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    Pavis!

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    Anyway i'm actually interested in the orginal subject and aim of the thread ? 

    What is Pavis going to be like in 1625 -27

    Which cults hold power?

    Which families fared well, which have done badly ?

    Does the city feel lawless or civlized?

    Is Argarath a good or bad ruler?  Is it meet the new boss same as the old boss?

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    New Balazar Fan Site

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    5 hours ago, g33k said:

    Still loving your stuff, even if I don't follow obsessively.  🙂 

    One quick query:  are you still running your "ST:G" homebrew, or have you adopted RQG?  Or is the answer less clear than that?

    As a player I play in RQG games and campaigns, my campaigns run on ST:G as it suits my style better.

    As regards what I write im going to focus on RQG as that is what most people want.

    I may bring ST:G out for some conference play one offs at some point.

    New Balazar Fan Site

    in Glorantha

    Notes on the Many Suns and the Sun Gods of Prax

    in Glorantha

    Posted · Edited by Jon Hunter

    2 hours ago, Jeff said:

    Having written lengthy descriptions of over 50 cults, this really boils down to me making a judgment call. Is it better to treat Elmal, Yelmalio, and Kargzant as:

    1. Independent cults like Orlanth and Storm Bull. Sure they are both associated Air deities but everyone knows that Orlanth is not Storm Bull and vice versa. 

    2. Separate write-ups like Ernalda and Dendara. One core cult writeup, with another short writeup saying that the God Learners (and others) believe that the cults are the same, and even managed to transpose worshipers with no ill effects, but they never succeeded to get either deity to admit identity with the other.

    3. Treat them all as variations of each other. Y(Elmali)io and Kargzant are just different masks for the same solar deity, and generally recognised as such by their worshipers. They might have some different spells (and only Yelmalio has gifts and geases) but they are working off the same template.

    Option 1 is clearly wrong, and I think option 2 is misleading.Option 3 fits the situation the best. 

    I've no firm opinion on the main point. Apart from I think I had just got used to Elmal then he is back as Yelmalio. 

    People don't like unexpected change. They really don't like having 10 - 20 years to get used to unexpected change and then have everything change back again. Any movement like that whatever the merit of the argument will create resistance.

    My observation from spending most of my adult life with religious people is that we are a little bit nuts and have the capacity not to see the obvious, loose greater truths in arguing about very minor points, and are so committed to our beliefs that the slightest deviations can be seen as a very major issue.

    The chances of these different groups of seeing their cults, Gods and practices as one and the same if they really are may possibly be quite limited.

    Anyway I may be being an idiot here, but I thought Kargzant was analogous with Yelm. Did I get this wrong or is yelm analogous with Yelmalio too? 

    Figures for Gloranthan Armies

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    Not to detract from Martin's sterling work, you can also get a very Gloranthan feel by mixing and matching, parts from different models.

    I just created a very believable(but unmounted) Grazelander figure by combining late Roman infantry body, Scythian style head and Mongol bow and quiver.

    Rune Priest Requirements

    in RuneQuest

    Posted

    On 11/18/2018 at 10:42 AM, Mechashef said:

    Am I missing something or are the requirements to become a Rune Priest rather trivial now?

    In particular the requirement for the Loyalty (Temple) or Devotion (Deity) Passion to be at a minimum of 50% is laughable as passions typically start at 60%

    The Cult Rune of 90% seems trivial as it is easy for starting characters to typically achieve that.

    Most starting characters will already have a good start on the required 5 RPs

    The Worship (Deity) and the other 4 skills shouldn't be too hard as they only require 50%.

    The hardest part is probably POW of 18, convincing the examiners and finding a vacancy.

    (And personally I'm not sure if someone with only 50% for their worship skill and Loyalty or Devotion is the calibre of priest I'd want leading my congregation.  They seem to be rather amateurish).

    Or have I missed something?

    Thanks

     

    id tend to agree maybe an area where the rules need a little polish.

    New Balazar Fan Site

    in Glorantha

    Balazaar in 1625?

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    1 hour ago, David Scott said:

    The first thing to note is that Elkoi is at least 5 miles inside the Windstop, while the other citadels aren’t. It’s possible that it evacuates. I’ll dig out a detail of my regional Windstop  map. I’ve now completed the Balazar area which was incomplete in this version

     

    With the Balazarings because are nomadic for the most part, they have the ability to migrate into good hunting grounds, probably with a lot of the game as well, there will be hardship, but nowhere near as hard as with farmbound individuals.

    Maybe the Windstop would create a full scale evacuation of Elkoi, but with good hunting lands being 5 miles away and its own agriculture not being significant at the moment, it may not be needed.

    If it is we may see the Citadel inhabited and taken over by all kinds misanthropes, Tusk riders anyone?

    Balazaar in 1625?

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    Some fair ideas....

    Apart from monsters and encounters which will change;

    • The trolls stuff is interesting, will read more
    • The windstop will see a northern migration of the Balazarings in the south, and significant losses at Elkoi and the lunar villages
    • Dykene tribes will have migrated north into danger ground, bear woods and this into greater conflict with trolls ands maybe elves
    • I see post dragonrise the Elkoi garrison being withdrawn as the Provincal Army reorganises
    • Therefore Glyptus becomes a weak vulnerable king and probably soon to be replaced
    • Trilus is the strongest position and maybe becomes expansionist

    Balazaar in 1625?

    in Glorantha

    Posted

    OK my BacktoBalazar site Publishes a version of Balazar a few years on from Griffin Mountain, but its highly influenced by an previously personal campaign so isn't definitley is not cannon.

    However things will have moved on.

    All I have been able to surmise from official sources is Von Enkorth has been reassigned to Pavis.

    Apart from that change what else do people think would have changes in Balazar since 1617?

    what is the mythic basis for addiction?

    in Glorantha

    Posted · Edited by Jon Hunter

    Maybe my response was too hard ....

    and a simple answer isn't easy to do as addictions have many causes , many triggers and many cyclic effects.

    The point i was trying to make is that for many people much of the time. there is a profound psychological element within addiction.

    To see it as a case that regard addictive substances and constitutional resistance reduces the nuances of the issues significantly, and possibly plays into the misconceptions about addiction.

    Addictions can be routed in the chemical, stem from attachment issues or be routed in trauma.  My addictive behaviours are attachment based and triggered, so substance based systems don't reflect my experiences of addiction at all.

    Question about "Spell Trading" in RQG

    in RuneQuest

    Posted · Edited by Jon Hunter

    27 minutes ago, creativehum said:

    So, since the spell descriptions states this is a spell cast between priest, only priests can have it.

    That's my read. And yours as well?

    No there was a typo in my previous post that reversed my position entirely.

    The cult lists and example characters say its available to initiates, I would go with that.

    I think the use of priests in description is a hold over from the old spell descriptions which wasn't picked up and altered, probably needs jotting down in errata to be picked up.

     

     

     

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