Yelm's Light

Not trampled, supporting the rest. I'm guessing Gata, Primal Earth. (Appropriate that the GM screen is the Gods Wall, btw.)

Claude Rains as the local Lunar watch commander, and Bogey as...hmm..Gimpy?

Repair is the king. Farmers, craftsmen, housekeepers, pretty much everyone has uses for it. Heal would be second as it's generally useful but not needed as often. Others would tend to be more occupation-specific. Hunters, for instance, could use Mobility, Farsee, the missile spells, maybe Slow, etc. (And in Prax, of course, there's the Peaceful Cut, though that's more a skill than a spell.)

In my game the characters usually had Detects focused or occasionally known by spirits, which circumvents free INT.

Nor ancient.

I tend to agree. What little you can see of the hilt (the crossbar and the pommel) appears to be the same material as the blade, suggesting it's all of a piece.

Again, doubtful. The books are only a tiny portion of what is on even that particular ship, and foot-dragging would affect every company for which products it carries are routed. Also, tariffs are only on raw materials so far. More likely it can be ascribed to the usual delays in the system.

Yeah, if I lived in Australia I'd be there in a heartbeat.

I seem to recall Jeff answering this specifically (or maybe it was Jason), but not where, that declaration comes before any rolls. Makes sense, too.

Sssshh...

Excellent job of painting those.

My thought in reading it was that it was very much in the vein of Amerind myth-tales (not a bad thing at all, as many Praxian HQ's tend to play out similarly). However, since CA is a Lightbringer, you might bring some more Heortling/Orlanthi concepts into it. Say, for instance, that one of the combatants of either side (or both sides) is killed before she gets there and can heal them, and there's the complication of weregeld added to the peace negotiations. Or perhaps there's some kind of tie-in with Hsunchen, with ancestors of the Telmori and/or Rathori involved. Maybe Eurmal shows up to throw a wrench into things.

If you're interested, here's a variant from long ago that I wrote up and posted here that introduces the Aldryami as an Allied race: https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/5304-dragon-pass-revisited/?tab=comments#comment-77932

I'm getting a permission error trying to d/l it.

...and the arms race begins...

And Gods, Demigods, & Heroes, which eventually morphed into Deities & Demigods after copyright issues with the Elric and Cthulhu mythoi. (It's ironic that Chaosium ended up with the licenses for both of them.)

While fertility may have been represented by physical plenty (and often more than the usual number of breasts), I'm not so sure about beauty. Late Bronze Age (mid-second millennium to first-millennium BC) representations of Aphrodite or Isis or Athena don't show them as Earth-goddess types, they're more on the Venus model above. Not willowy Twiggy-types, but certainly more athletic than 'plentiful.'

That describes me. It's associated with the hack-n-slash mentality of my youth, which I've progressed far beyond. Since then I've had experience of a wide range of other games, but haven't had any urge to use a system that doesn't have a consistent and imaginative setting.

MJ, you're quoting wave theory, as I quoted particle theory. One way or the other, either curving of space or the motion of particles is based on the aggregate gravitation of all nearby bodies.

Technically, photons are attracted by gravitation, which is a function of the mass of the photons and all other masses within proximity. My objections are both well-noted and long-standing.

So much for physics...

Love the shield...and Greg's 'attitude adjustment.'

As if ancient Rome (or Babylon) was actually lawless. Deadwood was. Also, as appears to have been missed, I gave an example of a 'city' that I find much more like Deadwood, in Glorantha...Adari.

You don't have to kill mythical or fantastic creatures in Deadwood, nor is that bonanza magical (which, btw, is usually guarded by those fantastic creatures). Humans are the only potential enemy in Deadwood. You don't have to worry about coming into contact with body- and mind-warping forces aka Chaos, nor is there anything resembling actively-involved gods. There's no general 'colonial expansion' attitude like there was in the West; Glorantha is effectively post-apocalyptic (very far in the past, but apocalyptic nonetheless). Pavis is no more Deadwood than Deadwood is ancient Babylon.

Nor I. Deadwood is my favorite Western series ever...I wish the suits hadn't killed it before its time. I just don't think it applies so much to Pavis.