribes, whatever Beast they herd -- the majority of the Tribe-members (and Herds) spend most of their time  outside of Prax, in the "Wastes" to the east of the Zola Fel valley?  Vulture Country & beyond...

    Hmmm.  I see those "What my Father Told Me" quotes.  Hmmm ... Is this NEW canon???

    Canon since 1988. Earlier if you talked to Greg or Sandy before the Orange Box came out, of course.

     

    1 hour ago, g33k said:

    I had always envisioned that region -- the Wastelands beyond Vulture Country -- as where outlaws and exiles were forced... and of course the losers of particularly-sharp conflicts.  Maybe even a whole Tribe, if they badly lost to a rival Tribe! ... I'm not sure I  believe  in a vision of the ultra-hostile Wastelands supporting the majority of the Tribes, full-time. 

    Vulture's Country is one of the harshest parts of the Wastelands. That's why the Praxian animal nomads didn't migrate out into the Wastes proper until the Pure Horse People forced them out, back in the Second Age.

    I hope this helps. (You really should get the Guide to Glorantha, it would clear up a lot of misconceptions)

    Succubae in RQG

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    13 minutes ago, Brootse said:

    Cut'n'paste

    Yes, but if you're searching for something, it makes sense to use the word with 400x as many hits rather than the "joke" version; no?

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    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

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    2 minutes ago, Joerg said:

    Which means that the destruction of the two Lunar-friendly phratries is limited to those of their clans making contact with Prax during the armistice, leaving a good portion of them untouched by this development?

    Obviously. I'm not sure why I have to say this stuff out loud. At any given time, most Praxians aren't in Prax. A fair number of them would never have visited Prax throughout the period of Lunar Occupation. The examples we've been given are for the Flower Bison and Sable Green clans, from their What My Father Told Me narratives:

    BISON: "Prax is our holy land, and most clans go there once in a lifetime. Our own clan visits the Paps every ten-hands-plus-one years, following our beasts' great migration across the Greatlands. You were born there, and I do not expect us to return in my lifetime." (Gloranthan Voices, 2003)

    SABLE: "Prax is our holy land, and most clans make periodic pilgrimages there. Our own clan visits the Paps every ten-hands-less-one years." (Player's Book: Genertela; Orange box, 1988)

    Editor's note: the Bison What My Father Told Me is basically the Sable version rewritten to cut out any fancy language, because that's not how any Bison Tribesman I've ever met would talk.

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    The Fate of the Sable Tribe

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    5 hours ago, g33k said:

    I think -- from the Praxian POV -- Argrath is a reasonable bet.   Clearly a large portion (40%) of the Sables thought so, too!

    An equally large portion thought the Lunars were a better bet.

    And a smaller portion said "looks like a coin-toss, and the winners kill the losers; I don't want to bet my life on a 50/50 toss," and cleared out.

    This is all crazy talk, though, because most Sable clans are off in the deep Wastelands and might only return to Holy Prax once in seven years, or forty-nine years, or when they next need to make a Khan. Many Sable clans have never heard of the Lunar Empire, and most Sable clans have never heard of this Argrath White Bull chap. (They know the White Bull prophecy, of course, but not that some crazy mystic seems to be fulfilling it).

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