Bill the barbarian

Heck I will do you one better, though there have been corporate entities in the history of RuneQuest, I will bet there have never been any listed in any of the core books as possible foes or allies.

Barbarians! and ducks...

Looking forward to it.

Was wondering where you had got to. I see I need not have wondered. You obviously were just waiting for the right lead-in for a slam dunk, eh? Cheers

YHIS?

Tnamks MOB! You too!I have just heard my fave Xmas tune. “You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch" now I can get into the season! And to help spread that cheer in the spirit of the OP might I suggest you gather the whole family in front of the tree or on the neighbours porch bright and early tomorrow morning with the following lyrics all printed and ready for singing. Happy carolling! [Verse 1]You're a mean one, Mr. GrinchYou really are a heelYou're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. GrinchYou're a bad banana with a greasy black peel![Verse 2]You're a monster, Mr. GrinchYour heart's an empty holeYour brain is full of spiders, you've got garlic in your soul, Mr. GrinchI wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole![Verse 3]You're a vile one, Mr. GrinchYou have termites in your smileYou have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. GrinchGiven a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile![Verse 4]You're a foul one, Mr. GrinchYou're a nasty-wasty skunkYour heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. GrinchThe three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote"Stink, stank, stunk!"[Verse 5]You're a rotter, Mr. GrinchYou're the king of sinful sotsYour heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. GrinchYour soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgracefulAssortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots! [Verse 6]You nauseate me, Mr. GrinchWith a nauseous super "naus"!You're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. GrinchYou're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce! Doest that make you warm all over, hmm? Cheers!

Sigh, and here is your lump of coal you naughty little boy, giving grief on Krampus Eve!.

The Smoking Ruins = Tactical Studies Rules, no? They are both TSR and one (TSR) is definitely in the other (the smoking ruins), no?

I would say yes, by acting like the kind of human who would ask that question:) In fact I would say that a ZZ would finding acting in a scott-martin like way would be crossing so many moral lines it would send him fleeing to mother-superior for correction immediately! As Joerg says, Sandy Petersen (I believe) has a great write up of a troll being kept in a cell with a trollkin no food and tracking all the things the troll did eat (bedding, mattress, bed, buckets contents, bucket...) and we will close the shades on the moment there was nothing left to eat but the trollkin (remember trolls can eat ANYTHING) The description of the eating was that of a devotee on a pilgrimage!

Thanks MOB a little more digging shows the error as occurring after the Chaosium. I appreciate the speed of your answer! Cheers

For some reason, ducks! Most ducks, (have not got stats, I will state up from, this is purely subjective) in RQ seem to have crossbows... Go figure.

Now careful Rodney, no need to give Santa a reason to bypass yer house now is there. Disagree for sure, but no need to get hot. It causes ones aim to falter. I am sure Shawn was walking by and giving a thought. Qizilbashwoman is not saying anything she has not said many a time before. It just might be egg nog time.Or time for more in my case. Cheers

Off topic, Would you do me a little favour and judicially quote what you are responding to (Simply highlight as much as you wish to quote and then hover your curser for a second near the selection and a quote radio button will show up below and near the selection, click it and you will be taken to an open text box with your selection already quoted and space for your response, repeat as need, thanks) or be a little more directional in your responses. When reading several fora it helps when it it is easy to see what folk are talking about and this Thread does have its nuances to follow... Hell, many of the ones I follow do for that matter. Cheers

Greetings and welcome to BRP Zagmuk, good call! Having seen the maps of The One Ring all being done twice (as far as I call tell, all not an orlanthi all), once as Players and once as lore masters. Great.

Should we follow this up, being Canadian I acrtually like to pay taes, but I would much prefer to pay Canadian taxes. Any idea where which Caesar is getting out shekels for their nations taxes/pockets? Can we get them back please? Should we be following this up with @Dustin O'Chaosium intead of bothering you good sir? Thank you very much in advance MOB!

Thank you all, for this great topic, I have for decades used multiple coins to represent silver coins on the ancient and incredible heavily trafficked trade routes traversing the Pass... guilders, lunars, oddities from antiquity, something from the HC that I can not recall the name of now oddballs from all over the world—all in the various regions of the Pass. which is an idea I got from a Great Old One or... canon? All, of course, being accepted under the Umbrella of an Issaries Great Market Spells. Doing deals outside of an Issaries market carried many risks, lunar protective trade magics were not as powerful, AA trade magics might not see the same risks the human traders might... shaved or counterfeit coins , to cursed ones (rumour, tarnished silver that can not one cleaned). and even misunderstandings, or religious rivalry, adventure hooks galore! The Copper pieces I used to think of as being a deeply etched round copper coins that could be easily chiseled into 4 slices of pie (the LM claimed, in my Glorantha that this is how pi came to be), cleanly or roughly bitten by some or snapped apart by others (giving me ha’ pennies or quarter farthings back in the penny silver coin days of RQ 3). The modern view of the Earth Runed and metaled square copper coins with square holes that could be perhaps broken in half . I doubt that they would break them in half on the horizontal though as the result wold be a squarish looking U shaper coin perhaps resembling the chaos rune a little to closely for some I would think. So breaking a clack into four or half on the diagonal might work and would yield two or four slices that resemble the old law rune triangle or maybe the beast rune to a degree with a inverted triangle taken out Story wise than means would would get 4 pieces of law missing a piece of law from the earth or perhaps 4 beasts taken from four beast from out of the good red Earth (now that sounds a bit more like a myth a bit of an apocalyptic one but...) I love Joerg's idea of illumination rumours (think the american one dollar bill’s illuminati pyramid rumour for instance, more so amongst america's enemies or illuminati believers) and the breaking of a Lunar coin to show disdain by desecrating it while paying for something ironic... Great! Oh and finally thanks Joerg for clearing up the AA sketchiness. That makes sense. Cheers

I like the Japanese coin used as the foundation of their coinage system that in antiquity was equivalent of the rice need to live fo ra year. ETA And @Crel that had to be a bad pun, I have seem nothing to cause doubt in Argan Argar dealing fair.

The Sacred Time when many cults celebrate the weaving of the the Great Compromise and the first sunrise (and its return), the beginning of time and the remaking of the world, This falls between winter and spring or Storm and Sea seasons.... ETA, though this is not solstice... hmmm

Asking me in a month, I am trying my first HQ game, ever in the new year. I do declare I swooned when that happened to moi. I don’t think he noticed... shh don’t tell him, eh, Don't forget, each of the two volumes is large enough to use for armed personal combat. I recommend starting serious weight training before trying to use both at the same time. (but the damage, man, the damage!). Cheers

stealing that pic for my own nefarious purposes, thanks Qizilbashwoman!

Canadian as well.

Here ya go kid take a couple of clacks and buy yerself an ice-cream cone and head this flyer it’ll cheer ya up... Cynical at his age... https://www.chaosium.com/the-smoking-ruin-other-stories-pdf/

Yozarian, I have a new member for your gang of bandits!

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NICE MAPS!