Bill the barbarian

7 minutes ago, soltakss said:

You would probably be surprised about how many GMs have absolutely no interest in HeroQuesting in their games.

 

Having played HQ with a great GM, Harald Smith, I can safely say it is not my cup of tea.

42 minutes ago, Badder said:

Well Bill, I'm new to this forum, so I (sadly) assumed that this has been the standard. I have always enjoyed posts from folks who can keep things civil, and polite. It does seem that rules (RAW) are more important to folks than they should be. 

Thanks for this thread!

Don't fret too much... this place has been great, and usually it still is. I do however note that just a few folk are not recognizing their frustration and/or passion when posting their missives and it spills out and gets a momentum all its on well above and beyond the reactions that were hoped for. Seeing as I have felt this to be a great place and still feel it to be great, I figure I had better put in my to bolgs worth.

Hope to see some great posts from you in the future Badder!

12 minutes ago, soltakss said:

Thread tennis has always been an issue.

I generally ignore it, unless it generates good ideas.

Unless, of course, I am playing thread tennis, in which case it is vitally important to get my point of view across, time and time and time again.

Agreed, thanks Simon!

Thanks for the well wishes and nice thoughts but this thread is not about me and my health woes but about BRP and its potential health woes... lets not sidetrack the issue with my health worries. 

5 hours ago, Mugen said:

In his defence, it was difficult to not be frustrated as a French Glorantha fan, as most of the available material was translations of RQ3 publications

 And yes, Mugen, as a RQ 2 player (moved on to RQ 3 in the very late 80s) back in the day, alas, my experience here in North America was no different... 

29 minutes ago, M Helsdon said:

This is news to me.🙂

There, there Mr Heldon... I will still treat you like canon!

Love ya too! I hope that did not sound all about me, I meant it to be about those who are feeling stressed and taking it out on other poor stressed folk. Me, I am just looking for a little peace! 

Well, that is a little scad of hyperbole... 

But my favourite place to hang out... somewhere in this Forum is my praise for BRP Central and its denizens from a happier time... is becoming a bit more inter-webby-like every day. And that really sucks. 

It can not be that hard to be nice to folk or if necessary avoid those one can not be nice to (the are a couple folk here I despise, but you would never know it based on my posts, I simply set phasers on ignore and let them do their thang). Every now and again some pedantic piece of

gets on my case that my opinion can not be taken seriously "for the rules say.... blah, blah, blah..." Of course this can be simply discourse and this forum is here for our opinions and all, so maybe I am letting down the team by not retorting," but mon cher, you are incorrect as the next two pages that you cite say... blah, blah. blah, thus volleying the argument back and forth for the space of a dozen screens to the delight of all! But the trolling that a simple observation can elicit... Zounds and gadzooks! Why bother! Why spend the time and effort to craft a post just to be trolled?

So, am I getting silly and thin skinned? Could be, I am old and doddering and possibly a fool, why not add overly sensitive to the ragout for seasoning? Seriously, there are currently a few posts kicking around where you can see dander rising and veiled insults being uttered and people’s grip on reality (considering the topic here, really?) being questioned. Nothing as violent as a good old Finnish Fisch Schlapping Dance* (google it, or seeing as we are all Gloranthaphiles... maybe Duck, Duck, Go is more apropos) but still, it is there as a festering undercurrent just below the surface of the BRP stream.

Many of the wiser denizens must realize that we are all faced with the possibility of having received a PTSD injury over the last two years. To those who have PTSD from sources other that Covid I am not intending to trivialize your plight, but I must point out that two years of relative isolation, polarization (not so relative) and fear of a horrible death for you or your loved ones will cause trauma and may, as I suggest, PTSD. I have been unable to walk for four and a bit months as a result of this nasty virus and let me tell you, that scared the living daylights outa me and turned my thoughts a little gloomy!

Having my first good day since just before my last birthday in January has me thinking much more positively than I have for quite a while. Ya know,  I have not posted anything lengthy and hard thought here in a long time because many have forgotten the call to be nice. Was it just a couple of years ago when many flocked to the call for gentility and niceness for your fellow posters? Can we consider the possibility that it is once again time to be better in real life as well as here in the virtual?

Can we not all be excellent to each other?

Hell yeah!

*

4 minutes ago, Eff said:

Thanks Bill! I really enjoyed playing her!

Here’s hoping the Seeping Willows Stead lives again! There are trolls to befriend!

9 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

For GMs who have dealt with Yelmalian PCs (or other "weaker" cults), what have you done to make those players feel more relevant?  Lots of stuff at night?  Anything else?

 

Easy! As with Eff, I had the players craft a little of their clan (fundamentals, rich or poor, valley or woods, large or small) and then had them create their stead.
As they were a poorer stead, for a start we had an Ernaldan cow-herd... an Orlanthi Fisherwoman, and a Yinkin Hunter (just fo a start). The party took care of such details and felt an affinity having had a chance to build it as they wished. 

Having a good group helped.

15 hours ago, Eff said:

To offer an immediate example from my own experience, I joined a game where the premise involved playing through classic RQ2 and new Jonstown Compendium modules, and so when I created my first character I decided she was going to be a fisherwoman, and the suggestions were Engizi and Orlanth, and I looked at Engizi's spell list and contemplated whether, in a group with assistant shamans and Ernaldans and Argan Argar cultists, it would be a good idea to play a rivergod cultist and make it rain only in the dull literal sense, or play an Orlanth cultist and at least have an emergency lightning reserve for running through the Rainbow Mounds or defending the Munchrooms. 

 

A truly great character Eff. Great to see her in play!

30 minutes ago, Orlanthatemyhamster said:

and (all) the dead follow the Sun back to the surface world,

I do not see that they (all) followed the sun. In fact you point that out. To the best of my knowledge, it was only Yelm who came back, and only half the time at that. 

ETA
Damn, seems I was incorrect. Allow me to demonstrate with a quote.

Quote

Everything which had been killed in the Gods War had to remain dead one-half of Time, yet also was alive one-half. Thus, the world which made up the gods’ bodies was subject to those changes, and the magical energies of the world also followed the flow and pattern. Thus, in the winter the Earth and Fire deities are weak, but in summer the Fire gods are most powerful.

[GSB page 132]

Now this statement seems odd, as many did not return...contradicts the “Everything” that starts the quote.

3 hours ago, Qizilbashwoman said:

Netflix only lets me watch it in HINDI with subtitles, which is not unexpectedly a surreal experience

That must truly be a pleasure for a linguist!

33 minutes ago, icebrand said:

Spoiler

I don't think i ever seen a scenario that doesnt have combat, and i own almost all of them. The closest thing is the one with the lamia that enslaved the town i can't remember the name.

 

This is darn close to needing a spoiler. That is to say, I think it needs a spoiler though other would not.

1 hour ago, svensson said:

You know, this whole discussion is kind of silly.

 

Thanks you svensson. I agree whole heartedly! This topic Martin created is the best of the lot,but...

On 5/28/2022 at 4:50 PM, JRE said:

I would play a curse could decrease a power rune so the total is no longer 100. An infertility curse, in my opinion would decrease your Life rune to 0, while not affecting the Death rune. It makes a significant curse, specially for Ernaldans, as it should be. My aim is to make magic more commonplace in normal life, and sex is a primary motivation for humans.

 

Danger: PEDANTRY ahead...

Do keep in mind that power runes can not go above 99 or below 1

yep

51 minutes ago, svensson said:

Do fetches ever manifest in the Mundane Plane? .

 

Unless this has really changed, they may manifest in a shadowy form like that of their type (animal fetish making the body look like the animal represented) in the empty shell of a realms-traveling shaman. As to the 2nd question, I believe the fetch becomes, or was, an awakened part of the shaman combining with the native spirit. I will guess at the third being that one is a soul and one is a spirit and I have no idea what the difference would be if this is so.

14 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

I see something more like this for troll art...

A good thought, but I feel this would not be rough enough!

1 hour ago, PhilHibbs said:

43 years old is new?

 

Hey, people are still calling Brian Johnson the new guy in AC DC 42 years later.

3 hours ago, Bill the barbarian said:

(Can not recall if it was here or Discord)

Discord's RQ server...

By ethawyn

7 hours ago, g33k said:

Actually "processing" the the "words" isn't really the main thing for building a good sheet (now that I put it like this, I wonder if an artistic / graphic-design program wouldn't be much better ... ).

Used to use Page Maker 5 (InDesign’s predecessor from Aldus) to do the job back when I started modding CSs in the 80s. Loved the control of pixels! These days I just scab something over what I want changed. 

8 hours ago, g33k said:

It's like, boxes within boxes, highly-graphical,

This, and a great layout I just saw (Can not recall if it was here or Discord) make me think that a spread sheet might be what ya want.

5 hours ago, Greville said:

In the past I've used Pages, back when I had a Mac, but it's pretty basic.

Rudimentary, but it works... for free.

3 hours ago, French Desperate WindChild said:

aka the french version of a sword of humakt, a crossbow of hum.. act, that was not luck, just skill and super transe magic

 

the 3 trollkins that killed Ruric thrice...

1 hour ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:

I realize "there is no physics" in Glorantha, but math and topology is math and topology.  I've seen several adventures where it is physically impossible to turn around a long spear, not to mention a pike.

You just have not played with soltakss afore. I have not neither but have followed his escapades for 4 decades and expect almost anything from him....

8 minutes ago, OrdosMalleus said:

I'm just talking about within the context of this forum and topic.

As am I, believe it or not. The main reason for your dilemma is Covid (one of my issues) and the war (the entire world’s issue). I have found the folk at Chaosium to be wonderful mostly. I am sure they will have your products as soon as it is feasible. Good luck on the wait. Hope it is not too long.

30 minutes ago, OrdosMalleus said:

Yeah. I get that. But 4 months is a long time for possible US sales to be delayed.

At the risk of sounding mean and flippant (I might be flippant but am rarely mean), that really is a 1st world problem you have there. I am very sure Chaosium is not being lazy or is trying to get your goat but let me give you a comparison. I am now at 4 months of incredible pain and the loss of walking. Covid and war sucks and are the gifts that keeps on giving! 

Edan Jones, you rock sir!