Akhôrahil

Personally, I'm getting sick and tired of Sartar in general at this point, and with all the Jonstown Compendium stuff coming out, honestly "yet another Sartar Clan campaign" is among the least exciting things I can imagine. (However, I'm probably an outlier, so go ahead and do what you feel like doing - that's far more important than trying to please me specifically! But goddamnit would I love a Safelster, East Isles, Fronela or Fonrit campaign!)

That’s what happens when you don’t thank them properly and respectfully for their sacrifice.

Or for that matter, how they can use it reliably when they don't receive any skill in it. Not that there are any rules-consequences for failure...

Yes, exactly. He's presented as one in the rulebook and the lore, though. Hence the mismatch.

Shargash, probably? Solars as a rule seem more fond of soldier and officer deities than warrior ones, but Yelmalio can't even do that.

It's not overrated when Yelmalio is on the list of good picks for gods for a warrior, but that character will then be constantly overshadowed in fights even by many non-warrior characters due to bad magic. Even if you don't believe in game balance, you should probably believe in niche protection.

I would say rather, CA will call on heroquesters, but success in the HQ is not guaranteed. We know from the Goddess Swap that gods aren’t immune to mortals, nor can they count on their worshipers to always sort things out.

Eastern Mystics must be unusually annoyed when people try to worship them!

Understanding of the metaphysics.

Or one to fix five! #trolleyproblem

Interesting, I would have thought that was part of Worship, but this is a great point. At the very least, you should be able to Augment with Peaceful Cut.

I wonder If it’s possible to do ”attack” worship - if a god cannot resist worship, you might be able to make some kind of ”injection attack” using deliberately misconstrued worship. You might sacrifice inappropriate stuff, perform sabotaged rituals, recite made-up myths, or perhaps the MPs you sacrifice might be tainted (chaotic, originating from inappropriate sacrifices, and so on)? The god won’t be the least bit happy about this, but as you’re probably some kind of Illuminate, God Learner or other actor capable of defending yourself against Agents of Reprisal if you’re doing this kind of thing, that might not be enough to stop you. I mean, what does happen if you perform human sacrifices to Chalana Arroy, and can handle the divine defences? Could you generate, at least locally, “Bloody-Handed Chalana”?

Yes (p. 436). Ban also makes a heck of a lot more sense - a priest can boss over his temple, but your Initiate status is between you and your god.

With the Sami, fishing was a big deal.

I think they are so heretical that they pose as just regularly heretical, because otherwise even other heretics would think they went too far.

It also makes sense to consider whether this is a "natural" transfer, which should be a lot more acceptable. An older woman moving from Ernalda to Asrelia is business a usual (I would even support being allowed to bring Rune Points along in this case). Transfer to Humakt or Chalana Arroy due to re-life sickness, this is surely known and accepted as a natural thing that the priesthood don't get to stand in the way of.

P. 181: "This skill is also known as butchering. It includes the ability to dismember an animal in the quickest and most efficient way, and the ability to divide up a prey animal in the traditional manner." I also use it for skinning, where relevant. I do think RQ3 had the better solution, though.

Absolutely agree, but that's because pulling the sword is a separate action. The same duck, Slowed (SR 13 for the fist), should not be incapable of attack, IMO. I would say the attack happens on SR1 next turn, but the ruling that you get to do it on SR 12 anyway isn't crazy either.

Is that a thing (barring possibly Pavis)?

One practical implication is that if it means “vegetable matter” rather than “veggies”, by any standards your cost of living should increase. Meat isn’t cheap.

One PC in my group made a thief who turned hunter. That also worked.

Also, you can pretty much expect every Hunter heroquest to have a Peaceful Cut check at some point, and that's not going to be automatic. I agree with what you're saying - if you always succeed, it doesn't matter. If you don't always succeed, then some characters should be better at some things than others. And I really wish the Rules Questions thread was handled better than it is - it tends be defensive, not acknowledging actual issues but coming up with some handwave instead, and not always even care too much about how the rules are actually written and just make up rules as they go along (like how Jason is trying to tell us that you can't cast multiple Spirit Magic spells in a round, even though the rules clearly support this).

Herders make much better Hunters than Hunters do.

Well... that's just because they are usually the only things in combat that take so long. If you manage to come up with anything else you want to do that takes 13 SRs, that will have to wrap around, or it can't ever be performed.

This is bad, but the true craziness is that they don't get Peaceful Cut.