Akhôrahil

I would rule that as that you experience the sudden thought and belief, but then your experience of your actual emotions will prove the belief incorrect. This isn’t different than telling someone the sky is green and orange plaid - they will believe you only until they see the sky next time, and even while they believe you, they will still remember that it used to be blue and that this new state of affairs sounds really unusual.

Considering that there are heirlooms with bound spirits, at least in these cases, they must be easily transferable.

Lie can achieve things I would not allow even on a Fast Talk crit.

And then he had to go and show her his stick! http://etyries.albionsoft.com/etyries.com/folktale/loststick.html

"When the Gods War perverted the world, the earth brought forth its own grim defender. Babeester Gor was born from her mother’s corpse, axes in hand, body ritually scarred to carry deadly magic. She destroyed all kin-slayers, all oath-breakers who swore by her mother, and everything which desecrated the sacred places of the earth. She was merciless and cruel. Once she slew so many defenseless residents of Healing Valley that she waded breast-deep in the gore, drinking the blood of victory and slaughter. Eurmal saved some of the healers when he turned the blood to beer, which Babeester Gor drank to blissful oblivion." https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/gloranthan-documents/prosopaedia/deities/b/babeester-gor/ (Murdering innocent people in Healing Valley seems to be a regular activity among war gods - Humakt does it as well.)

Only saw this now - RQG has a hide as worth 500 L for tax purposes. Since this also makes perfect sense compared to flocks, I’m pretty sure it’s the most basic number to use.

RQ isn't quite the right kind of game for it, but as rule, Player-Facing is a good design. Players like to roll for things, but the GM rolling is mostly just a chore.

I don't believe "Passive Search" is a thing, unless perhaps there's some declaration from the players that they are going to take everything very slowly and carefully in the ruin (which is basically the declaration "we search everything!"). Remember, "Search takes one melee round per 2×2 meter area searched", so it can't happen if you just walk at regular pace (and actually, just one melee round is really generous in the first place!).

Perhaps one of the most powerful ways to use Lie would be to make people believe you're an authority figure that they don't dare disobey. "I'm the Red Emperor in disguise" may not be mind-control, but even completely unreasonable requests are likely to be granted by people who genuinely believe that this is the case.

The bond is a just legal and social construct, isn’t it? The chief says ”hey, this trickster is under my protection, and I will cover the costs”? It can be recalled at any moment (and a sign of a wise chief is one who does so before the sudden but inevitable betrayal).

If you use Lie and say "this statement is a lie", Mostali will have a meltdown. Or so I've heard.

We must have had very different Malk experiences!

A Gloranthan Molotov Cocktail would be a very angry small Fire elemental captured inside a magically sealed clay jar that will break on impact.

I would imagine it matters a lot what the surface is. Hay or threshing room floor, sure. Stone tiles, not so much.

Yeah, this. You want burning fluid to flow down into the engine compartment. Otherwise, when not used against vehicles, the most you can hope for is to set something flammable on fire. It was useful enough that the Soviets constructed the Molotov Projector, a spigot-operated device to toss them further.

Isn't the whole point of lamp oil that it will only burn through the use of a wick? Not sure you can even put a puddle of lamp oil on fire in any simple way. It's not gasoline, or even ethanol.

This isn’t at all in the rules, but is a very cool idea. Opposed rolls for runes would make a great mechanic.

I'm thinking we ought to have numbers for time and workforce to raise a basic wood Motte-and-Bailey castle? No real idea, though.

Move and SR is a huge headache under the current rules, doubly so with fast creatures, triply so with mounts. I'm just winging it so far, but...

It stands to reason that there were High Priests of Orlanth Rex before the Kingdom of Sartar was formed, I think? Also, maybe you can have a hierarchy among High Priests? I imagine that huge and top-heavy organizations like Lunar cults would have any number of priestly ranks above regular Priest?

I always assumed it was the Tribal Kings.

Ah, thanks, wasn't aware of that! Would that require picking up a Mastery rune (however you do that), or is that just for Initiates and up (actually, who would be an non-Priest Initiate of Orlanth Rex?)? Has Orlanth Rex changed a lot? It always used to be about the political leadership being able to dominate the religious leadership, but with those role having merged almost completely in RQG, does it even make sense to separate the hierarchies that way?

Wouldn't she be like the only one in all of the Colymar tribe to worship Orlanth Rex, though?

Current CoC is a more modern ruleset than the ”it’s still 1978, damnit!” RQG, so that sounds promising.

You can probably argue that the Uleria temple has a... what should we call it... ”independent revenue stream”? This income-from-services might work for a CA temple that provides a lot of healing services as well, and is likely a significant part of the income for Humakti temples. An Issaries temple might have no land but a ton of tithing from wealthy merchants. And so on.