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Akhôrahil

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  1. D&D and Pathfinder will be severely difficult to dislodge from the first two places.
  2. Warhammers and rondel daggers will penetrate through plate. This is fairly immaterial in Glorantha though, as except possibly for dwarves, no-one will be fully covered in armor.
  3. Shark Tooth sword. (But it’s not hard to imagine what happens to it if you strike metal.)
  4. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/gloranthan-documents/greg-sez/doggods/
  5. I run it that if you lost them from something mundane, like exhaustion or disease, you regain them through rest as though they were HPs. It seems weird to me if you never recover naturally from mild diseases. I also like to give people CON damage for exhaustion or exposure (because regular damage is so trivial no-one cares), and then they deserve natural regain. I don’t believe any of this is RAW, though.
  6. You can also roll special/crit while he doesn’t. This is the more likely way.
  7. Another factor here is that you really don’t want to fail your Spirit Dance roll for the Fetch, so that one should ideally be at 95%. One year makes a substantial difference.
  8. We had a recent Shaman initiation, and he got out without losing a single round and winning a couple (which was admittedly lucky). 175% sounds overwhelming, but it really isn’t. Spirit Combat in excess of 100% is to be expected, and getting in a Special augment has good odds when you work on it, so I would expect the would-be shaman to enter with something like 125-140% Spirit combat. Since win-win is probably the most likely roll, playing defence is pretty doable. If you try to iniate right away with your starting Apprentice Shaman, things will be harder, but this seems like malpractice by your teacher.
  9. No, this is the Hagodereth heroquest - not all that glitters is a Gold Wheel Dancer. It’s based on Talastari mythology. https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/websites/moondesign-com/jeffs-old-blogs/bearded-storm-and-hagodereth-and-wyters-2/
  10. I mean though, it's literally the name of the spell and it says it's an oath... 🙂 "Contractual Obligation" sounds more like an Issaries spell. I would agree that it's probably used most when you either want to make a point of how serious things are, or when you're not sure about the other party. And oaths without the spell are still to be taken seriously.
  11. This is my take on swearing on the River Styx: There are many different ways to take an oath, and one we know about is the oath to Humakt, backed by the Oath-spell. This "merely" kills you if you break it (and then bad things happen to you in the Underworld as an oathbreaker), but this seems to be considered right and proper among the Orlanthi - taking this oath is surely a sign of honor and dedication, and praiseworthy. But then there's swearing on the River Styx, and this simply isn't the done thing - it seems that it's too much, even for this culture. Too much - when the kosher option is to get killed outright and doomed in the afterlife. What I take this as, is that it's not merely a case of "these are the consequences if you break it" - instead, it twists Fate around the oath, binding the user to it. As a comparison, it could be like the combination of the Oath of Fëanor and the Doom of Mandos... possibly squared. This is what I mean by saying you surrender your free will - it's now replaced with the driving force of that oath that should not be taken. I don't think Argrath could turn aside from it, or prioritize anything above it. He's being wielded by Fate, now.
  12. I think one of the problems here is what we see happening in the comic - he swears on the River Styx, and that essentially means revoking his free will and any concerns whatsoever apart from that oath (this is the reason no sensible person swears that way, or is expected to). This is why, as you say, he's a mere object now, a plot-point that walks like a man. He gave himself up 100% to Fate, and this is what happens to you when you do that. It would be a tragedy, except for all the damage he does. It doesn't help that the whole White Bull thing is essentially Dances With Bisons, where he has to show the Praxians how to do their own culture properly.
  13. Although at least he has the occasional friend. Argrath doesn't have friends - he has tools.
  14. Book of Heortling Mythology is your best source, but she’s in King of Sartar as well.
  15. Wilderness Goddess of Dragon Pass (where she is known as Velhara) and Balazar, at the very least. Sometimes identified with Orogeria, although this always strikes me as a bit odd. Mother of Odayla and Ormalaya (Orlanth the Hunter), although myths seem to sometimes differ. It stands to reason that she’s in some way associated with Ladies of the Wild (Bestiary).
  16. For wild nature specifically, there's the Lady of the Wild. But that's still just a subset.
  17. The most clear-cut nature spirits in Glorantha are nymphs of various kinds, and also landscape spirits. And while nymphs are female, there's no reason to think landscape spirits would all be, I think.
  18. Yes, there’s this tension in the rules that’s not really resolved - by rights, a ”Passion” should be all about your own state of mind, but it also doubles as a relationship or social status meter. I don’t like it - it makes it quite unclear exactly what it’s supposed to be. If Stickpicker Vargast is fanatically loyal to his clan but widely disparaged and disliked, doesn’t he still have a sky-high Loyalty without being able to get anything done politically?
  19. Giants have the same skin as humans (presumably), but it’s thicker because they’re bigger. Same thing ought to hold for tuskers vs. boars.
  20. Almost always, you should be able to just erase any passion that goes below 50% - it no longer really does anything. But keeping it for flavor purposes is fine, too. Honor might be an exception, as if you want to raise it in the future, you might have to dig yourself out of a bad score first.
  21. This seems like an oversight in the design, agree.
  22. Or she is, and… PCs: ”Kallyr Starbrow! We have heroquested far and wide to find the Pole Star and return you to life to save Sartar!” Kallyr: ”Again, for those ingrates? I’ll just stay here with my boyfriend. He’s… stellar.”
  23. Although remember that this only works if AA is an established husband-protector there.
  24. Normally, the PCs will start off with all their Rune Points just from their regular by-the-book Worship. But sometimes someone might have an obscure cult they have problems with replenishing from, or they have a huge pool in one cult that doesn’t always fil up from one Holy Day’s worth of Worship, or they have to do multiple things in a season. I find the standard rules to do a good job here. My house rule instead is to remove RP regain from minor holy days worship, because that causes enormous amounts of it and a lot of rolls and tracking.
  25. Or given the body count among his followers, unlucky. You are, after all, completely expendable.
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