Akhôrahil

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.

Not usually, but if you're performing an action that takes 13+ Strike Ranks, it does. This is how big Sorcery spells or that really humongous Sword Trance gets cast, when they can't fit into one round. This means that in some cases, something with a 13 SR cost will be cast quicker than something with 12 SRs. That's just the way it works.

Actually, why is Yelmalio depicted in armor all the time, if it’s such big deal and part of a Good Thing that he lost it?

With both Shield and Earthshield, Ernalda makes a better warrior cult than Yelmalio. I find this highly amusing.

Thanks, beat me to it. Ernalda has the biggest spell list in the game.

I have the idea that Tradetalk includes an accounting system (like Incan knot ”writing”) without having a full written language (because what would be the point?).

This makes sense though. In the kind of setting Glorantha (especially the Barbarian parts) is, reading and writing are like piloting a jet aircraft - highly technical, really demanding, only taught by experts, and not something you do unless it’s your job. We’re not even talking antiquity or the Middle Ages here, and I doubt 1% of Sartar is literate (if it is, it will be mostly be because of the Lhankor Mhy cult).

I realized that half my players had thought that when I said "cult skills", I referred to those they get from start, not the ones in the cult description. I thought this design is asking for that kind of misunderstanding.

I'm sure counting as your own Ancestor opens up all kinds of shenanigans with Daka Fal rune magic!

And queue all the time travel paradoxes - what if you went back in myth and killed your ancestor?

I wonder if Illumination might also serve as a "cure". Doubt should probably get listed under Passions these days.

Tell him I approve and that I'm cheering for his success!

Although I could see a little bit of leeway here, if you "change" something that no-one knows anything about. Perhaps you could force Paragua to make a mistake and create a hidden weakness in one spot of the wall, and later you "find" this weakness in the real world?

Yes, if it’s a sufficiently mythical event, ideally where the Compromise is a bit shaky already. Castle Blue, Battle of Night and Day, Orlanth vs. Zistor...

Magic Rune, so whatever Cult Rune you feel like for any Cult spirit, by the rules as written (p. 317).

Perhaps not 5%, but yes - The World Is Made Of Everything. Even Argrath has a little Moon element in him.

Shield will make a giant difference - it’s basically the best spell in the book, with no weaknesses and overwhelming defensive power, and you only need one good combat spell to dump your Rune Points into in order to be credible in a fight.

Or if you think the obsidian thing is a bit high tech, merely the kind of snow goggles polar expeditions used (which keep out light and reflections) should be a lot better than nothing. Scott's snow goggles Inuit-style snow goggles, bone

Maybe this? ”I reject your reality and substitute my own!”