Bill the barbarian

Totally okay, many hated the Last Unicorn and some thought it one of the greatest fantasies written; Your Real World Will Vary

Folk of the Air. Peter S Beagle Set in 20th century San Francisco. Its heros are members of something quite similar to the SCA, the characters could easily be found here posting on BRP central. Great read! His other book is one you might have heard of; The Last Unicorn!

Thank you for the compliment, klescer. Can't say every post I have had made are as good but the good ones have something in common. I try to read a post that I wish to reply to twice to make sure I got it, as well as the other posts around it to have a context Then I will craft a reply and then read the original and the reply before posting. I have had to throw away a more than a couple of posts realizing I was off topic or someone else had nailed it or... With luck my post was worth someone's while. At the very least its good typing practice. Damn now I have to answer in a negative after you heaped all the nice praise on me. Hmm klecser, what am I not understanding here? I would incorporate magic right away into a RQ RiG game (after all Glorantha is magic) but I would recommend that a new GM simplify it. Use as much of the rules as one can parse, and that the story you are telling for that session requires. At the very least I would say you would have to give every player some way of healing themselves, a healing potion if not healing spells. As stands, RQ magic in its current three schools (more schools to come later) is complicated compared to most (if not all) BRP games and previous incarnations of RQ. So, yeah if a new GM wishes to simplify, I see no reason not to. If a GM wished to hand wave magic (until he or she grasps it better) and just "feature" spirit and rune magic (perhaps in the person of a NPC) and remove it from the nitty gritty of every day rules, this is drastic but it would not break BRP and should not break RQ RiG. That said, learning and mastering the magic system will pay dividends in gaming Glorantha imo. Alas, magic (at least as a backdrop) is needed for Glorantha. It must be featured as g33k says, at the very least. The complexity is not needed. Save that for your tax forms or grading your students papers and/or behaviour. Hell, you paid a lot of money for the game. Enjoy it. Cheers

The very first time I heard it pronounced Payvus was in a Dirk the Dice podcast. I was thinking it wrong and enchanted all at the same time. Alas, I have never travelled in a land where dialects and accents change in a days walk, but I can well imagine and think, wow that is cool. I need that for my game. Thus, I will have to agree with Harry the Dirty Dog here. Chacun à son goût. Cheers

Alas, David, it seems that you are mostly answering different messages then the one i had posted. You are answering a question concerning gaming stores allowing gaming and I am asking if Chaosium is as Psullie suggested providing material to run demos and also my question as to advertising material to push the demo to be run which you did answer. Cheers! I have written and run a tournament years ago and have run a half dozen demos over the years including The Broken Tower so I am not asking of advice on how to run a demo. Not saying I won't ask in the future but not this time Seems this is quite common David, misreadings of posts on BRP central. I might have to rethink how clear my notions are to others (nah its them, not me) cheers

Thanx soltakss I was hoping/figuring it would prove to be easy to split from canon. My game starts in Torkani lands the year of the Rebellion of the Righteous Wind. I have always used 1611 as my starting point, but I have never been this far off canon before, 14 years or so, almost a generation. Still, I must have my Gringle arc as well as the Rainbow Mounds near the beginning of all my campaigns and that sets the time as before Gringle becomes a member of the Sartar ring. Now with many ways to continue AL I think I will either begin Part 2 of the Apple Lane arc in a quiet year after 1613 when Gringle returns. 1614? Or maybe use the Sartar Companion (?) HQ Apple Lane set in 17 or 18? I have always figured I would end up with some set days that not be changed a la Dr. Who (who?), of course that never stopped the good doctor before so we will see how it all unfolds.. What do you think Marty Jopson, have we drifted to far off topic (probably) but are we still interesting, making it a little more forgivable?

Part of the reason for the impossibility of organizing LM temple libraries and for the obsession that drives the reorganizations led by new Chief librarians that start on their inaugural day and tend to last their entire career. Cheers

Many thanx Smokebadgert these will look nice the next time I run the scenarios. I am sure the players will appreciate! Cheers

I would think so Politeness and all.

Psullie was suggesting in a yhread about Cons in the RQ Forum that: Now, does Psullie know what he is talking about here Even without a scenario to run from you guys I have been thinking of approaching a couple of FLGSs here in Edmonton and offering to run RQ RiG (modded RQ 2 and 3 games, Broken Tower, or Stolen Eye (I would check for the correct name but leaving a page in this software sucks) games but if I am doing so as a CoC member and if you might have an ad I could use... A few have suggested putting up posters with my contact info, to organize demo games. Cheers

Thanks all, don't mind taking part in this thread but I could see people getting upset based on where it started. Cheers

canon-focus sounds like a sub cult of the bane of my first kick at gaming—the Rules Lawyer. They wrecked many a d&d game looking up obscure rules while holding up the games.

Sweet, more proof that if any was needed; that while min/maxing stats can be fun, a character with depth in personalty and beliefs and min/maxed* for MGF instead can be just as cool. I can think of no reason not to do this and blow a stereotype of two out of the water, or just have fun should your sights be set a little lower, Thanx Wrestlepig. * or not; perhaps created according to a plan, or created to explore more nuances of Glorantha, or...

Ooh, the Mostal Canon Cult!

I recall thinking that RQ 6 was incredibly modular and that it had been designed to shed or accept whole areas of rules. Whitaker and Nash even suggest doing this. I do not think that RQ RiG is as modular but thankfully it is BRP so it is inherently modular, though with a lot of modularity designed out. If Mythras has maintained the RQ 6 modularity you might need to use it as the base and graft on passions, runes, cults etc to taste from RQ RiG. I am going to guess going this route is should be slick. Keep us up to date please. To avoid bending noses out of joints I should ask... is this the right forum for this topic or like dracopticon has suggested, are we swearing in church and this thread should move to Mythras?

Delecti the Necromancer: Humakti, Humakti don't you treat me so mean You're the meanest Death Drake I've ever seen I guess if you say so I'll have to pack my dead and go Humakti Death Drake: Hit the R:OAD <quack> and doncha come back Duck choir: no more, no more, no more, no more... Humakti Death Drake: Hit the R:OAD <quack> etc.

Walktapus stew, the meal that keeps on giving.

I wonder to what effect, a keepsake perhaps but the package is so tight on every angle at the moment the mm. or so thickness gain that would come with lamination may be more that it can take, On the other hand framed and on the wall...

A few of us our mourning the eventual loss of the pretty GM screen dust covers that we have fallen in love with just to find that the love, alas, must be fleeting.

The Italicized bit, missed it entirely by going straight to bronze and metals. thanks metcalph.

SO they only thing we have yet to find a reference for is the premise that the sheer profundity of bronze is due to the warlike nature and/or number of storm gods who fell.

Crel it was canon and I am thinking from RQ 2 and 3 days , but I'll be damned if I can recall where it can be found. I am thinking that it must have been mentioned in the RQ 3 elder secrets box set and yes page 33 of the secrets book but alas it just agrees that bronze is exteremely common, and that all metals are bones of the gods who died in the conflagrations. Hmm (interesting side note, some bronze is still found in bone shape dug out from the earth). But yes I recall as you do a chaosium product that blamed the warlike nature of Orlanth's peoples (gods?) and the number who died as to why bronze is so common.

That seems to be the ticket, Shiningbrown and as you noted always remember the players! As to frustrated, barbarian exploded—all better now!

I seem to recall one of the Forum's Chaosium reps way back last summer saying Rune Spells in enchantments are cast with the magic rune? (unless limited against this I guess) which I believe means your choice of which of your own runes you wish to power your roll to cast Rune spells in matrices. The quote alas, would be buried way to deep to try to find now, sorry.

Thanks they look good.