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On 8/18/2023 at 8:53 AM, Joerg said:

The Mother of Monsters in Elamle or the way too bloody conflict in Onlaks served as deterrent against major investments there.

I’m about to run an Imperial Age scenario in Maslo, and sadly the Mother of Monsters wasn’t there at the time. She’s a side effect of the Opening (see GtG p.604).

Been pondering experience since I started a short campaign. I don’t think there have been contest failures, and I haven’t been using flaws at all often. I don’t know if I have awarded any XP at all! I’ll probably award 1 per session on top of the rules.

I have been granting a few specific improvements, such as everyone adding the Tradetalk ability after a couple sessions with the God Learners. But that’s not under player control.

I think you’re right Mark, in that the default assumption is that everyone is an initiate.

But I think it may be worthwhile have a secondary level that not everyone has, since it supports the idea that you earn your way up to being a rune level. I think I may make this 1M, to hark back to the old RuneQuest idea of mastering a rune.

While just having a magic skill would certainly work, I’m trying to have a Gloranthan feel (runes and religious communities) without going too deep into special cases. To me, runes and grimoires as keywords supports this.

When I created the magic rules for HeroQuest 2nd edition, the thresholds for Initiate and Tradition made sense based on starting values (you’d add 4 points to a rune that started at 17).

In QuestWorlds, your runes would presumably start at 10 (like any other ability). Keeping the 1M requirement feels really stringent. How are people handling this? Plausibly you can start a rune at 15 (as well as your defining ability and distinguishing characteristic). Or, since the numbers are all a bit lower, the requirement for Initiate is 15.

Essentially, you can add stats as needed to that “Village of Glass” community aspect all the characters share. https://fate-srd.com/odds-ends/demystifying-fate-fractal-and-nature-aspects 

Yeah, the community could be a Fate fractal. (I probably should have said “backstory aspects,” I think SotC had at least one of them devoted to your connection to another character.)

Again I never ran it, but the idea was that he could simply use his Fire rune to attack (assuming he’s an initiate). No need for special stunts. (The rune descriptions in HeroQuest can suggest uses.) If it’s a one-shot you could probably just keep the skill pyramid and allow up to two runes. I didn’t want them to crowd out other skills which is why I added another at each level.

I don’t know if any recent Fate has story aspects, but I seem to recall them from Spirit of the Century. It might be simpler to ask each player to give an aspect relating to recent history to their character. It’s not like you really need a specific Caladraland chronology for your game, but “Dragons are in my nightmares,” “Hero of the battle of Hot Top,” etc. should help you flesh out your own game. (I suppose if someone wanted this to be their Trouble, they could: “Seeking vengeance against the Six Feather clan.”)

(BTW, my Fate Glorantha also suggested giving a sixth aspect which was community-related: “Blue Pine Clan” or “Nochet Dock Quarter,” since your community can compel you or inspire you in many circumstances.)

Oh, and you’d need a skill of 3 to be rune level. Another skill is Power, which is raw magic (you could create advantages like Ritual Preparation). High Power could give you a larger magical stress track.

I think one reason I didn’t get further was like Epicurean said — Fate can feel a lot like HeroQuest. Also, I never figured out a good way to do shamans or sorcerers.

Although I never finished the design, I’ve played around with the idea that you’d have a skill frustum (have two skills at 4, three at 3, etc.), and runic affinities would be skills. The idea is to capture the idea that some people are strong in a rune.

You can use any runic affinity to create advantages, subject to the powers of the rune. You could use the Fire Rune to create a Fireblade on your sword, but it’s not likely to be able to help a ship to outrun a typhoon.

Runes you share with your deity are divine runes. You can use these to overcome obstacles or attack, consistent with the scope of your god’s power, and subject to any restrictions that the god himself has (for example, Storm Bull initiates can’t use the Air Rune to cast lightning or thunder). To be an initiate, you’d need one of your deity’s runes at 2 or better. It would also be one of your aspects (such as Lhankor Mhy Librarian).

Your divine runes also act as aspects. An initiate of Elmal can use the Fire Rune to create an advantage like Beacon of Honesty when trying to persuade someone, but could also be compelled to force the Elmali to tell an inconvenient truth. (When used as an aspect, the rating is ignored.)

I think if the chivalric traits are starred on the squire sheet (book 1 page 5), they should be on the character folios (even if the starter set doesn’t go into detail).

Just got the PDF and looking through it… Characters have a Fashion skill but this isn’t in the rules. Londinium can give you -1D4 Geniality but that’s not in the rules either.

Update: fixed the Steam page, the Download button should be much more obvious. Note that Steam kind of hides the dark button to download it, you may need to scroll down and look on the right side.

Always love to hear our games got people into Glorantha!

Shargash rules the green city, so obviously has to have a green crown…

On 8/23/2021 at 10:51 PM, Leingod said:

I just found something interesting in the game's files: The Yeleni are marked as “Odayling.” I should also note that the Spirit Hills, just across from where they live across the Oslira, is marked as “Sylila” in those same files.

Basically, I had drawn the map zones before some discussions with Greg, where he pointed out that the groupings you see at the Dawn are not necessarily those in the Storm Age. A lot happens in between! (And you may see more of the in-between in the next game.)

And yes, not everyone survives.

12 hours ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

"This god began his mortal existence as a simple peasant in the imperial land of the Golden Age. Through perseverance and hard work he earned a superior and rewarding position in life."

 

You’re right! I think I was thinking about Lunar gods, like Etyries. (In GRoY he’s always a god, or so I interpret the story about him being an imperial official in Yelm’s palace.)

I’m pretty sure there is zero connection between the Gold Wheel Dancers and the Hyalorings (but given they are super obscure, perhaps there is one).

Lokarnos is on the Gods Wall, I don’t think he was ever considered mortal.

Greg Stafford collaborated pretty closely on King of Dragon Pass, so

1. It’s very canonical. He approved art and made up names (Uralda) and titles (Luminous Stallion King) that we needed.

2. It’s not canonical — we had explicit freedom to diverge from published Glorantha (you might notice that Sartar doesn’t show up to steal your thunder).

9 hours ago, Leingod said:

Unfortunately no, I'm not really in the habit of keeping the saves after I beat a playthrough, since I use the same name every time and it got confusing. Sorry about that.

Although, in my most recent save, which I do still have, I got a bug where I managed to convince all the clans of the Cenala revelation in that first event, but the game acted like there were still non-believers, even after Cenala showed up and healed the valley. So I'll send that, at least.

Do save at least one game, if you want to continue your clan’ s story once “Lights Going Out” is out.

And yes, we’re still fixing bugs in “Ride Like the Wind.”

You noticed the button that gives you more info about Six Ages, but not the window title or menu title? 🙂 You should also be able to play the App Store build of Six Ages on an M1 Mac, but the Steam version would probably be more computer friendly.

The App Store build of King of Dragon Pass is not old school, and you can play it on an M1 Mac. (To play the old school version, you need an old school Mac that can run an app built for PowerPC architecture.)

On 2/13/2021 at 3:40 PM, Leingod said:

This isn't really "lore," but I figured this bug was funny enough to be worth showing.

By chance, do you still have that save? If so, can you send it in as a bug (see https://sixages.com/index.php/resources/)? I think I know what happened but would like confirmation.

On 1/19/2021 at 11:48 AM, Bill the barbarian said:

Unfortunately after having only played 1 game at the turn of the millennium, the game did not make the jump to Intel Macs so for 2 decades i looked at my pretty pristine disk in sorrow. Finally bought it again this year to find it will not run on 64 bit so I have now bought this game twice an done played it once. No use getting used to it now as I plan my migration to 64 bit only. That you say it will work on a M! chip is news I will try to find out if there is a 64 bit version I can get (not from the app store it seems wish s confusing by what you say)

If you have an M1 Mac, you can get King of Dragon Pass from the Mac App Store.

On 7/1/2019 at 9:46 AM, Bill the barbarian said:

agreed, Have not played on 10 years now and I truly miss playing it and wished it would run on modern macs, alas.

If you have one of the latest Macs, I believe you can play the version from the iOS App Store. (I launched it on my M1 MacBook Air but didn’t do any extensive testing.)

On 12/27/2020 at 11:08 PM, coffeemancer said:

one of the cland in "Six ages: ride like the wind" is a pure horse clan

Given the millennia between them, I wouldn’t expect them to be very close to the Grazers. They’re related, but not necessarily directly.