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Yelm's Light

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  1. On 9/13/2018 at 11:15 AM, Pentallion said:

    I know Newt is doing it as all soldiers.  I guess what I failed to communicate is that I feel it should be run with a group of survivors, not military only.  As he put it, it's inspired by old war movies.  Well, I'd cast Ingrid Bergman as the Teelo Nori missionary who came to feed the poor and homeless.  Sydney Longstreet as the Etyries merchant who tries to bargain his way out of Prax (probably finding out that money can't buy away his sins), Peter Lorre would be the cowardly Lunar deserter.  The only soldier to survive the liberation of Pavis because he abandoned his post and fled through a tunnel. 

    I'm just saying, it's an excellent premise but there's more than one way to play it if a GM so chooses.  It needn't just be Lunar soldiers.

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

  2. 8 hours ago, jeffjerwin said:

    What are the usual spirit magic spells useful to ordinary people?

    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.)

  3. 4 hours ago, womble said:

    We mostly never had enough free INT to be bothering much with Detect spells when I was playing regularly. Nor enough MP to be casting them will-ye nil-ye 'on spec'. It just hadn't crossed my mind that protective magics might protect against something as intuitively indirect as a Detect. But it's evidently the case that it's meant to be this way.

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

  4. 2 hours ago, Mac said:

    Must say, with the reports from a while ago that the US container ship is docked in LA....I am beginning to wonder if customs is dragging their heels due to Drumf’s trade war with China??

    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.

  5. 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.

  6. 10 hours ago, womble said:

    Heh. That didn't even need the 'A'! :) What you're describing there was Basic D&D (the expansions for higher levels were 'Master' and something else, my wooly recollection without consulting any oracles tells me), and is where I started too :)  Very quickly moved onto 'proper' (A)D&D though. And then RQ. AD&D was three rule books: Players' Handbook, DMG and Monster Manual, as a 'base', so I think more convoluted (certainly higher page count) than the RQ2 rules.

    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.)

  7. 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.'

  8. 16 hours ago, Richard S. said:

    Question: how many people on here even have experience outside of B/AD&D? Considering the majority of posters seem to be RQ grognards of a sort I'm curious as to how many of you actually realize how far D&D has come from its wargaming roots.

    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.

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  9. 5 hours ago, simonh said:

    This comment is especially hilarious considering Deadwood was originally going to be set in ancient Rome.

    But of course Rome isn’t ancient Babylon either...

    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.

  10. 9 hours ago, g33k said:

    Goldrush-esque bonanza of wealth... If you get lucky?  Check.

    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.

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Jon Hunter said:

    I'm not sure I said i was anti deadwood.....

    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.

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