Brian McReynolds

7 hours ago, jrutila said:

 

Did the Sunstop break a contract from the Great Compromise some way? Wasn't the Time itself produce of the Great Compromise?

 

The Birth of Time is/was/possibly wasn't a product/consequence of the Great/Cosmic Compromise. (Depends on who you ask.) Time may have been broken/stopped/changed at the time of the Sun-stop, though most people are unsure if things, (re Time), remained the same afterwards or whether things were different. Only those who were alive or present before the Dawn may know for sure, and they may not necessarily be telling others!

At the end of the day, it's a matter of YGWV, as you can choose whichever works for you. Hope that helps

8 hours ago, Joerg said:

Unless you accept the greeting, you are not subject to the laws of hospitality

If you haven't accepted Hospitality, you're unlikely to be invited into that clan's hall, unless you've somehow managed to sneak across their lands and through the settlement which it lies within. If you've managed all that, you may very well be the kind of Hero that people don't mess with. :-)

@Darius West I get that you don't like the HQ:G system (though I'm not sure whether you've properly read through the rules or not), however as surprising as it may be, some of us like it.

I used to love playing Runequest 2nd edition back in the early-to-mid '80s, loved RQ3 during the late '80s and throughout the '90s. I used to love it's 'simulationist', blow by blow combat system, with all it's lethality. However, now that I'm fast approaching 48 years on planet Earth, I don't want a system that takes (potentially) 45 - 60 minutes to run a combat between maybe 5-10 reasonably competent Heroes/PCs. I've ran the Cradle Scenario and it took us ages to run the grinding, attritional combats required to defend the bloody thing!

I want a system that can be run quickly, where all my fellow players know that the characters they are running are the characters that they wanted to play, (looking at every system that uses random probability to determine stats, professions, etc.), and worries more about the flow of the story that is co-created by myself and my group of friends, rather than worrying about whether my single sword slash hits whichever bodily location, or that PC X has no spare Magic Points left. Heroquest provides all of these things for myself , and if these fora are anything to go by, other groups of players as well.

I have no intention of being unpleasant, so please bear that in mind when I say that we don't need to be repeatedly told that you don't like Heroquest. We get it, man! You come out with some cool, positive ideas, thoughts and comments and I hope that that continues, but PLEASE, enough of the negative vibes!

12 hours ago, Joerg said:

 Still, the Ludoch aren't called the Dolphin people for nothing - dolphins are about as bad as bonobos or our own species when it comes to using sex in social interactions, and their respect for species boundaries might be rather low when it comes to having a fun time. Those ludoch-human lifetime friendship might well include some inter-species private time, regardless of gender. I couldn't say whether sex/gender is a life-long property of merfolk or rather a property of their current phase of life, either - there are few sea deities with well-defined sexual roles.

 

 

Given how Heler is both male and female through it's Water Rune connection, the issue of being the 'wrong' sex for 'some inter-species (or intra-spacies) private time',  may not be a problem within Merfolk societies.

6 hours ago, Jeff said:

The Man Who Came From The Sea rode the Kings Highway and took a face from the gallery of mirrors, asked his future self what his past had done. He walked down a hall and came to a door and looked inside.

Belintar - The God King = Mr Mojo Risin?

On 07/07/2017 at 11:46 AM, Steve said:

Does anyone know what this is referring to? Thanks.

Is it possibly a reference to possessing a 'Star Heart'?

4 hours ago, Joerg said:

 I wonder what she does with the bones.

It's possible that these are used as the basis of weapons such as bone maces/clubs or axes. As far as I know, Scorpion-men aren't noted for their weapon-smithing.

4 hours ago, M Helsdon said:

Given its location in the calendar, military activity (by soldiers or outlaws) is going to be unlikely (except in exceptional circumstances), as it lies between Storm Season (wet, cold, icy, travel difficult) and Sea Season (weather improving, time to get ready for war). Anyone engaging in warfare in Storm Season is risking heavy loses from the weather.

Not to mention going up against those pesky Orlanth worshippers when their Air/Storm magic is even more empowered than normal.

2 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

The cover made me think of something. Harrek is wielding a kukri—where would he have picked it up? Which culture(s) use kukris? My immediate guess would be Teshnos, as it's Glorantha's fantasy India. 

The Greeks had a very similar sword, called a 'Kopis', if memory serves me correctly. Almost identical to a Kukri - at least blade-wise.

He probably picked it up in the Lunar Empire, possibly when he was a Dart Warrior. Many of The Empire's Scimitars are more recently represented in the artwork as Kopis, Khopesh or Moonswords.

Excellent news! Take my money now, please!

13 hours ago, HorusArisen said:

So I finally caved and bought this today now begins the long read 

Enjoy! I bought mine as an Xmas present for myself and have only just finished an extended read-through.

In my opinion, the book has to be the best RPG release ever!

18 hours ago, Darius West said:

 

Running a military campaign is the easy fallback, and I seem to recall a supplement that dealt with a Lunar Excursion into Exiles Tarsh that came out in the late 1990s.  I can't remember what it was called.

 

 

If I recall correctly, wasn't it called 'Tarsh War'?

D101 Games Gloranthan Adventures - 'New Beginnings' whilst written for the HeroQuest system could also be used for RQ6/Mythras based campaigns/one-off games.

Woohoo! The Guide has landed! (And it was packaged to survive the apocalypse!) Thank you for this beautiful set of books!

Ordered! (Now for an impatient wait!)

Now that the Guide is available to order, will there be an option to buy ONLY the Guide, without the AAA? $179.95/£145 is a bit of a steep price, especially as I am after the Guide on it's own.

On 21/10/2016 at 2:24 PM, LeadAsbestos said:

Finally! I've been kicking myself since I passed the first time. I'm in.

Same here! Please, TAKE MY MONEY! i've got to have a physical copy1