Oracle

I've seen 10,000 B.C. just these days, which contains a very impressive part, in which the hero helps a (much bigger) smilodon, which is trapped under some fallen tree trunks. And shortly after that the smilodon helps the hero, when he is encircled by a whole initially hostile tribe. But communicating with the smilodon gets him the favour of this tribe.

I could very well imagine, how this could happen in Glorantha, and how this could lead to relation between the hero and the big predator ...

As far as I know Red Strings of Fate is not at all related to Glorantha ...

I was able to give it try during *last year's" Eternal Con at Castle Stahleck. It was fun and did not take too much time.

2 hours ago, jajagappa said:

If I was to do something non-Gloranthan, than this might be the most appealing.  Set alongside the "real-world" is that of "faerie".  Inspired by the works of Charles deLint, Raymond Feist's "Faerie Tale", Stephen King/Peter Straub "The Talisman", and others.

For this kind of setting I was recently tempted to have a look at 'Liminal' ...

8 hours ago, GAZZA said:

I'd be interested in seeing that if you can find it. My group has finished River of Cradles, and are about to go into Scenario 4 of Borderlands (which is slightly problematic, because the PCs do meet the Duke in River of Cradles, and then see him building his fort in Borderlands... but I just decided he had some sort of temporary fortification at the time they met in RoC). I'd like to use both Sun Country and Strangers in Prax, and I definitely want to run the Cradle.

Could be this one: http://www.soltakss.com/pavis01.html#Timeline

9 hours ago, lordabdul said:

I like that better indeed!

Seriously, I was wondering for a second if "duplicity" might have been "diplodocus" auto-corrected by the author's writing software... but there's no diplodocus in the RQ Bestiary...

And there was no auto-correcting software, when the first edition of King of Sartar was released in 1992. Or at least it was not as usual as it is now ...

p.26: Section Aftermath, second paragraph

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If the adventurers let a hippogriff be harmed in Rival
Triumphant (see page @) the hippogriff convocation
soon abandons Pegasus Plateau again.

The placeholder @ should be replaced with the real page number (which is p.24).

2 hours ago, Grievous said:

p. 34: "They hate owls and kill them on site."

That's in fact p.31 (PDF p.34)

Please enlighten the ignorant: What is TTS?

3 hours ago, Loïc said:

Good question! I've often read of it in products' checklists, but could never get a hand on it, and didn't saw it in Chaosium's PDFs. I think it has never been published, but maybe there is a first draft somewhere? Maybe Chaosium has it at the back of a drawer and could propose the PDF in some vault?...

And I have the same question for some "Dara Happen Book of Emperors" I've read about somewhere? Maybe some Greg Stafford's Unpublished Works... never published?...

https://www.ebay.de/itm/SIGNED-Greg-Stafford-BRAND-NEW-The-Dara-Happan-Book-of-Emperors-1994-glorantha/114210378412?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D937f7c95d51240df894cca8e17dbe59c%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D12%26rkt%3D30%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D114209051522%26itm%3D114210378412%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2386202%26algv%3DDefault&_trksid=p2386202.c100677.m4598

As you can see, this document is from 1994, so I think, @soltakss is right: The Fortunate Succession is the better choice, because the "Dara Happan Book of Emperors" is just an older version of the same document.

Tried to use the above link, but all I've got was a PAGE NOT FOUND ...

1 hour ago, Chiarina said:

(Bye the way: How do you insert the names of the originator in a quotation?)

I select the passage to quote. Then a pop-up appears saying "Quote selection". I click on that pop-up and voila, the above quote appears in my input area.

Or I use the Quote link at the bottom of every post, which creates a quote with the whole post in my input area, which I may or may not edit afterwards ...

1 hour ago, DerKrieger said:

It seems to be missing the different Theyalan dialects though. For example Esrolian vs Heortling.

 

Edit: It was bothering me so I added Heortling, Esrolian, and Tarshite.

Did you see the Hillspeech entry? If you follow the link, it says among other things, that Hillspeech is know as Tarshite also ...

Not sure, if you are aware of that, but just for completeness:

While recently doing a research similar to this here about Ash Anvari:

@Jeff himself confirmed @jajagappa's assumption from above, that Smithers is the same but incorrectly named village as Man Vill. He even provided an excerpt from his master maps regarding this area.

In addition I've realised, that Man Vill is already on the Upland Marsh map in Wyrms Footnotes #15 and in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes, p.321, which both stem from Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 ...

With Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 from (I think) the year 2000 and the Dragon Pass Gazetteer map from 2003, it seems to be obvious, where the mistake was made ...

Thanks for this excerpt of the master maps.

By the way: just realized that Man Vill is already on the Upland Marsh map in Wyrms Footnotes #15 and in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes, p.321, which both stem from Tales of the Reaching Moon #19 ...

So nothing really new, but first time with a description (in Smoking Ruins) ...

This is related to an older thread about Man Vill:

I have a similar issue now with Ash Anvari. This village is mentioned in the adventure Law Staff Quest, which has been published in the Sartar Companion.

In this adventure the village is described as a "public town" in the Beast Valley north of the Ghost Hills. There is even a map, but without putting the name on it. The map just show the way, the adventurers use to reach Arrowmound. So seems to be located south of Duck Point and South-West-West of Duck Ferry.

So it could well be, that this again is the same place as Man Vill / Smithers. What do you think?

Maybe @Jeff could enlight us here ...

14 hours ago, g33k said:

Nah, that's just a faerie-tale the Lunars tell their children.

Fake News!

And that's quite obvious, as a goose is *not* a duck ...

4 hours ago, Ian Cooper said:

Should be fixed

Yes, works now as expected. 👍

Started with trying to download the SRD ... but all GitHub on questworls.chaosium.com related links fail with a 404 (Page not found) error currently ...

Download from https://www.chaosium.com/questworlds-system-reference-document/ without any issue ...

I do not think so:

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Only one augment may be attempted per ability, and an ability can only be used once per session to augment a task being attempted.

(Runequest - Roleplaying in Glorantha, p.144, bottom of right column)

So per session you can:

• augment a specific ability once only
• using an ability for augmenting a task once only

The second. You cannot use Swim to augment Spear (or, if I'm not wrong, any other ability) in the same session again. But depending on the success level and/or the judgement of the GM the augment may last longer than just the initial Spear fight ...

That's at least, how I understood the rules so far ...

From my perspective this is a Group Contest. All members of the group have a common goal using different means to achieve this goal. Depending on your story and the importance of this attack for the story this could be even an Extended Group Contest, which would make it more obvious, that every group member follows his own way to achieve the goal by fighting their own enemy combatant(s).

I think this mainly depends on your view of how important you want to make the scene and its result for the players ...

12 hours ago, jajagappa said:

There's only one reference to 2nd Moonbroth in 1625 in RQG. Given where it occurs, I believe it's an oversight and should have been 1624.

That's also consistent with the map in the Guide p.733 where Argrath is at Jaldon's Rest in 1624 then marches towards Pavis.  Moonbroth would have been in the path.

In 1625, after Pavis is liberated, Argrath marches back towards Sartar, is met and defeated near Hender's Ruins.

Hhm, but there is this entry in the Glorantha Sourcebook, which I've mentioned earlier in this thread already ...

40 minutes ago, M Helsdon said:

-..

Am wondering if I should start a new thread.

With the main thread nearing its 1000th entry this is probably a good idea ...