Bill the barbarian

Just now, g33k said:

How about an Aldryami healer-cult?

Good call for a half elf!

9 minutes ago, Ian A. Thomson said:

Bevara (from what people have been saying) is now firmly an Ernaldan subcult

I'd want to make it a shared subcult with Pavis, so that males can also be part of it, although since Vingans worship Orlanth maybe there is 'Bevaro' for the minority of fellas who are drawn to heal? I am not implying here that they need to be 'feminine' to follow this path, no more than being a fighting Vingan means you must act like a man.

Can't one be a male Ernaldan initiate... to be higher one has to have been pregnant (given birth to a healthy child)... but that should not be impossible for a Gloranthan male. And do not forget shaman priests, hell even a shaman with the right spirits on hand! I believe Daka Fal shamans can do one use resurrections!

14 minutes ago, Ian A. Thomson said:

Bevara?

I am reverting to an idea from the original series

Old Pavic folk would have far less use for someone like Chalana Arroy as opposed to someone who can grab an axe and slice into the spine of a nomad/broo/ogre/troll when required

CA seems like a luxury they couldn't afford

Thanks

Have not, but if I can postulate... My fave kick butt healer is an Ernaldan!

ETA

Or a shaman priest of any flavour that has Heal Wound!

Just now, Ali the Helering said:

Rootless Aldryami can be interesting to have in a group, but only in the hands of an experienced and capable player.  If not, they're a complete disaster.

Exactly. If the player is advanced and the GM is advanced... magic!

5 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Sorry I missed that, I am getting older, not old yet but getting there and missed the small print!

Me, without my glasses I would not have been able to see that either. So do you have Sartar Companion old timer?

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Reminds me of some other portable shines like in Indian Jones movies... or those in Spain or Japan (armor versus fundoshi) that are paraded in the streets. I can totally relate but can't see them being on a dungeon crawl no matter how portable... but a sword or other weapon?

It is very cool!  Thanks again.

 

That's what I was remarking on being cool! Innit (English slang for isn't it).

You're welcome! Thanks for all your great questions over the years and your great topics.

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(Should I not be clipping items? If so I'll stop and my apologies!)

Well, I believe a pic to make a point is cool, and a look around these fora should confirm my guess. I had asked David Scott on discord about cutting and pasting text to make a point and this one is a bit more unclear to me. How much is too much. I agree with copy-write laws and love Chaosium so I prefer to ask permission rather than posting too much.

1 minute ago, Andrew M said:

Trolls from the Shadow Plateau

Damn, forgot entirely about the best non-human race to play... our friends the trolls! Thanks Andrew!
and trollkin too!

20 minutes ago, svensson said:

How do some of you folks handle non-human Player Characters? Several threads have focused on one aspect or another, but I'm interested in a more general treatment.

 

Well, you must have noted by now that I prefer an open table with less tyranny from the game master... but hell, I am just human (see what I did there, did ya see that?). That being said, I limit players to baboon or ducks (good call on the centaur) or similar critter that act like humans 'cept with feather, fur, or 4 legs and a harp. Those intrepid players who must have the truly odd usually will have difficulty enough dealing with the culture around them, and the cultures they should be portraying (but probably are not) but what of poor little ol' moi? I have to run the nightmare of a fish out of water or an Elf in Torkan's Last Fort. "Say aintcha a dwarf, shorty!" If the player has no respect for the amount of trouble they are causing themselves in the name of MGF they can at least think of the poor bastard who has to try to come up with encounters, and reactions in the situations they will cause. That would be "ME"!

A better GM will than I will have the skills to have a solution for all problems they will encounter with such situations: fer example; a dwarf, an elf and a hobbit turn into a bar*... Me, not so much. I would not even know how to enforce the cultural tropes they should be bound by to avoid such a quandary in the first place. 

I am interested as well to see how others will answer... so let me get my popcorn and sit back... that's my two bolgs worth.

*they were lycanthropes! 

Erol, if you are referring to the one above... it is as stated:

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8 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

I have seen this picture and will spend this whole next weekend scrolling through 1000's of pages looking for it!

If @Scotty or another representative of Chaosium were to give me permission, I could paste the two paragraphs of italicized text from this out of print but very much TMed product as well. To save your poor eyeballs the thousands pages of looking... If not, I am sure you will understand.

It is pretty cool though, innit?

32 minutes ago, Erol of Backford said:

Similar to the Temple of the Wooden Sword or the say the Golden Sword (This is the sacred sword of the temple and will in and of itself serve as a holy place for attracting spirits for anyone). Are there examples of mobile Orlanthi holy spots/shrines/temples?

 

Orlanth, check!

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1 hour ago, g33k said:

How many legs has your collective got?

This is truly odd, not being the joker for once... 

1 hour ago, g33k said:

(more seriously -- while off-topic for simple "well-wishing," I was offering "ranked choice" as another positive sign for the advancement of democracy)

Yes, I got that sense. Thanks, anything positive works quite well here.

1 hour ago, g33k said:

But sure... if the thread has run its course, I'll be the first to toss a shovel of dirt onto the coffin.

We shall see. It seems to not die... It has risen a couple of times and remains very (astoundingly) civil! Perhaps we could be a beacon of hope for the internet... just don't invite them in for a peek, eh.

19 hours ago, whitelaughter said:

Call Founder is the nuclear option for the Praxian tribes: as a 6 point one use spell, it is usually better to use it as a deterrent than to cast it.

<snip>

Rather impressed by many posts today so I have used up all my likes for today! I will have to say I liked this with a post! 

15 hours ago, Jose said:

Well, with all that strength and power... Remenber... This is RuneQuest baby! The avatar of Ragnaglar can tell you that after his encounter with Nisk the unlucky 🤣🤣🤣

As above, but you get a healthy belly laugh!

15 hours ago, MOB said:

Do the Founders materialise sky-clad, or do they turn up kitted out with the typical equipment and accoutrements of the tribe?

Shades of Terminator, MOB. Yep loved this one too! "Your clothes, gib dem to me!"

11 hours ago, Andrew M said:

I believe I have the basis for my next convention game. Gathering the equipment for the Bison Khan , as a form of Heroquest for the Bison to ascend to become the new mount of the founder

You sir are sick... love it, love it, love it!

9 hours ago, David Scott said:

Your founders may differ... <snip>

Wow, that is incredibly cool and helpful too!

8 hours ago, David Scott said:

As this is the Tribal khan doing the summoning, I'd allow an auto-success for the command cult spirit roll.

Don't know about that... we had better run this by that Q&A feller... hey, wait a minute!

Sorry all, I will go away now...

3 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

Maybe Orlanth still thinks he is living boy-meets-girl or the “little tailor”, but you’d think some part of him would twig that he is in plot three:

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Agreed. 

You know, I have always felt this to be true, but I wonder if you are the first to assert this truth since RQ came back (Holy rebirth, Batman!, Precisely Robin, to the batcave! Fire up the Batcomputer and order a slipcase set!).

2 hours ago, g33k said:

Which definition of "join" is this?  Traditionally, I think the view is that Orlanth "brought them together" or "formed" the Lightbringers -- he performed an act of "joinery."

Which I believe is illegal in some (unenlightened) states!

2 hours ago, scott-martin said:

Yeah, this is part of why I find this original (RQ2 rulebook) version so compelling. He's only accidentally the big figure at this stage, only getting caught up in the journey of other people who are at least equally important early on. But because he took personal responsibility for fucking up most egregiously, his ordeal is what saves the world . . . and his status goes from lowest to highest.

Indeed!

8 minutes ago, g33k said:

But this may be another branch that goes off-track...

Only if common niceties; like curtesy, decency and sense, are left in one's pockets. Brought out into the fresh air as they should be... well, who knows? Again, you warn against the problems this topic can cause and that the topic will derail, and when I suggest the topic's doors be closed and the flag be taken down, and y'all post a new item... Should I take you serious good sir g33k or are you taking a page from my barbarian's handbook, and pulling our collective legs? 

🙂

54 minutes ago, g33k said:

I'm hoping -- maybe foolishly, but hoping -- that we'll see a bit more "reaching across the aisle;" and that such efforts will be successful & productive & good for the country, a demonstration that while extremism may play to "the base" (of the respective extremes), it isn't good for the party or the country.  Finding common ground does.

Me too, dialog seems to help. Who knows, maybe family holiday meals can become festive again!

An open question, did I hear of a recent bipartisan committee (do not know where or which level of government) working to alleviate gerrymandering in its sphere of influence?

Assuming the folk who host this lovely gaming site put up with our sh!t er, our loverly topic, and this continued interest in wishing America luck, well... continues... let's keep this area civil to a fault. Very serious here good folk. We all know the problems, I do not think they need a forum (but if so, please do make one else where SVP) to discuss them. But, should this joint's doors remain open for biznesss, what wonderful things can we find, and discuss to bring about the discourse that fosters democracy. Our lovely American friends deserve no less.

Personally, I think this area has run its course and should be left in cobwebs for now, but as they say in Missouri (or is that Missourah), SHOW ME!

Gads, have I created a zombie topic that refuses to die?

The first thing you need to do is explain to your players that you are not the opposition. Unless you are, but that is not good for the game in long term (or short term for that matter) just the intermediary in a great (it will be great, right) Gloranthan story. Hopefully you are there to get an interactive tale told to you and to your players. RQ is quite good for that, long or short term. If they get it, maybe they will be kinder and work with you to achieve this. Page 272 in the RQ G core rules book, introduces DI but only has this sentence on raising characteristics:
 

3 hours ago, coffeemancer said:

Bill got it right. I just like drawing runequest stuff. I wish I could draw comics but I can't.

So naturally  upload them to my pinterest but uploading them here gets me that sweet sweet validation!
 

You most definitely have the chops to draw comics. Maybe you lack the skills to write them, but I doubt that (having gamed with you at the height of the pandemic on-line I know you have the imagination and are quite entertaining), but drawing them is well within the realms of possibility. The evidence is right here. You may need to write them in your native language (doubt that, you have a great grasp of English) or perhaps find a writer you can work with if writing is not your thing or forte. Now, do you want to draw comics? You are the only one who can answer that, but hey, until then I feel quite blessed to see your work here.

Thanks!

Hey Jex, welcome... I tried to welcome you earlier but the powers that be lost my post in transferring you here from RuneQuest forum at my request. Oh well. I hope you enjoy your visit and even decide to stay after your writing is done. Speaking of which, I hope you have a great time writing your JC tome. Got to ask, what is your final goal with this?

Yes, you are quite correct... it was the centre of the fabric of reality and central (in oh so many ways) to the beliefs of all the homelands of the Core Rule Book. (possibly not Lunar Tarsh, but it used to be before the coming of the Empire, and if not central to Prax I would assume it was well known as a great piece of it sits on the praxian savannah imprisoning the devil)

I should not speak for coffeemancer, so I will simply give my guess. It started with Runeblogger finding some pics and he was trying to find the artist: who happened to be coffeemancer. I believe this is his digital sketchbook, but his select few who get to see it are all of us! Lucky us, eh?

4 hours ago, jajagappa said:

They work perfectly well together - people have multiple emotions and reactions to such beings.  How you respond in a given instant will depend on which emotion takes over in the moment.

3 hours ago, Stephen L said:

Also, someone (or something) who is scared can make a *very* dangerous foe.  Just see what happens when you corner a rat...

 

3 hours ago, Stephen L said:

Running away because you rolled under your fear passion is just the most obvious response, it's not the only one. I'd believe frenzied attack or stealth...

this is interesting, indeed. Not sure I like one over the other but two valid responses. Seems the answer might require the GM and their table to be deft enough to interpret the rolls on the fly... I mention the table, because if the table is rewarded with good stories they might (I like to think will) see the advantages of making rulings like either of these fine choices. Having the table be willing to aid a story as opposed to just aiding the adventurer alone increases the brains thrown at the problem.

Sorry folk, but seems we have drifted seriously off topic. This has nothing to do with wishing luck, an I wonder if a new topic could be made.

8 hours ago, soltakss said:

• Would you roll Fear Undead first, accepting the result if you succeeded, but trying Hate Undead if you failed?
• Would you roll Fear Undead vs Hate Undead in an opposed roll to see which passion took precedence?
• Would you just ask the Adventurer to pick one and roll it? If so, why would anyone choose Fear Undead?
• Do you have another suggestion?

This sounds like the classic instance of... "He did not know whether to shit or go blind!"I always wondered about that expression but this defines it.

I don't know, but I kind of like symmetry of the inverse of the first... Try hate undead and should that fail be ready to flee upon making your fear undead. But Simon, I have to ask, how did this unfortunate situation happen?

16 minutes ago, soltakss said:

My Hill of Gold articles should be at http://www.soltakss.com/indexheroquesting.html#HoG.

 

I love it, looks just like it has always looked. Well, since the 90s anyway. Very sweetly ol' skool! And still chalk (man?) full of Glorantha Greatness!

On 10/7/2022 at 12:06 AM, Darius West said:

just don't think Middle Earth Conversion therapy will work on Glorantha 😱😝

Bad Darius, bad! Now go to your dungeon young monster and think about what you have done!

On 10/10/2022 at 3:44 PM, Ali the Helering said:

I have toyed with the idea of character creation along the lines of Nephilim, so that elves gain specific skills at different points within the ages, dependent on the culture and society predominating at the time, and any changes in focus for the character.  

If I may Atgxtg, that's rather clever!

3 hours ago, NickMiddleton said:

(an exquisitely presented evolution of the first)

I do own the first and a goodly selection of adventures or splat packs, but wow, if it is that good... I may have to take a look.

On 11/11/2022 at 6:47 AM, whitelaughter said:

Then next time you read it, notice the explicit praise of inter-racial marriages.

 

I feel Ali's pain, and I hope you are correct in your defence... well, you have given me a reason to read this bad boy for the 2nd time this millenium (been a couple of decades) but with an eye to the racism noted bu folk and the  defence you offer. A good reason for a fresh look at what I recall to be a rollicking read. I suppose I will have to put J.R.R. in his time as well and be thankful he was not influence by HPL.

On 11/11/2022 at 6:47 AM, whitelaughter said:

Magic in LotR is actually pretty common.

Now you have me interested enough to do my own research in what you have said about racism, but I will have to disagree here... The Istari (or the wise/wizards) only number 5, Not sure how many others would be crafting enchantments in the third age but my guess is there are not a ton of folk who craft enchantments in those latter days. The  elder and very powerful elves... Who else? How many have survived from previous ages and not been gathered up by the powerful, well, this is unknown. Can not say I am convinced, but... Your Middle Earth May Vary too!

Cheers

6 hours ago, Jex said:

(Also, I belatedly realize I should have posted this in the Glorantha forum, not the RuneQuest forum... I hadn't noticed there was a separate forum for Glorantha.  Oops.)

A call to the moderators... perhaps@David Scottor @Trifletraxor might help to solve this problem... oh welcome to BRP Jex! Good luck in your writing.