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Only if you assume all women get pregnant every year throughout their adult life. 🙂 This does not seem like any Glorantha I know. Take the following math instead: Women who receive Bless Pregnancy only need three pregnancies to bear 4,65 children, which is well above replacement level assuming the 50% child mortality before 15 that the rulebook suggests. At this point, it takes very mild adjustments to your numbers to secure it for everyone - even just 2% dedicated midwives who put in 4-5 Rune Points per year.

In CoP, it does say "horseback". And the name is something of a giveaway.

In Orlanthi society, I would imagine the percentage corresponds roughly with how many are initiated to Ernalda, which is probably something like 70% among women of fertile age? Which in turns correspond to about the percentage of Free or higher social class. And there's been a move away from having "Wizard magic only" in the West, towards all kinds of lesser cults among the people. I would imagine a substantial percentage of (human) women everywhere in Glorantha have access to various pregnancy-boosting magic. If somehow Bless Pregnancy isn't available to the regular initiate (why?) then things change, but in that case, it will instead create a demand for the spell from those who have it. I mean, one measly point of Rune Magic for two thirds of a year to secure the health of the mother and the child and avoid pains and complications, that seems like a fantastic deal. If somehow only a few percent of the population has access to it, then it should still be very common to see it cast.

I would imagine that a majority is blessed with at least 1 point, though - this doesn't produce any supermen, but it seems like a no-brainer to drop one POW into 1 Rune Point + Bless Pregnancy the first time if no-one else is doing it for you and to cast at least one point's worth of Bless Pregnancy, even if it does lock up that Rune Point for two-thirds of a year.

This is of course also what is pastisched at the end of The Reminiscences of Paulis Longvale, with Paulis and Oddi.

I doubt there's a lot in canonical sources. Guide: "1619 (7/48): Karse, a strategic port city in Heortland, is taken in a surprise naval assault by the Lunars (mounted from Corflu in the Wastelands). " "Karse (small city): Karse is the most important port for offloading goods destined for Sartar, or through Sartar to Prax and Tarsh. The locals are expert boat makers. Temples to Diros, Pelaskos, Poverri, and Choralinthor stand near the harbor. Despite its strong fortifications, the city fell to the Lunars in 1619 after a dramatic assault by land and sea." The whole thing was a Fazzur operation.

RQG backgrounds: 1624: Jaldon summoned 1625: Fall of Pavis (so this seems to be the official answer)

1624 (reasonably, Sea season): The raising of the Sky Ship/return of the Boat planet. While not immediately connected to Pavis or the Zola Fel river, this is noted as being a cross-Glorantha event (and its result will be seen everywhere), and having the PCs join something arranged by the Zola Fel priesthood and Diros worshipers seems more than reasonable. Also, some people argue a connection to the Cradle here.

1625: The Whitebull army defeated by by a three-armed demon (possibly Cwim).

Going by the document https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/gloranthan-documents/history-of-glorantha/timeline-dragonpass/1616-1625-the-conquest-of-the-holy-country/ (which is still credible in this period): 1619: Fall of Karse, which is relevant because the naval invasion was launched from Corflu. 1620: Argrath performs the Drinking the Giant's Cauldron heroquest 1621: Gimgim returns to the Lunar Empire 1624: Pennel Ford, and people everywhere will see the full Orlanth's Ring rise for the first time since forever. 1624: Corflu liberated by the Whitebull 1625: Liberation of Pavis (so not sure now if the correct date is 1624 or -25)

Yep, caught that, but thanks!

1624: Pavis falls to the Whitebull (not sure what Argrath interpretation you're going with). The upcoming P&tBR stuff from Robin D. Laws presumably starts soon after this.

The Windstop is Dark/Death/Wind 1621 to Earth/Disorder/Clay 1622. (EDIT: mistakenly was one year early for both before, which would have had massive consequences for the Cradle if true! 🙂 ) Note that it only just covers the River of Cradles, and the Wastelands are unaffected. You may have to decide how Orlanth & Ernalda magic is affected outside it (I'm running with double Rune point cost in my campaign). https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Windstop-in-Prax.jpg

I ran a more advanced Daka Fal shamanic initiation than the ”fight an Ancestor” one , where the PC followed the path of Daka Fal, getting killed by Humakt, getting offered (and refusing, because oh boy if the player had accepted…) the ”gift” of Vivamort, ending up in the Underworld (and having to asset his authority when Yelm arrived) and returning to the world to separate the living from the dead (I tossed in a second Vivamort/Nontraya encounter there, because what better symbol of false Life?), and after concluding the initiation heavily suggesting that in a way, the shaman would only truly be completing the quest by eventually dying again.

I don't run it like that at all, and it's not what the Heal Wound spell seem to say (it strongly indicates the exact opposite). It's also non-obvious why a certain magic should be able to heal burns to a body part (which it very clearly does) but not full-body burns - where's the logic in that?

This fix was extremely necessary. Before it, Extension was simply massively abusable. (Bless Crops as Instant already mentioned, I saw when continuing reading.)

You're mostly correct that it's pointless in the face of proper healing, but there might be some corner cases, namely things that aren't merely common damage. For instance, you can't heal poison damage using spirit magic Heal or Heal wound (you can with Heal Body, but that's 3 Rune Points, so it costs a bit). Healing trance accelerates normal healing though, so it will fast-heal poison damage. Same thing if the GM has assigned (as I like to do) temporary Characteristic damage that will heal with natural healing (such as CON damage from being thirsty or exposed to the elements).

Also, I think it makes sense to say that only since Time could things be historically true, but before that they could be mythically true. Take the Grazers. We know, for a fact, that their origin myth of being centaurs separated into men and horses isn't the historical truth. But it can still be mythically true, and is - you can heroquest the myth, despite the fact that it never actually happened (where "fact", "actually" and "historically" are irrelevant words when it comes to mythical content).

Possibly, but there weren't many of them at that point. It's also possible that they missed it, because things might not have looked very metaphysically differently locally. Perhaps it was like waking after a maximally realistic dream? You could visit Cragspider and ask, I guess? Yes - little need for royal or imperial lines otherwise, for instance. Yes, or we wouldn't have had any new adults, the way we clearly do. Yes, but this was only true locally. Basically, people must have felt that things happened one after the other and were causally connected, but this was only locally true. There was no universal order of events, and no objective or non-contradicting reality (it existed but was subjective and contradictory). No-one could say whether event A happened before event B if they were separated enough, or whether myth 1 or its variant myth 2 was what "really" happened (there was no such "really"). Once Time happens though, we get linear, universal time, a non-contradictory mundane world, real and objective causal connections, and historical (as opposed to mythical) truths. Except when the Godtime intrudes or the Compromise is broken. All IMO.

It feels like the wolves really need some kind of longevity, or older Telmori will never have a wolf companion (a regular wolf gets maybe 12 years at most).

I agree with the reasoning that getting up to at least 3 Rune Points will be very common because it’s clearly worth it. Sure, POW is nice, but two points less doesn’t make a world of difference (and this is assuming NPCs don’t get as much POW gain as PCs), but 3 Rune Points is pretty mindblowing. You can be able to heal yourself perfectly (Heal Body), have a decent chance of taking out any regular enemy combatant in one magical blow (Lightning 3 or Thunderbolt), and your pick of flight or teleportation. It’s very hard to argue that you’d rather have two more POW, even as an NPC.

This was changed to via Jolly Fat Man in the Earth Cults book, btw.

It can be! First, there's some low-hanging fruit - always let the players roll the resistance table roll, for instance. After that, it gets a lot trickier. One way you could make a BRP system player facing is by doing what Symbaroum does - translated to RuneQuest, this means that players roll their attacks and their defence, the GM rolls neither, and that the roll is their skill modified by the opponent's skill (Player skill + 50% - Opponent skill). This will also make combats a lot quicker as defence becomes a lot more unreliable. This can be applied to ranged combat as well (and will help to make shields a lot better if Shield or Dodge are the only ways you get a defence at all versus arrows). You will have to decide how to interpret results - a Fumbled defence rolls probably means you eat a critical hit, but how does an opponent get in a Special? Perhaps it will be worth tracking "special failure" where the player fails at the highest 1/5th (the same way special successes are the lowest 1/5th) For damage, tell the players to roll the damage against themselves when opponents hit. You will still have to decide on some things - for instance, how do you treat opponents casting Spirit Magic or Rune Magic in combat? Letting them auto-succeed probably isn't particularly unbalancing, though.

I can believe this if perhaps 10-30% counts as ”many”. If it’s suppposed to be the majority, then the published material just isn’t written that way.

If you look at the published setting material, they typically do. Guards, soldiers and militiamen commonly have 3, as well as the ”Typical Citizen” in the Starter Set.