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2 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

So why not empower those proven producers?

Why do you believe they haven't empowered us already? We are writing and producing!

2 hours ago, Professor Chaos said:

which makes me wonder why those books are not 'official'

Do you really need a Chaosium logo stamped on the cover for those works to be so? People have embraced and are running Six Seasons in Sartar campaigns. People have embraced and are running campaigns in my Imther setting. The wealth of content and ideas is there!

On 5/16/2024 at 5:18 AM, BRP Investigator said:

So if I write a fictional encyclopedia or newspaper, can I use my own layout?

Yes.

On 5/16/2024 at 5:18 AM, BRP Investigator said:

I’ve seen that there are templates, so I wonder if I have to use them or if they are just there as a support for creators.

No, you don't have to use. They are templates available to use if we choose to. 

What you do need to include are the Miskatonic Repository logo on the cover and the relevant credits (found in the template).

9 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

A nice euphemism for "Gregged".

I don't think that is a fair statement. There was simply not much discussion of Mastakos at any point and certainly not of his background.

15 hours ago, M Helsdon said:

The book hasn't sold well

The book is an Electrum best seller, which is doing very well. There are only just over 20 books that have reached Gold status. I think you have to judge by that, not based on Armies & Enemies, which was one of the first books available and has now been out for like 5 years.

5 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

Proteus came out of left field.  Perhaps there will be further info later, or when the Water cults book is published.

Only because we didn't used to know that Mastakos was a Water god and Magasta's charioteer before he became Orlanth's. 

4 hours ago, PhilHibbs said:

Is Travelling Stone going to make it into one of the volumes?

Presumably the Spirit/Hykimi/Hsunchen book.

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

Most PC's I've gamed with or known have never made it to this point as they were generally not strong enough to go to the Underworld... maybe in the future.

I did take mine there (though was running HQG when I did)! They had to recover the clan's Fertility goddess who had fled there after their Harvest festival was attacked. And they did succeed (and most made it back intact) - definitely most memorable campaign.

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

I suppose if a PC had the strength and or size of a godling in the HQ it might happen. With the rope, if successful the character could throw him off the mountain...

Think Wind magic! Knockdown his rock, or hurl yours along! Have to step outside the box with these demigods

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

Oh, one last thing, was reading about Horned Rock (Tales 18 p.30) being the true beginning of the Stormwalk Path. Assuming it exists in my Glorantha would it be, in your mind, related to or part of the Hoof Shrine or would you have it at the green circle in the clip below?

It seems like it'd be part of Hoof Shrine, if not the centerpiece?

As I didn't reference Tales, I can't say what the specifics of it are (and don't have handy at the moment).

The Hoof Shrine is the starting point of the Spiral Trail to the top and the beginning of the Stormwalk Path (7 times around, so it's a very long trail and there's only one shortcut early on - and trying to shortcut anywhere else brings the fury of the mountain winds down upon you, as well as other foes, so not good to try. Storm Bull doesn't like it.).

If the Horned Rock is supposed to be at the start, then, yes, make it part of the Hoof Shrine.

Baskelos' Hut is on the eastern face of the mountain on the fourth circle up. Plenty of tests and dangers to pass to get even that far. 

1 hour ago, Jason Farrell said:

Of course, there could be a street date (the 22nd, natch) in place and that store just ignored it or made a mistake.

That's my suspicion here, but still just a guess.

1 minute ago, g33k said:

Chaosium USA webstore still doesn't list it as available when I look...

That's because it is not yet May 22.

Likely part of the wait is to ensure distribution can get books to the Bits & Mortar stores before the launch date (and therefore some of those, as in this case, may have received their orders already). 

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

If PC's meet a character in Glorantha and knows them, is friendly or fights them as an enemy, even kills them but then meets them on a Hero Quest would both parties not recall the past events and react to each other accordingly?

Generally, if you meet them on a HeroQuest, you won't recognize them as themselves. They'll be in the role of some deity on their own quest. If they are on an Orlanth quest and you're on an Ernalda quest, you'll see each other as Orlanth and Ernalda, or perhaps members of their entourages.

It is feasible that you will later recognize the other character in this world, as being your special HeroQuest foe (as Harmast and Palangio were, or Arkat and Nysalor) based on things you learn that they have done. 

If you happen to kill an enemy, and then go on an Underworld quest, it is feasible you may meet and recognize their ghost there. But in that case, they are a ghost/dead spirit and likely already beginning to forget about their mortal existence. 

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

Lets say a group of PC's somehow befriend Baskelos, likely through bribery or giving assistance running of griffins or bandits, etc. while up in the mountains, would he act kindly toward them if they bump into him in the future on a Hero Quest if they could get him to recognize him, could convince him they were friends?

Baskelos exists in this world too. The Sky Bull Quest is a this-world quest to win a sky bull for yourself in this world. However, he probably exists in the Other World as well. You might recognize him, but he'll see you in the Otherworld in the role/mask you've taken for your quest (i.e. he might see you as Orlanth or one of Orlanth's minor winds). He will not remember you then. However, if you've met him and befriended him in the Otherworld, then you might use that to convince him of your friendship in this world.

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

Besides food, beer, some armor or a giant sized sword how does one bribe a giant?

Poetry, entertainment (song, dance, juggling, etc), helping him overcome a pest (scorpionmen, Gagarth's band, a plague of bullsitch), challenging him to a wrestling contest or a rock throwing contest, etc.

1 hour ago, Ynneadwraith said:

no wonder I hate the idea of living in Glamour. It's bloody Bond Street isn't it. Horrendous place...

I thought it would be Harrod's...

10 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

He will surely be up there in the hills in my game, hanging around, maybe visiting Hoof Shrine... with his SIZ 40 dog, so a bit larger than 29 or so it shows in Tales 18.

Tales 18 is not mine, it's a fanzine - it is not something I can use for content development. The figures I noted are from my submitted Heortland material.

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

I thought there was a picture of Baskelos with his dog but I cannot find it...

Maybe you're thinking of the giant from the Coming Storm?

3 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

How many under 20 years old were at the Con?

Had a fair mix of ages. Con is not something you'll get too many under 20 at given the need to travel in with parents, but both Jeff's kids were there and some others. There were definitely under 30 folks there (probably more of those for CoC, but Home of the Bold attracted a good mix).

24 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Apple Lane was great, why did Rainbow Mounds need to be changed?

Would you not want to introduce these great locales to the new generation of RQG players? I don't see anything wrong with updating either locale 10+ years on, and personally was quite pleased to see both return with something new.

26 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Give me a book on Troll Woods

Assuming the Heortland book gets to print one of these days, you'll get something on that one.

27 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

I really don't need more material on how to generate a PC in a certain area, what their parents did or how adult initiation rites are different one local to another...

Exploring ruins and finding EWF stuff is the fun of old. 

That all depends upon the type of game you're running, and for a lot of us investing in the community situations are what drive story and interest. I think the overwhelming success of Six Seasons is a testament to that.

30 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

I still hope for Jaja's Adventures in Nochet... and of course the Heortland book. 

As noted elsewhere, I'm working on the former. (And I already did the work on generating a PC in the area, so don't need to repeat that! 😉 )

32 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

The adventures of Neep Trollsbane and how to run a campaign with him, as him or against him would be a great book.

Since some of that appeared in the old Unspoken Word Thieves' Arm work, perhaps that story is up to its creators to update for RQG?

28 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

I assumed it was where the red circle is below.

The red circle is pretty much the peak, so go with the NE edge of the circle.

28 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

So the trade route would run between Stormwalk and Founders where I showed it and avoid the valley between Founders and Bull Pen Mountain.

Yes, but the Storm Bull shrine will absolutely: 1) demand a toll/tribute to maintain the shrine (including foodstuffs); 2) demand offerings and sacrifices (possibly including MP) to Storm Bull. Only then will they allow your passage.

30 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Curious as to Baskelos' stats... how might he be placated and or reasoned with.

There's a quest for that! 😉 (I.e. it's one of the quests to gain a Sky Bull).

"Baskelos is friendly to wind children, but otherwise suspicious of those passing his hut.  He does not offer the hospitality of his hut, but listens to tales, plays music or games (excluding riddle games), or shares a drink."

Baskelos is an 8 meter tall giant with the torso/upper body of a typical giant and the legs of a bull (SIZ 55). As the son of a mountain mother, he can step from one mountain to another very easily, can draw upon Earthpower (as in the Rune spell), and can summon the Thunder Brothers to his aid.

His Hound is a giant two-headed brown dog with large eyes, pointed ears, and keen noses and was a gift to Baskelos from the Earth goddesses (it's only SIZ 29 though). The Hound is particularly suspicious of felines, griffins, scorpionmen and anything else that might threaten the Sky Bull herds.

If you really want a Sky Bull, you either need to befriend him after following all the right steps of the quest path or get him so drunk that he passes out (and it takes a LOT of drink to get a giant drunk). The advantage of the former is that he may let you try to corral a sky bull without you having to try to get past the Hound (which will only occur if Baskelos has called it off).

1 hour ago, Erol of Backford said:

Where would the wind child aery be on Founders' Peak?

Founder's Peak is the one directly SE of Stormwalk. The aery is towards the peak along the NE end.

There's also a wind child aery on Whistling Peak which is the mountain directly north of Stormwalk. That one is SE of the actual peak.

Both of those peaks are very steep with no climbable routes. There is a very rough trail in the vale between Founder's Peak and Bullpen Mountain. However, that's also where the wind children deposit the bones of their dead and the spirits are very strong there.

1 hour ago, Erol of Backford said:

Low Temple (Hoof Shrine guessing location is at green square in clip)

Correct.

You will find sky bulls on both Stormwalk and Bullpen Mountains. The giant Baskelos and his Hound guard them. 

8 hours ago, JayLay said:

Speaking Wheel is Nysalor. The problem of the first age was that the golden wheel dancers were all female and so the real task of the Unity Council was to create the first male golden wheel dancer: Nysalor. Nysalor and the golden wheel dancers had many, many children (Golden Wheels). Arkat's quest was really an attempt to stop hyperinflation which was starting to ruin the economies of the western world.

Having played Speaking Wheel at the only running of the Broken Council, I can confirm that Speaking Wheel was assimilated into Nysalor. 😉 

8 hours ago, JayLay said:

The original Eurmal was an exiled zzaburi from Brithos. When randomly asked what his name was he responded with the first name he could think of "errr... Mal-"

This seems logical.

2 hours ago, Darius West said:

Trollpak is an excellent document.  The best thing RQ ever produced, imo.   I have been hoping that Aldryami, Mostali and Dragonewts would all receive a Trollpak treatment.  Instead you are telling me that Trollpak is no longer canon.  That's pretty woeful.

I doubt that we will see anything substantively different on the trolls. The trolls in RQ Bestiary are consistent with Trollpak. We will get Gods of Darkness, and I suspect most will be what we're already familiar with from Trollpak and later Troll Gods. 

10 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

About what year would you speculate he becomes high khan?

1623 when Heortland revolts against Lunar rule.

1 hour ago, Erol of Backford said:

From SKoH: He has been on three Chaos-killing pilgrimages to Snake Pipe Hollow and is slowly making his way to Larnste’s Footprint in the Holy Country to fight against the Chaotic Queendom of Jab.

In my Heortland material, Onar Onari has made it there and become the High Khan of Bullsflood, and is one of the two leading (rival) Storm Bull Khans in that land standing in the way of Gagix and her hordes of scorpionmen. 

The text reads: "Onar Onari was born and raised among the Pol Joni, but from an early age felt the call of the Storm Bull. He adventured for many years across Prax and Dragon Pass gaining a reputation as a reckless Storm Bull with a keen sense for Chaos. When he fights, he does so with mad abandon heedless of danger to himself or his men. He gained his iron axe, Bladger, during an expedition into the Devil's Marsh; his helm, Thickskull, in a duel with a bloodthirsty Rhino Rider; his staff, Oathbringer, upon a quest to the Law Rock; and his sky bull, Moonchaser, when he bested Baskelos the Herdsman in a drinking contest."

1 hour ago, Erol of Backford said:

I was trying to think how to tie him to PC's from Backford? I have the PC's helping to fight the Lunars at Runegate in 1602 and so wonder if Onar was there fighting as well?

He's very much a classic Storm Bull leading a band to fight Chaos wherever it might be found. Might he have been at Runegate? Would have likely been a relatively new initiate at the time - perhaps part of some other Storm Bull Khan's retinue. Maybe the Storm Bull band he's in saves the PC's from Chaotic horrors there? Or maybe they save him even as Chaotic horrors destroy his companions? (Note that he won't stop fighting Chaos until you knock him out though.

13 minutes ago, Eff said:

The northern pillar got broken, and that might be why the northern leaper is Kalikos... though if you're operating with the right materials her star rose within recent centuries. But what she has to do with Altinela or the prospective Altina, friend/foe/reincarnation/frenemy/studiously neutral, probably requires expeditions to the north.

Kalikos is just the journeyer to the north. The real secret lies in the Winter Palace and what is that but the secret bastion of the North where the true rulers lurk behind the cold frigid winds of their Champion Valind.

15 minutes ago, Eff said:

And the south just has the One Night Wish, and whether that was known as Promalt or Bomono I haven't the foggiest.

The Southern Jumper, the Dog Star, who regularly leaps up with joy at his master's passage, and then descends into Hell to keep up with his master's descent. 

But there too we have the Firefall which dumps the liquid burning Sky upon the sands where once the Red Camp and later Artmal's Blue Palace stood. Pamalt and his immortal Agitorani still guard the place and keep the Bad Moons from Rising again.

1 hour ago, scott-martin said:

The rote rehearsal turns experimental. Macbeth goes voodoo, Miles Davis' uh "witches" brew gets real. Maybe the gods themselves are summoned onto the stage to resume whatever unfinished business they might have.

The Tournament of Luck and Death! 

1 hour ago, scott-martin said:

And if suns don't leave that kind of cosmological junk behind, what if anything does remain when a brightface dissolves?

Stars, light, burning sky, heaps of golden dust, and the burnt out remains: ashfall.

1 hour ago, scott-martin said:

But it's tempting to blame the altinelans, who as we know intervened within time to ensure that the red moon rises and why would they do that. The path flips whenever the north jumper wobble turns into precession. The people of the north flip the switch.

The Long-bearded Measurer and the White Lady, our Sister of Mercy. Cunningly hidden behind masks of Wisdom, Innocence, and Harmony and protected by walls of Ice. 

36 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Any pictures of Minaryth?

One interpretation in SKoH, p.166. A slightly different view in Sartar Companion, p.25. 

Since he dies in 1625 at the Dragonrise, no pictures of him in the latest RQG works.

2 minutes ago, Memestream said:

I ordered the POD last week, and have been kicking myself for being stingy and not springing for the bundle. The adventurer's guide will just have to tide me over until it finally arrives. My players vibe with Nochet really big, so I antcipate that a lot of fun will be had with it.

Hope you and your players enjoy Nochet!

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