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Thanks for the feedback so far. We'll be reviewing it and making an update to the .pdf in the next week or so.

That is how we are describing the book.

He's just an initiate of Ernalda. She is the goddess of women, but many worship her. Orvald is likely not going anywhere higher than being an initiate, but initiate membership (core book, page 293) does not require that the worshiper be female. He's a member of the Fright subcult, and if you read his backstory, then Cornflower's, he doesn't come across as a particularly white hat kind of guy.

Yep. You can improve POW through the following: A successful Worship roll made on the High Holy Day of the cult or during Sacred Time lets you attempt a POW gain roll. Winning a POW vs. POW struggle during adventuring lets you attempt a POW gain roll (if the resistance roll chance was below 95%). Spending 500 L and training for a full week at your temple lets you attempt a POW gain roll. Accepting a geas from either Humakt (page 296, result 3) or Yelmalio (page 309, result 7).

It should probably be all random. Adjacent might be a carryover from shield parrying. I'll take a look and see if the matrix/table needs to be corrected. Again, this might be a carryover. These charts had a lot of editing and back-and-forth and could have used more. That's a legacy rule. Ignore it as you see fit. I intend to remove it from any future editions. You may not believe this, but our playtest GMs asked us to be quite explicit about whether an attack hits or not for every entry. It's the most basic question... "Did the attack hit?" and for various reasons people thought it wasn't always evident, even when the results discussed damage.

We are discussing the content of Rune Fixes 2.

Thanks for all of the enthusiasm. Currently, though, we've got no plans to update the pregens officially. By all means, though, make any variants you see fit. Your Glorantha may vary!

It was meant for the GM Screen Pack as a special handout, but for some reason between the multiple editors, two layout people, and production handoffs it got overlooked. It will go into the pack for future printings and I'm seeing if Rick can add it to the .pdf version for everyone who's bought that.

I'm adding it to the downloads of this site, and here it is: RQ Rune Fixes - 3rd July.pdf

The effects of damage per location are based on total hit points delivered to the hit location. For example, with a 6-pt limb, it doesn't matter if it's one blow doing 18 points or 18 1-point injuries, it is destroyed. I'll try to pop in to the official answers thread. It's just a question of prioritizing new material moving forward into production or long periods of careful research and deliberation for questions.

This cannot be emphasized enough. If you want to play a combatant, then Vishi Dunn, an assistant shaman, is a poor choice. His preferred ranged combat tactic is to point at something and say "Cousin Monkey, go kill that." His best combat option is to entangle a foe with his pole lasso and have Cousin Monkey take that foe out with his spear.

Thank you for noticing.

Same drawbacks, with a different set of limitations: Restricted to axes Gender-restricted membership No God-talkers or Rune Priests

Hi! I haven't been around much as I've been slammed catching up from a month where I was much less on-the-grid than I'd have liked. Technically, Sword Trance could be extended to a season through Extension, so long as the adventurer doesn't: Get knocked unconscious Sleep Have it Dispelled (a common Rune spell) It is a powerful spell, to be certain. In return, Humakti must: Use swords primarily Take on annoying and potentially debilitating geasa Give up resurrection, divine or otherwise These all (in our opinion) are significant issues, and reasonable tradeoffs for such a powerful spell.

I can answer some of these questions, but honestly I'd rather wait until we have more to show. But first, please take the arguments about the genesis of various other games to another thread, or vanish them altogether. Closest to hard science fiction. More Brin than Burroughs. Somewhere between the first two, depending on what your definitions are. Not the third. Yes, to be explained later. Ringworld, given it's leaning more towards hard sci-fi than anything else. This will be mentioned when the game is discussed further. We're not being coy here. Right now the author is still finishing up two big projects for us and is developing the "setting bible". Until that's locked down there's no point in discussing anything about it, as that might change.

Stay on target.

Just some clarity here: Chris' project will be an original setting. It will use BRP/RQ rules (we're letting him go a la carte with them and pick what rules options work best). Compatibility with RQ/Call of Cthulhu is not a requirement, and makes little sense given the nature of the setting he's doing. It's still in gestation phase, as Chris is busy with the new edition of Harlem Unbound and finishing another project for us I'm not sure has been announced. We are not announcing anything official until we have a team in place, a full product outline, and some concept art to show. As soon as there's more solid stuff behind the scenes, we'll start posting info. I can tell you it'll be neither Star Wars nor Star Trek in theme and tone.

Just a note that I am paying attention to these comments, but I've been buried under travel and a sudden high prio project that means the GM Sourcebook is the #3 item on my schedule at the moment.

Thanks, all! Printers hate it when we switch out too many pages, and it creates the margin of error, so we've at this point triaged edits into "edits we absolutely have to make" and "glitches we can cover in an errata sheet." Anything coming in beyond this is grist for an errata page, but the print edit window is officially closed.

Thanks, all! Printers hate it when we switch out too many pages, and it creates the margin of error, so we've at this point triaged edits into "edits we absolutely have to make" and "glitches we can cover in an errata sheet." Anything coming in beyond this is grist for an errata page, but the print edit window is officially closed.

Thanks, all! Printers hate it when we switch out too many pages, and it creates the margin of error, so we've at this point triaged edits into "edits we absolutely have to make" and "glitches we can cover in an errata sheet." Anything coming in beyond this is grist for an errata page, but the print edit window is officially closed.

The average of 1D6 is 3.5, rounded up to 4.

I might be missing something here. 195+200=395, averaged is 197.5, which rounds up to 198. 200+205=405, averaged is 202.5, which rounds up to 203. Are you objecting to the rounding up of fractions? Or picking an average value within the range?

Just a note... I added a "Second Printing, Version 1.02" to the core book's credits page, but unbeknownst to me, to fix a hyperlink error that was affecting many sections in the book, only pages after the table of contents were swapped in. The new file is the updated one, but the version number didn't make it in. We'll get it into the next update.