Bill the barbarian

Magic of that kind must really come from you and the players as much as from the authors of your fantasy material. Touch up the boring prose you are given and before you know it the players will be joining you. Granted it should be there to begin with but, that’s what you have these fora for and the excellent denizens herein!

A walk through Pavis does offer a lot of pubs, and inns that are not totally bog-standard, well it was the 80s so they could use a bit of work, but I can still smell the difference twixt Riverfish Inn and the Silk ’n Plume in my imagination. I can still hear the crash and crunch of bones of a body being slammed into the tables in either Rowdy Djo Lo's or Loud Lilina’s. Blissfully the smells remains forgotten. As a young man in the 70s I hitchhiked across Canada a few times. I will never forget the welcome I had after walking down a cheery flower shrouded lane next to the Island Hiway on Vancouver Island to arrive at an equally picturesque farm house, ivys, flowers and trees everywhere. The barn had looked like something out of Tolkien as seen from the overly modern road I stood on, there was a campgrounds down the road that I could stay at so....I went down the lane A couple of horses frolicking in front and a cat that demanded my attention before I was permitted to knock on the door greeted me. The incredible adorable and sweet young couple (amazing what a few decades will do to memories, I thought they were old at the time) who answered the door answered all my questions and offered me a tour. Well soon I was sitting down to an impromptu feast and pie (wow it was great). We talked about travel , the road, politics and then I said time to go to the campgrounds when they asked if I minded horses cause I could bed down with the horses in that great barn I had spied from the road and so I did. They lit a later for me and showed me how to turn it off I took my battered book out of my pack and read a chapter about Jack (Jack of Shadow) before turning off the lantern and had a great sleep, dreaming of hobbits doubtless. I do indeed recommend this routine to other travellers Farners get lonely. That also became my winters rest for a few years every winter... Vancouver Island not the farm! Thanks for the city view, I imagine proper hospitality can be found in such cities in ones tribal houses.

A very festive yule to all!

Analogies and analogs, great teaching tools, great way of simplifying difficult concepts. or even codifying worlds to fit into a games system—poor substitutes for the real thing. My fave physic teacher used to say all analogies will break down, the better ones take longer.

Oh my, where is my hospitality? A very festive yule to all!

The first game I ever ran! Memories, misty water coloured memories of the way we were!

In my games:) Main reason for putting this together. I see potential here to make the scenarios POP! And avoid bog-standard! Oh and to do that I suggest a re-reading of lordabdul’s wonderful response it is quite good for leaving the mundane behind in a real world (if I can say that about Sartar) way.

I left that a little vague—and that is one possibility—as we have sources for this. What I was truly curious about is where adventure lies in the more urban centres (of course adventure and hospitality or lack thereof are hand in glove, but...). As I said, a vey good possibility,. thanks for pointing out why! I like this a lot, not breaking of canon (some good bending at best)! Nice expanding to cover earlier point, one reason to be able to be hospitable, security that does not require additional manpower! So I read that you are not differentiating the towns and hill forts from the more urban areas that surround them. In fact the first line of defence of a hill fort, town or even a Clan or Tribal Seat would be the lowly fyrdperson doing his or her seasonal duty on patrol. Interesting and well worth a mention. Hell, if this is not where your mind is drifing take a bow anyway, It allowed my mind to wander this path. Now, I would imagine this not to be the case of a city...confederacy capitol or not. Yep. good colour! Again true, Interesting the answer is 100% off-topic of the the question, but still is a great read and a much needed expansion of the topic. Thanks Now this is more on point. looking at the surrounding territory rather than the individual stead and once again gives colour, and flavour and good game points. Cool. Yeah, cheers lordabdul, thanks for the comments.

Well it is only a 100...

Curse you. first you break me then you mock me!

Damn you DreadDomain, you ARE indeed extremely evil. So let me take a look says I, what harm could it cause...well I do need a new CoP mine is looking a little falling apart....and hey where is the hard copy of the companion... well I still have the different worlds which has... oh, heck it’s only... ARGGGGHHHHGGGHHH! MAY ALL THE GODS AND GODDESSES CURSE YOU YOU EVIL MAN! Well it’s only 100 bucks... breathe, all will be well...ohm... no Bill don’t go back in.. no man!

Bingo, thank you ever so much for saying that!

Thanks for the empathy, yes this was quote confusing! Well now I have to take this back to the table with David Scott’s explanation and say... well here it is... shall we carry on and use it RAW... Thanks for the time and clarity @David Scott! And all who are here debating and putting in time to get this together/sorted.. When the stars are correctly aligned, this is the thing BRP does well. David’s help is truly appreciated and noted as well.

If for no other reason. that is an excellent one. Well, rules as written in previous only attacking boosting was allowed. But currently, added book keeping, one, and boosting a spell to pierce defences does not bring spell down just pierces it. With defence it just prevents the incoming spell from working., period. Def apples and oranges if you see what I mean. Not comparable.

One of the very few home rules I will be introducing, I play RAW for the most part...Presenting to the table to vote on this week.

I truly detest this ruling, if I cast a boosted enough disrupt it does not bring down the spell of protection it penetrates it . Boosting a defensive speed is not comparable... but this is another thread

Yes as were the arguments in letter columns (be ready, I predict this could get heated)... anyway everything Kloster says is cool as far as I can see. on doing this incompatibility trick, I predict heated debate. you are casting it on a unwilling (well the DID NOT say yes...) victims so POW vs POW to start and can see 0 probs with it Agreed

Me too. MRQ? That is does, this is from S KoH... which lacks the hospitably question vis à vis inns but has something that made me wonder... this is so, I am thinking there is a wealth of roleplaying potential here.

All the above answers are correct but... Not, yet but there is a long rumoured HeroQuest rules coming to RuneQuest. This year? Until then Simon Phipps has a Jonstown Compendium product looking at the secrets of HeroQuesting available here Do your homework, and find out as much about your enemy as you can before encountering them. Find out what they might want more than your death. Negotiate, plan and attack from advantage, runaway, find allies...many possibilities exist for lengthening a life span. Of course a good diet, great spouse, university educat.... right, wind it up... ok... so don’t adventure, key to a long and quiet life.

You’re going to need a bigger boat!

So, we know that crossing a Tula’s border will have the interlopers confronted by fyrd members patrolling sooner or later and if all is well the sojourners will be taken back to someone in authority and the hospitality “challenge” begins. All things being equal, a good result will get some form of “hospitality” even if only the right to continue travelling. What happens at gates to a hill fort, be it small or large. When one comes to a city how do the guards greet you? When one comes to the “so-called” rural inns, okay bronze age B&B scams.. what is the policy. How do steads differ greatly from Clan Centres of the chieftains? Urban areas would have to have different customs from the wilds, no matter the size of the urban area, roads have different rules than forests. Bottom line, what are the codes and laws concerning strangers and travellers in urban Sartar. For bonus points, how would this differ under the lunars and after Dragonrise’s liberations? Cheers

I specifically asked that question in Q and A one (Now officically closed and moved to Well of Daliath), and Scotty answered saying it was up to the GM whether this was possible, and he cited MGF and a guide for making that decision.. As I (or Scotty said I would have agreed, but...

Thank you good folk and the same to you and your loved ones! What was It Tim said... oh yes. God Bless us, every one!

And that is why I like this guy!

Yes and no, the way RQ G treats the issue is that everyone is an initiate to a cult. very likely lay worshippers of cults that are part of the cultural fabric. Now, not all initiates are created equal. That is, the NPC initiates are kind of like one rune spell laypeople in RQ 3... And as you know, in my games they are. Well lay worshipers of Issaries any time they go to market and lay worshippers when they plant crops and...