Akhôrahil

This is written in a very unclear way in the rules, but rules QA has clarified that it’s -20% for each parry or dodge attempt in a round.

Something like that. Everything should have something in dodge.

Yes, one that is hard to avoid. See the Guide.

Scorpion Men often have weapons. Parrying with natural weapons is allowed, but there’s very rarely a point to it when you could dodge instead.

Maybe? Probably? Conflicting passions are fine, after all.

I will tell you what’s nasty - chaos gift for extra Con. As the poison is Con-based. I played the Scorpionman Raid in Dorastor with my players, well aware that any penetrating hit from that Con 50 Scorpionman would be an auto-kill...

Actually, how come the RQ3 stuff doesn’t get PDF releases, like so many RQ2 products have? Especially as so many products were excellent! Is it a rights issue? More of the cult (misapplied worship in that case, I say!) of RQ2? Or what? It would be a public service to release Dorastor, River of Cradles, Sun Country, Strangers in Prax and Shadows on the Borderlands (those last four might form an omnibus).

If you want to put it in rules terms, the passion ”Mistrust Non-Humakti” would be easy to use. Pretty sure people who don’t trust each other enter contracts all the time. The contract is something that enables it. In Glorantha, backing something up with an Oath spell means you only have to trust in their sense of self-preservation. Personally, I think it’s a little weird that it’s not about non-honorable people instead of non-Humakti - they should be able to consider others honorable.

Quoting Conan’s dad: ”In their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. [Points to sword] Conan's Father : This you can trust.” (It turns out he’s wrong - no Valhalla for Conan’s dad - but hey...)

Do you trust all your friends, neighbours, relatives and co-workers?

And the Carapace spell is quite simply the best bang for the buck you can get for pure armor. Combine it with natural armor and worn armor, and it becomes a lot, very quickly.

Depends... it’s not difficult, but there will be a fair amount of work (lots of NPCs to stat up), as well as some improvisation during play for how to translate the much looser HQ challenges into RQ format.

The Red Cow campaign (The Coming Storm + The Eleven Lights) is in my opinion not merely the best Gloranthan campaign bar none, but quite possibly the finest Gloranthan writing out there in any format.

I tend to sum up armor and HP and treat it the way you would a weapon’s HPs. This is basically the same thing, except that it makes it a lot more likely that you can do 1 point of damage.

I would guess at your third suggestion - the hero has a permanent connection to either the gods’ world or some hero plane. This is probably what makes hero-worship possible. It might also be associated with the Mastery rune, which is apparently a hero-thing now.

That seems like a very quick spread, especially as the Bright Empire was land-locked (although conceivable, agree). And would Brithos even accept such missionaries on the island? Openness to new ideas isn't exactly their thing.

Occupational experience?

This is so interesting - it shows that Elves already had a somewhat independent tradition of Illumination. Picked up from pre-Nysalor Solar connections?

Agree - "Daka Fal" is basically just a label to put on "Ancestor Worship".

Although Daka Fal used to be an associated cult of Kyger Litor's (and at a guess, will be again), so supposedly it's available to trolls as well?

Yeah, just jails. Why have a prison when you can have a DX-run re-education work camp somewhere horrible instead?

Mmm, I run Illumination more as an elite state, something the overwhelming percentage of people will never achieve (and probably even fewer chaotics, as mental discipline and intellectual excellence tends to go poorly with chaoticism in most cases), no matter how practical it is. The Lunar Heartlands is almost certainly the most illuminated place in Glorantha, and I can’t imagine more than a couple percent of the population are Illuminated.

In my book, this would absolutely require Illumination - Vivamort/Nontraya is the archenemy of Ernalda (and I see Land/Grain Godesses mostly as local variations and subcults of Ernalda). Without Illumination, Spirits of Reprisal would hit you like a brick. It’s only one step up from Humakti vampires. Of course, you have a partially Chaos-aligned Dorasta, which makes this more feasible. But even so, there’s an obvious tension between a fertility cult and vampirism (which is all about stealing life).

My take on Dorastor is that I keep turning it down from 11. 🙂