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Hear hear!

What a great thread! Gorgeous pics!

How large percentage of the Templars and militiamen would be initiates?

Good point.

How about Shadowgoose?

Black Fang is a cult that resembles a bit the historical Assassins. They're found in the Great Rubble in Prax. Where's your campaign taking place? And what kind of a character is it?

There's of course the Rathori option.

Thanks!

My deepest condolences to his family, and thanks Greg for all the fun times I've had with my friends playing RuneQuest and exploring Glorantha.

Sounds logical. Would anyone have more pics of mostali crossbows? The only ones I found were basically just chu-ko-nus. Now, of course one could make up an in-world explanation for it, and say that they just resemble externally chu-ko-nus and have springs and stuff inside, and that the humans just copied the look.

Hah, I was sure someone would say that, but we had it some years before D&D had

The curve helps with slicing, and straight blades are better at piercing, and both have been used by cavalry for thousands of years. The question which is better, has always been contested. In RAW RQG there's no difference except with spears, but my group uses a house rule that two-handed weapons get 1.5 times the normal damage bonus, eg. +d4 rises to +d6 and +d6 rises to +d10.

Yes. I think that the Chinese might have had better bronze than Europeans, and therefore were able to make longer blades. Or maybe they preferred longer blades, unlike other Bronze age people.

Phalangites have pikes and smaller shields.

In my Glorantha I don't call or describe them as 'bastard swords', but as 'long cavalry swords'. Rules-wise they work as the old bastard swords.

Please increase the maximum number of possible 'likes' per day. Some days the good posts pile up high

Thanks! I had forgotten about that amazon crossbow pic, and hadn't looked close enough at the Fonritan pic. Now that amazon crossbow looks very much like a chu-ko-nu, so I take it that they exist, even if they haven't been described in the rules (yet). The Mostali repeating crossbow seems to be a different weapon. Chu-ko-nu

Speaking of Chinese and Medieval weapons, what do the Gloranthan crossbows look like? Are they like the Medieval European crossbows that had short and stiff bows with short powerstrokes, or like the Bronze Age Chinese crossbows that had longer bows and powerstrokes? Or are they perhaps like Greek bellybows? Medieval European crossbow Bronze Age Chinese crossbow Greek bellybow Some of the heavier Chinese crossbows used winches, but many were loaded without tools, by sitting down and using legs: Some were even loaded by multiple people:

The late bronze age Chinese had long bronze swords. If there are bronze greatswords and broadswords in Glorantha, why not have a sword whose size is between those swords?

That's some powerful taters. I wonder if eating them raises your moon rune? Maybe that's why they give them out for free!?!

Yeah, looks like that is settled then officially. YGMV, and I'll ask my group about their opinions on what we'll settle wrt. the initiation numbers. Now that Rune Magic is renewable for the initiates too, perhaps it's better to lower the number of the initiates so that there won't be stickpickers with Thunder spells. I had planned on restricting some of the more powerful Rune magic spells to God talkers or higher ranking members, but this will work too. And now that laymembers are counted as worshippers in the temple minimum sizes, the lower number of initiates won't matter as much.

What about potatoes? Weren't they a Blue moon affiliated tuber?

A long example of a combat where the different rules are used would be great.

Agreed.

Hah, well that is a big change. Ok, I looked at the temple sizes, and now the minimum size includes the lay members too. I wonder where the lay members go after death? I think I'll make a thread about lay members.