Akhôrahil

It's very good for Allied Spirits that they don't count as disembodied - this means that they get regular POW advances. And as long as you also give them Experience Rolls (but perhaps not Occupational Experience?) and learning spells, it should be all good. I recommend a Passion or two to give them character.

I would love a multi-level Illumination system, but it's not happening, it seems.

The reason Illuminates are immune to spirits of reprisal is because those zoom in on subconscious, unavoidable feelings of shame and guilt, but Illuminates have succeeded in becoming completely shameless.

We can conclude that the cosmos is schizophrenic, considering how all of these Illuminates disagree with each other.

Hmm... if there's no personal self, how come so many Illuminates are such total narcissistic egomaniacs? 🙂

This will be absurdly powerful in RQG, as you can pick up every single power there is while just shrugging off the taboos.

I don't believe this, personally. If anything, being Illuminated would mean your god can't slap you into a hell for misbehaving. Arkat clearly apotheosized, and was earlier resurrected through the LBQ, plus also getting reborn in the HeroWars.

I would not want to take away the joy of successfully making that 8% chance for skill increase roll from my players.

It’s good for early PDF, questionable otherwise.

I believe the Beast Valley worship at the Wild Temple is notable exception for Arachne Solara.

I would love for Jonathan Tweet to have a go at the RQ rules as well - the man is a genius at RPG design.

And since we're on the subject...

I believe you just answered your own question. 🙂

They become very anticlimactic when you just get rezzed anyway, though.

True, but that takes some extra time, and suffers from the reduced chance to hit. If you have 200% on your attack though, go wild!

Although if any god would do that kind of thing accidentally, it would be Orlanth...

I was not aware of the Inner Earth? What is that? Gods Realm part of the Earth cube (although the Earth isn’t a cube in this schematic).

Oh, totally! By the way, one of my players realized that Multimissile (especially when cast by a spirit for extra speed of action) is great way to roll more fumbles than anyone else. 🙂 Broke the bow on the second shot in the game. Double-arrow shots would do much the same. Splitting this way is weaker than Multimissile, but you also don't actually have to cast the Multimissile, plus at least you still get Impales and Criticals. I would not put any MP cost on it.Probably the best use is when you get a lot of bonuses, such as when firing into a formation and don't care who you hit.

False dichotomy. Fairness can be fun. (Also, unfair games aren't necessarily fun, but I don't think you're arguing that. 🙂 ) It absolutely can be. If my players go into a fight, they know that their actions and the dice will decide the outcome, and that the question of whether someone dies or not will not depend on what the GM feels like. This adds stakes and tension that just aren’t there if they can be confident that no PC will die except when dramatically proper. But under this way of playing, it becomes really important that the rules are good, because they will actually be used. I question the point of using a very crunchy system like RQ and then just handwaving things. There are much better systems to use for that. You want a dramatic arc built in, HQG provides that.

Or frequently, because they run a protection racket. Nice city you've got there, would be shame if anything happened to it...

The big thing this does is make skill category modifiers, and hence characteristics, less important, if you go without that additional table.

If it’s typically MGF to not use the rule, it shouldn’t be written that way. After all, the rules are supposed to support good play, not be an obstacle. If this makes me a rules lawyer, I wear the badge proudly.

I personally think that one of the best reasons to use RQ rules is when you want the rules as the game oracle, i.e. what they say happens, is what happens. For instance, I make all my GM rolls in public, just to dispel the idea that I might be fudging them to save the characters. When they're in a fight, the dice get cast. In this kind of situation, it's a real problem if the rules don't do what they're supposed to, and "oh, just MGF it" isn't really helpful. I'm trying to achieve MGF through a fairly mechanical and player-understood oracle, not by constantly ruling by GM Fiat. In this case, it isn't MGF to just fudge the rules.

First they came for Elmal, but I did nothing, because I’m not an Elmali. Then they came for Doburdun...

Yes, on the "surface" of the Sky Dome. (The reason the blue moon can't be seen is because it travels on the outside of the Sky Dome.)