AlHazred

Has anyone made a list of all the various cults and subcults published for Hero Wars/HeroQuest/QuestWorlds, and where they were published?

Going back to the original source material: I think hazia also showed up in Conan (maybe the movie? Not sure), so when it showed up in RQ it was easy to adjudicate its effects!

Is... is this the Nysalorian riddle for Inkscape skill?

Halcyon "The Flint" Var Johnson?

Man, I remember this! I had a bunch of stuff for my campaign set up in it. I can't wait to see where this goes!

I always figured "Uz-Cleaver" was a call-out to the sword Orcrist, "also called the Goblin-Cleaver," from The Hobbit.

"So, which Skill did you learn the Nysaloran riddle for?" "Uh... Riddling." "... Huh, that's a circular... uh, yeah..."

If a Lunar does it, it's corruption; if a Sartarite does it, it's just cleverness or good business sense! I thought that was understood?

Not a Sartarite, but if King Glyptus the Good of Elkoi is any indication, having a Lunar wife is not immediately fatal, or even fatal in the short term. It does appear to be a sign of corruption in court, though...

Also... So, this was all caused by Aphrodite? Hmm... That tracks...

I mean, Theia is the Titan mother of Selene, the Titan of the Moon. What else should they have called it?

I direct you to the well-armored ladies on the subreddit ArmoredWomen. Lots of good armored examples there, allthough, admittedly, I go more for the landsknechter...

Hard to go wrong with the original Howard Brown illustrations of "At the Mountains of Madness" from Astounding Stories.

They actually do look similar in some ways: a bastion in the southern part of the city, a few blocks split by major thoroughfares, etc. Cool!

I was always under the impression that Midkemia's The City of Carse supplement could be dropped in for Karse in Glorantha, but now I find myself questioning that impression. Was that incorrect? (And yes, I'm aware that the current material supersedes whatever might have been produced by a third-party previously, whether or not my memory is faulty.)

The Backerkit site has no pre-order info. You might try reaching out to James Lowder directly.

Personally, I see nothing at all wrong with it. And having a name that's gone out of fashion just means people will less frequently confuse you with other people who have the same name.

I don't see how this is an unfortunate name. St. Walburga (also rendered Walpurgis, Valpurga, Valborg, Valderburg, or Guibor) was a skilled writer and calligrapher; she is often called the first female author of both England and Germany. It's a good legacy! Not much to do with fighting, but I love the idea that she transcribed fechtbücher and got attached to them that way.

Thank you very much! I've been trying to work up a list of things I'm going to have to read, and it's approaching 100 entries; by the time I get to the end, you might have published them all already!

In the "Vale Darren Watts" blog post, @MOB mentioned he'd done editing on 7th sea books and the Arthurian Companion, but I hadn't found anything either.

I'm rereading all of Darren's stuff that I own for a "Wherein I Read" thread on RPG.net, and I realized I might own some of his Chaosium products. Is there a list online of work he edited for Chaosium? I know he worked on the most recent Arthurian Companion (a favorite of mine from the first edition), but what did he work on in the 7th sea line?

That's a good fit. There are a number of intriguingly-named Chaos spots in the Big Rubble that never got detailed; the Hellpits could easily be dropped in for any of them.

Thank you! That's a fantastic find! Although, now I have to track down issues of a thirty-year-old fanzine... *sigh* Hey, @Rick Meints, how about a Gloranthan Classics V: 'Zine Compendium? RQ and Glorantha have had more fanzine support, I'd think, than any game other than D&D... Interesting, especially if I use the more medieval Esvulari stuff from HW/HQ. Interesting. I'd like to use the JG stuff in Sartar, but Lei Tabor is weird and different enough that placing it in Ralios would work; different cultures and all... I mean, that's fair... *starts singing "A Cold Wind Over Sartar"*

In Champions, usually we waited until the characters or campaign plot had advanced enough, and then upgraded the whole thing to a higher power level, allowing players to go higher in the point totals. It worked well; one time I did it, there was a secret alien invasion, so a lot of characters were more potent than the PCs expected, and it allowed me to gradually amp things up without being instantly overwhelming.

Actually, I decided to take a look at Duck Tower (I posted without actually checking my copies of the books) and I was incorrect with that one. The opening of the module notes that a group of Humakti ducks were expelled from their village and journeyed "several months" to the location of the Legendary Duck Tower. After settling there, the Tower was overcome by Zorak Zorani trolls who looted the place, killed everyone, and then left. The tower fell into ruin and has remained so for "104 years." That points to the possibility that the Legendary Duck Tower is in a region nearer to troll lands than the Upland Marsh. You could place it in the Stinking Forest, or put it in the western reaches of Dagori Inkarth. Putting the Hellpits in the Upland Marsh isn't a bad idea. The pits are said to be the lair of a vampire, so there's a possible link to Delecti the Necromancer. Putting them in Snakepipe Hollow allows the vampire easy access to both the Lunar Tarshite and Sartarite sides of the border. Alternatively, the Hellpits also contain the last resting place of an ancient hero, so either the Hollow or the Marsh work, so long as we're talking a hero from the really ancient past, probably from EWF times or so.