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It's also easy to picture minor or local gods, spirits and wyters who accept human sacrifice. Perhaps your neighbouring clan drowns captives in their black tarn?

Another reasonable interpretation is that if they're up on a wall, they will just attack you with missile weapons, improvised if that's what it takes.

Although you will have to decide whether "most effective and expedient" (my emphasis) implies that it must actually be effective and expedient - under one reasoning, something really dangerous and difficult could still be the most effective and expedient way, if nothing else is available. 🙂

Improved POW gain for (proper) God-talkers is a huge deal (for PCs).

RQG actively lists it when a cult has God-talkers, though, and doesn't mention it for Issaries.

Unsure of whether it’s supposed to stop supernatural horror.

Isn’t it a bit surprising that a Taunt spell would be so rare and not in the warrior god cults? Anyone who’s looking to defend others couldn’t do better. (And isn’t ”Distraction” an odd choice of name? To me, that sounds like something you would cast to sneak past a guard or something.)

If it's a fellow PC is roleplaying out the angst, let them do it until you think it's enough before you pop Solace on them to get them to calm down. No-one wants their soliloquy interrupted.

Or the enemies up on the city walls, when you're at ground level... 🙂

That seems completely unreasonable - surely you’re allowed to not take a new spell, especially if you know them all? I would always allow the POW sacrifice, and saying you can sacrifice for RPs within a Sanctified area but not receive any spell seems like a good interpretation.

Hey, a ”taunt”! You don’t see that every day in BRP games!

Bilious, the Oh God of hangovers?

I believe you can probably HeroQuest for initiation and priesthood status, if you don't have the key people in place. It's just much more of a bother.

On the flip side, a shrine might be uniquely specialized. Perhaps this is the only one in the world that knows the secret of Orlanth Frog-of-Thunder?

Can you unpack that? Is it the +4 rating?

And if you keep fishing at the same hole, you will only have to get rid of recent ice.

I think you will often have decent chances to be taught by a shaman - it’s just that they’re not looking to be paid in something as boring as cash. Expect to have to run errands!

Who needs a worship bonus when you get +10% from an MP? 🙂 I've yet to see a single Worship roll of under 95%. This is true, but that's more useful than crucial.

Probably sensible. No restriction on the severely elongated ones, though?

EDIT: My mistake - I thought I was smart by searching for "spell teaching", but for God-talkers it actually does say "As with Rune Priests, a God-talker may teach other cult members the spirit magic spells they know. They may charge for this service in the same fashion as a Rune Priest." So yes, God-Talkers can teach spells. One question that emerges is whether they can just choose not to take pay and hand out all the free Spirit Magic knowledge they feel like (and have time for) to other cult members (lay membership counts and is often easily accomplished to minimal cost) in the party? It seems so, and there doesn't seem to be any inherent cost involved.

Do we know this for a fact? I mean it makes sense and all, but I thought the same thing about needing a priest to lead worship, and the rules don't state it (and in fact somewhat suggest the opposite - "If one or both parents were cult initiates, the adventurer may join simply by sacrificing 1 point of POW"). (And at least going by RAW, you can explicitly regain Rune Points in a merely Sanctified area - "Ceremonies are performable within a Sanctified area that normally can be performed only in a temple, such as replenishing Rune points.")

Huh. So priests are actually a bit extraneous? You can have them as magical specialists, but you don't really need them? "Priesthood of all initiates"? Good news for Vostor, I guess! 🙂 Always, always save one Rune Point if you can't trust you will have temple access, since as long as you can just Sanctify, you will get a regain! It also makes getting Banned less impressive than it sounds, since you can just DIY the worship.

There is a certain elegance to the complete being concept, something that has values in each characteristic.

You need a Rune Level to officiate the service, but if you have that, you’re all set, sure.