Bill the barbarian

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Good call, prep is a large fraction of a job! The rest of your message answers any questions I might have there Well I hoped I was able to help then No it does not, well maybe.... But I understand. Thanks for the explanation, and with all that said I hope my answers will assist. Now you see why it took me about a month to answer, Touchy subject, no?

If playing to advantage, rather than disadvantage one might consider what advantage a non human race has over a human character. The biggest advantage , I would think, would be to plot as a device, that is a mirror to reveal humanity to itself

Holst''s the planets...

Interesting you said this, I have found rock and folk rock of the seventies when not using world music to come closest to having the right feel. Needless to say most rock music is in the pentatonic scales.That is 1, 4, 5 notes or Tonic, Dominant, followed by Sub Dominant with a resolution of returning to Tonic. Joerg, bear in mind I am self trained in music and this might be lacking in jargon (or even logic but this is how see pentatonics). In conclusion I like playing Sabbath, Barde, Harmonium (a pair of great Quebecois bands), Michael Oldfield and Tangerine Dream. ELP (the first album.. In the Beginning and Knives Edge work very well). Mizourski's pictures at an Exhibition, the original or ELP's fine cover. A lot of the Beatles, Pink Floyd are my gods for temple music. Any of the first five albums should have something for any temple. Now going to classical I like Rimsky-Korsakov, especially Scheherazade. Igor Stravinsky's Fire Bird Suite, and a of of Tchaikovsky. I could go on for ever but I will stop there. cheers

Without checking I would call that suspect for the very same reason I would have to check/ Is this rules bleed from former games (BRP or otherwise) remembered or is it current RAW? I catch myself on this on a regular basis. And I know that rule has existed before RQ G.

Trolls are easy, just look on the 'net!

I would worry about personality long before, all the way during and long after the character creation. That would be to make him or her shine! To just be a good character... that's a different matter. I have been trying to figure out how to say this since your character creation videos. I have a niggling bother and I do not want to dampen enthusiasm but I find a little bit to much worry about min/maxing in your thinking. If you use common sense, It is very hard to nerf a character in RQ G. Not very hard, just hard. Make it a difficult ride, yes, simply choose a character with disadvantages. A duck perhaps. Howard the Duck was a mistake walking, a wise-quacking Neanderthal cigar sucking, fedora wearing throwback to the forties in the groovy let to all hang out seventies. A short but kinda cute duck having sex with a bombshell, in comics. When he insults everyone, is nasty when everything is against him (in his mind that is always), how does he come through it all smelling good, A great personality to overcome all his many disadvantages. Mello Yello, MOB's own character who was a baboon who so desperately wanted to join Yelmalio he painted himself yellow and would hang out with the files and parody them when they would train. Nerfed, could be, great. Yes! To make an console gaming analogy If you choose a humakti, yelmalio, chaos assassin, or elder race you have decided to choose the Difficult Setting in your players options for DOOM 3, good luck. The defaults are of course easier. Pregens going through the adventures book easiest of all. But that is not what you are looking for. Had I warned you away from the easy path earlier when you were worrying about character generation it would be easier to say that the stats have relevancy, yes, eventually you will want 18s and 90%s but having difficulties to overcome should not dissuade you from doing it a certain way. From doing it your way. If logic tells you that it will be more difficult one way the mechanics will usually bear this out. Not alway, sometimes the rules suck and let you down. Kinda like life. It sucks but lacks a referee to kiss it and make it all better <grin>. Sometimes it will take the campaign to finish before you have a better handle on the rules . This is okay. Not every character must be The best you can be in the army.... oops wrong public service announcement. No, but what is common to humans? I think 2 point or three would usually be common to humans as well As a scout skirmisher or guide , especially in bogs, yes... Frontline otherwise, only if stats say so. or the ducks personality (as Clinton would say, define, wise)... In answer to your question from a min/max angle... look for professions where a small size is an advantage or not a disadvantage. Thief comes to mind of course, scribe, sorcerer, detective sort, assassin. ETA interestingly this works by duck's personality stereotype as well as size. Cheers

Much the same as I would not impose honour on a player lest he choose it himself.

You were actually participating back then, I was happily just a spectator, It was easier. At a bit of a distance.

I have worked with these gents before, They were billed as The Tuvan Throat Singers of Mongolia a few times (I was stage tech once in a church, magnificent!) and they are friggin' great! Worth noting that they have a tune that represents the sounds of the mongols riding down upon you and it feels... Real! Truly terrifying and I think this is it, buffering is taking forever so... I will post now... and perhaps edit later ETA no, not this one but at 1:51 turn it up and imagine for the next couple of seconds having the horde riding down upon you.

Your BRP central does seem to vary...

Many things went through my mind as I entered BRP Central this fine Sunday morning. Why, said I, I think I shall have a larf at Egregious Munchkinerry, or see the flame wars in the Geases section, nah, I know, I will go over to Dragon Pass Pastimes and see if that hairy barbarian has finally got off his fat hairy arse and finally posted something good! Ah, here's a new topic... But had you asked, "Hey Mr. Barbarian, what is the chance you will read the sentence..." Can unicorn riders counter-missile harpy dung with unicorn dung arrows? (Or perhaps sling'shots'? Why I might have said, "Uh, uh, not much of a chance, Mr. Question-Asker, Oh, and by-the-by, why do you ask?" Cheers

Anyone recall the magazine module of a satyr <possible spoiler> Cheers

Gordon Gekko lives. But, on that note, off to DriveThruRPG. Cheers

You just know the Ferengi are waiting in the wings, Latinum in hand, waiting for the fire sale to begin.

Well in lieu of canonical, we always have jajagappa! Cheers, ya crazy bastich, as the main man might say!!

Said that a few posts ago... not word for word, but... Pedantically yours Bill Cheers

I suppose if I were a Stormbull waking to such madness I might need the HPs and Spirit Combat stats of the weaselly little gits (wake me up after a night in Geo's, will ya?) (see pic at left) <grin>

Soapbox time (flee, disengage, run away!) There needs to be a replacement to the old Thunder Rebels for HW, Though non-canonical it was/is one of the few tomes available that tell the tale of wonder that should be given to new, and old, players alike. I have always thought it a bad idea to argue with an individual with their own canon:). in a different thread I brought up the idea of wonder as a narrators tool as opposed to mechanics. Sometimes you just need to tell a story and not need stats for the story,. In that now non-canonical tome of years past the idea that the old women upon awaking a stead would start by praying to the goddesses take down bags filled with little happy carefree winds.They would sing and dance about the steads releasing the pet winds (okay I am making up the singing and dancing but if you don't like it say hello to my little friend (pats canon)) and the freed winds and breezes and dust devils would also dance and cavort about the stead chasing off bad airs and miasmas. Sending smoke up and out of the hearth and bringing freshness to the waking stead I do not need to know the CHA or POW or HPs of the spirits that wake the stead with joy (how much joy, what is the measure... huh?). Nope, not in my Glorantha. Whatever you bring to the table do not forget the wonder. Cheers

Ya know Shiningbrow, you can not look at life as who has the bigger (fill in the blank). Sometimes it is about the wonder and has nothing to do with the size or even usefulness. not the beginning of a flame war, please.

Yes, the shaman begins to not only be very playable in RQ G (skills, spells and abilities) but show some real depth, a raison d'être. That is vey cool @David Scott and Gallowglass. Thanks for bringing that forward. Cheers

Alas, Creativehum, I think you are. you may be missing the word may not will. My emphasis... Cheers

an Orlanthi All, could we agree to that?

Oui, s'il vous plait!