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I'm now very confused by this spell. if as p366 says 'a normal corporeal being may not initiate spirit combat' how can last part of the distraction spell 'if used against a corporeal enemy the effect is identical' only apply to an enemy for spirit combat purposes? If the caster is corporeal, and the (corporeal) target of distraction can switch spirit combat targets, you then have two corporeal entities in spirit combat which I don't think is supposed to be possible. A shaman has to discorporate before they can initiate spirit combat with a corporeal entity. Can you only cast this on a corporeal entity if you are discorporate?

My Grazelander uses "I'll be a stander's cow man!" as an expression of incomprehension and disbelief.

"Trust a ram before a snake, and a snake before a bat, and a bat before a [epithet] Solar pantheon insult where you insert the profession / nationality / familial-relationship characterising the person that you are angry with.

My STR 7 CON 6 POW 20 Assistant shaman has just been knocked cold by a single dagger blow to the head (serves him right for casting distraction on the dagger weirder to get him off someone else) I'll post some updates here on how long he survives. So far, the idea is to befuddle opposing muscle from the back and let the warriors deal with the real combat. It's not going to be easy to keep anti-combat discipline judging by two encounters I've had so far. Maybe I need to learn Vigour or at least buy some head-armour. Even combatting disease spirits could be deadly.

"He'd quack a fowl joke at Duck Point" - Someone with little sense of occasion or scant respect for hospitality.

It's all in the neck action.

There may be a certain element of know-it-when-I-see-it from one person to another, there is a nice line it one of the Aubrey-Maturin books where one chides his friend along the lines of "I shall not pretend to instruct you on what is honourable...". He is effectively saying that in his opinion the other is contemplating dishonouring himself, without formally accusing him of being without honour, which would likely require a duel between the two. In strongly stratified or caste societies one class might have quite different notions of honour from another. On the whole though most people agree with the rest of their society about what honourable behaviour demands of any one person, and there are severe social consequences (ransom, marriage, advancement in cult) for those who have flouted the norms.

Where did Sheng find his armies? Up his sleevies (Leatherworking)

Shargash or Lightfore/Kargzant might be good candidates for rings because they have both collided with another heavenly body. Since you can't see rings with the naked eye I guess this is more of a spirit world or hero-quest sort of consideration

Is that why Merchant Bankers are the least popular variety of bankers?

Where does RQG stand in the great and contentious boomerang - blowpipe controversy? Or has the blowpipe always been a boomerang really, just one that some people believe fires a dart around corners?

He learns the gods' ways And moons Godlearnerism Shine on Glorantha

This is new to me, I always thought that the third member of the two legged alliance was shrouded in mystery. Functionally it would make a lot of sense for the Morocanth who are weak in scout/cavalry/skirmishers to have a working arrangement the egg-layers who are weak in numbers/mass but quick. The only snag is the light and dark rune attachments of the Ostrich and Morocanth. The morocanth are really smart. So smart that they convince other tribes that they're only a bit smarter than them, rather than a massive humongously scary amount smarter than them (they're smarter than Waha after all). The morocanth and their awakened herd man agents secretly run everything* in the wastes. *in the Orlanthi sense of 'everything'. (This is a personal interpretation - the Enduring Morocanth Conspiracy commits nothing to knots)

Didn't I read here somewhere that all Praxian Nomads were going to have the spirit rune?

That was nothing, but that's how it always begins, very small...

Almost as if the Storm and Solar adherents had a divergent outlook on authority and heritage. :-)

Whenever this thread title pops up, it put me in mind of an art house fantasy remake of Guns of Navarrone. Nice Bolo Lizard

I hadn't noticed the general Kickstarter update email from yesterday. I thought that I had it as an option but I haven't had the BackerKit email (yet).

Is this the RQ2 Kickstarter reward?

Impala riders are just -2 SIZ, +2 DEX in RQG P53 (Homeland Characteristic Modifiers)

I think this is an area where everyone's Glorantha will vary between a huge or substantial degree.

How much is known about who worships Yu-Kargzant-Yelm (Char-Un, Grazelanders...) and who worships Kargzant-Yelmalio (Pentans Storm-Pentans?...) and how groups ended up in one tradition or the other?

I do not see any reference to Halomalao here (apologies if I misspelled the plant sun) after the "helps elves" greater darkness event. In fact if anything the positioning of Dawn worship suggests that Elmal helped humans, Kargzant helped horse folk, and Antirius helped elves. I'm not aware of Antirius helping elves other than some treaty arrangements for human refuge areas in reforestation in Arrir during the first age.

Up to a point Lord Copper, Praxian ostriches may differ, but despite the cock bird fighting and/or distracting predators approaching a nest the terrestrial ostrich looses 80% of nests to predators or to other causes of abandonment*, and 60% of eggs laid singly in the bush (as opposed to a communal nest) are also lost. This may be why the dominant cock and major hen of a communal nest father chicks and lay eggs in neighbouring nests, as well as in the one that they caretake. As little as 30% of eggs in a nest may belong to the dominant pair. Praxian covenant ostriches have the benefit of riders who can make carrying panniers for eggs potentially cutting 6 weeks off the stationary nesting / rearing time. An egg is less than 1% of adult ostrich body mass and there are typically 25 or so in a nest, so riders might be able to arrange to remain mobile. Chicks reach full size in a year (only 15% survive to this age in the wild), and are sexually mature between 2 and 4 years of age, * Ostrich, Edgar Williams, Reaktion Books, 2013

Ostrich riders are nomads whose herd animal can eat almost anything and can run for 30 minutes at 60 km/h (40mph). In our Glorantha they don't need to defend ground and don't try to. "He who sights and runs away, lives to run another day". They hunt wild herds and stray stock from other tribes but don't raid in strength. Having said that, one of our clans got wiped out by a broo bloom, so being weak in combat is still a disadvantage. That's life. If you can't take a joke, don't initiate to Waha.