Bill the barbarian

All right y’all, you kids better behave now er I might get me canon!

Well I came to RQ in the 80s after reading Gerber’s Howard the Duck so no, while my first character ever was a duck thief he spoke with a bronx accent and smoked cheroots! I was tempted to add the fedora and tie but thought that was too much. So no, a standard every day duck... err durulz!

Wrong forum lad, this belongs in Hibb's Warning! Egregious munckinerry err trollkinnery!

In a decade of using these wonderful combat rules, that’s about as far as I can take the RQ 3 rules straight out of the box. As physics teaches all analogies break down at some point and this seems to be the limit of RQ 3.without HRs That is being said, that is sill pretty crunchy. Perpaps not quite to the Fantasy Trips facing fetish, or C and S attention to detail not having played GURPS or Rolemaster I can not comment but assume it is crunchier in combat order and moment as well .,

Well you know those ducks and how pushy they are...

Used to back when I could run the game.... So true I am not sure it is cheating, Check the random encounters in SC for more Random goodness.

Thanks, I prefer to duck.... I was referring not to resurrect in your contribution to the topic, I meant Resurrecting the whole topic, kit and caboodle all "Warning: Egregious munchkinnery!” in its awful glory, a little ripe and lurching seeing as it is still fresh for the grave, but yes PhilHibb's evil experiment in godlearning the rules is back! IT LIVES!!!!! bwahahhahahahaha!

Oops jonstown compendium is live....see ya..

Indeed the point I was making is that while we have done so, it was done delightfully so and in that unique Glorantan way still on topic, great eh! Know of them Here in canada, one of our great shames is that we used this situation to outlaw the potlatch on the west coast in BC. I am sure there was some truth here that in desperation some 1st nations tribes were going entirely to the spiritual and giving it all ( I mean all) away. Small pox, settlers, plagues too numerous to count, without hope they turned to the spirits... the gods, anything that offered hope even to the death... While the prairie tribes were turning more and more too the SunDance for answers for all the same reasons and wth all the am colonial responses (bans, outlawing the practices, driving them underground)... The true sorrow, we take away now only their comfort but a what is a major part of the culture when they are whole is now gone when they are scattered and hurting. sorry soapbox put away for now... There you go, knew we would go there sooner or later, already answered as best I could so... This sounds evocative, I will look for it Oh, there we go, the meat and taters of this discourse, the pearl as it were... While one can discuss rural and really be discoursing on urban as we have now proved we CANNOT discuss urban and not discuss Issaries. Can not be done! Its like taking the chocolate away from the hazlenut and trying to have nuttella. Biturian is the answer here I believe, I will hide it not only cause it is a spoiler but it really is a pearl. The Travels of Biturian Varosh are not only a travelogue but the have a very pretty story arc. Do not read the below which I include to make my point without having read the whole. It is good, no, it is great! So generosity and avarice, how does one solve this near Njalor riddle of them coexisting. Here is Biturian’s take on the dichotomies that bedevil issaries devotees and here we leave the tribulations of the Orlanthi and their problems with the Generosity/Obligation dichotomy for a bit trigger alert there is talk of Gloranthan slavery Some unneeded spoilers also removed for those who absolutely have to read this her now (noted by <snip> Cheers

Well back in the day one could not power a spell—let’s go with a pricey one that used to be quite common and quite necessary to reattach limbs, heal 6 from more tha one being. RAW pretty much said (from RQ 1-3 in any case) that only one being could provide the MPs to make this spell happen all at once... One could always cast heal 1 by 6 individuals but... Hmmm, Kay, that makes it less than perfect for this demonstration, howsabout Flameblade? a great 4 pointer. Multiple Individuals can not combine magic points, check. Impossible to cast Fameblade (1), so no combinng 4 one point spells. check... that’s what I meant.

Love the fact the we have gone almost totally rural in this conversation in “GMing a Heortling City” thread , even the few posts that apply to urban can also apply to the rural. I love how we can get so far off topic’s thread but defiantly know that we are still on topic because here on the lozenge one often reaches the beginning by marching towards the end, Cheers

Once you have seen and heard the wapiti (N American elk) your life is forever changed, I've had herds of them on my various lawns for a third of my life, and the first time I heard the bugle in the wild... boneshaking soul shaking goodness (kinda like James Brown)!. I have no doubt bout the reality of that so full agreement. Do remember the flip side of generosity... obligation. Loved using the axiom of the chieftain gifting back the lions share of an adventurers loot to the adventurers, looking all magnanimous in that big chair. Back in the day we played with nordic/celtic tropes that all treasure belonged to the clan (well of course we meant the clan chief) and the wise leader never kept it... too much obligation could lead to bad feelings could lead to rivalry could lead... But the wise leader could not give it all away either, he accepted enough to provide for the clan, temple, and nobility (err, himself mostly, and please note I did say the wise one) and gave the rest back. (Taxes in a very brief and boring way to look at it). In fact a great leader would go above and beyond and find the one he thought would be a good man to have and gift him (coincidentally) usually the one he did the most Orlanthi thing. Thus showing the clan and tribe his noble approval and obligating "his man” with small chains (a gold torc, casually flipped to the adventure with a pithy quip) to begin (later comes the lands, titles and songs) but these tales will wait for another day under the webs woven by the spider ... of course now our heroes are men and women of note with means and people more than willing to obligate... Yes, being urban might be restricting us on this one Qizilbashwoman, thanks to the rural/hunting folk for chiming in with the details.. though seems like your family still got the idea .

Oh how it warms the cockles of my hearts to see the resurrect spell being used on this puppy... Cheers, Zit!

Emphasis mine Interesting, this implies that RQ G has changed the old rule that all MPs fueling a spell must come from one source. I know RPs and POW can come from multiple sources, usually in enchantments, I think. What say you Joerg, has this been changed in RQ G or am I misreading your intent?

Thanks for the topic, this has been bothering me for a while..

I have hundreds of cards with all kinds of colour coded tabs and headings from my first attempt at doing that back in the 80s. there have been a couple of restarts and thoughts of new system, moves have upended and beautifully shuffled any flavour of order I once had (holy shades of the problems inherent in organizing a Lhankor Mhy Library—L-Space anyone?)... Now I have been doing this all on my computer for People Places and things since RQ AiG was announced in ’16 ish ETA (frig, I just realized my first attempt on computer data keeping was in the time period of the first RQ AiG (or RQ 4) back in the 90s with PM 5 and the Claris Works Database...)) and I am now up to over 500 pages of an estimated 1000 or so with currently 201, 817 words.... Yeh, it is a good idea to have an easily accessible source of data at a game... Textures and local colour, impressions and scents... shit, the project is now lookingg bigger than the estimated 1,000 page though... sigh

Love that map, well done boys!

Yes, Joerg, good topic, Thanks @Crel

This is going to suck, trying to quote two people over two pages in this software hurts the brain, so I will have to keep it simple... here goes Kay, back to this particular question... granted it is way off the topic as one hunting in a heortling city might well be a whole ‘nother kettle of fish but still this was a point I questioned in that post, Definitely, all personal belongings are private property, this is in the books... citation available upon request Wealth redistribution I am going to address below... 1,000 percent agreement, We are talking abut urban heortling folk, though, Botton line, I will say... to sharing... There are literally pages of text devoted to the concept of generosity, yes it is a tenet of all heortlanders, canon, hell this is gospel. But that does not mean it is universal. Univerally expected, but like common curtesy, decency and sense in our section of the marble...well... Our society is in crisis, and dare I say the Sartar culture will need a little care to bring it back to stability... as well. Heort’s laws might be returning to Sartar but they have been badly bent for over a generation. The laws begin "Among us, we must always hold true...” Well society is currently disrupted now and it has not held universally true for Sartar for 23 years... While many tribes rebelled, secretly usually, many others sold out to the Lunars. Generosity has put on the shelf to be taken out on occasion for visitors and holidays but not held in the heart. “Among us, we must always hold true to the Six Social Virtues: Honor, Provision, Defense, Obedience, Justice, and Hospitality.” — Heort's Laws. Cheers

For someone who has no interest in going to FB would someone tell us what happened here.

Never seen any reference for hunting rights restrictions in Orlanthi lands, sounds more like norman england, Have you a citation? you really have me confused with this one, do you mind citing it.

For the most part I think that is mostly correct add in cults, clans and tribes and seed stock and I think want little remains might make it way to discretionary funds.. I believe the discretionary funds a stead gains every year is based off excess animals and cash crops, as well as milk and crafts. The clan tribe and cult each want their (largish) share of the cattle as taxes and tithes, a certain amount of seedstock would have to held in common or have the clan's real world status and power suffer.as its tribal herds dwindle. In a great year for the herds (good rolls on the Between Adventure tables and a tidy profit) would allow a stead to sell one cow and net it’s 20 lunars for the adventurers small purse. I believe this would be the game abstraction put into words. The smaller animals are ate or sold for pin money, And what does not make to to table as regular meals might make it to clan or tribal religious festivals as sacrifices (of course a large amount of these sacrifices are ate at the festivals, bonus or used as displays of wealth and power amongst the status conscious Orlanthi in similar style but usually smaller scale, usually, to the west coast First Nations in Canada in their great feasts called potlatches) The trade items are not sold usually but bartered for sewing kits and real thread with bronze needles, well crafted kitchen knives beyond the utility ones that the farm can make and similarly specialty tools. fired brick?. trading fowls or a basket of rutabagas or wool or.., in bad herd years one might t actually have to sell for hard currency to pay taxes in lieu of non-existent cattle or insufficient cattle

A little later... ...finished my coffee with a read, and turned to SC and SKoH to check what little info I have to hand about Tribal Manors (SKoH) and Tribal Houses (SC) Good stuff... I can’t in good conscience post without the BIG CAVEAT that the canon cult does not smile upon the following info... It will probably be retconned (is that the phrase all the kids are using now <grin> so use at own risk Tribal Manors in Boldhome Right Arm [Sartar Kingdom of Heroes Page 244] * (Ducks got a Duckberg, Ducks got a Duckberg....Pttttbtttt!— Whadda ya mean, grow up, huh?) and Tribal House in Jonstown [Sartar Companion Page 9] [Sartar Companion Page 21] I did note that Colymar and the Lismelder as well as the Druluz while not being in a confederation have Tribal Manors in Boldhome,

As I said earlier in the thread about tribal manors in confederated cities, I assume the non-confederated cites do not have this style of tribal manor... Runegate for instance?, I am not sure the jajagappa is incorrect so much as he misspoke, He says clans but in the above quote he mentions the Cinsina Tribe not the Red Cow Clan. Nice one about the Wyter those of us new to Wyters with RQ G need that insight. Thank you for the remainder that was a cool read.I have the afternoon sun shining down on me and I really did find that to be just the thang with my afternoon coffee. Cheers

So let me get this straight, you say the cannon’s canon, right?