AlHazred

I don't think the party she's adventuring with is her team. In fact, I don't know that she plays, but she sponsors the Barrelheads. Don't talk to her when they're having an off season...

I will! Is there a 1927 Stockholm guide? I, for one, love the little gazetteers people put in their modules for different locations; I love to make the historical world come alive!

What do you think the Vampire of Tork Hills is?

I see this is 1920s. What is the location where the scenario takes place?

Glorantha being what it is, I suppose at some point Gonn Orta ate a bunch of walktapi, and now he never needs to eat again!

Clearly, they've misunderstood the rules for the Tournament of Luck and Death, and just put to death anyone who reaches the age of 30 in a spectacular Vegas-style show!

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I suddenly had a GM epiphany. When I ran Glorantha, I didn't use Gold-Gotti, both because he was kind of weirdly-placed in the scenario he showed up in, and also I wasn't sure how to roleplay him. This thread has given me a few ideas, but it suddenly today hit me -- he should be roleplayed like Ea-nasir, infamous copper merchant of Ur whose business practices led to a staggering number of complaint letters to him. We know about them, because he kept them all in a room of his house, like a museum of people he ticked off! The next time I run Glorantha, I'm putting in Gold-Gotti and channeling Ea-nasir!

Pretty sure one of the earliest mentions of soap is in a letter to one Ea-nasir, telling him where to put some soap he was supposed to have shipped. Translation tools do a poor job of translating the anatomical terms used in this letter, leaving it as quite a puzzle for archaeologists!

Propnomicon had a link to a site that hosted ship deckplans, but it seems to be gone; it might show up in the Wayback Machine. Anyway, the Propnomicon post can be found here: http://propnomicon.blogspot.com/2016/09/classic-era-ship-deckplans.html and there are a few sample deckplans linked, including one for an 1825 cargo ship.

Soap?? We Gagarthi don't fall for such tricks! It's a scheme to remove your protective oils and woad and replace them with flowery scents! Probably one of the machinations of the Aldryami!

Why deal with your problems when you can just throw them far away?

*sputters* Sir! Lhankor Mhy is vehemently against Chaos, I assure you! *sputter, sputter, tugs false beard* ... On the other hand, imagine what kind of information you could glean if you had a spy go into a scorpionman den... Think of the academic rewards!... No, no, it's still Chaos, and Chaos is Evil! ...I wonder if they have different forms of address... Are there even scorpionman social strata? Hmmm... it would be helpful to know how followers of different Chaos gods would be identified between scorpionmen... Hmmm...

I was thinking the colors would be for the spectators, what with the more limited range of Darksense...

Actually, I don't believe they're colorblind, as humans experience color-blindness, but rather that their vision is shifted to the ultraviolet end of the spectrum; so, they see colors, just differently? I wonder if trollkin should be painted in garish colors for Trollball games, to make them easier to see on the pitch?

Well, now I can't unsee it! Time to get Illuminated, I guess!

I mean, it's not a lifestyle like Shield Push, but I do like the Sazdorf Whackers & Tacklers.

I noted, in reading through the more recent iteration, that they included a new optional scenario in the Dreamlands involving the Orient Express. I love the idea, but I'm not on-board with turning it into living creatures. I was thinking the Dreamlands already has the detritus of the Real World in it; with the Orient Express being the subject of the dreams of many travellers, it wouldn't be odd to have the thing be in the Dreamlands, too.

Well, if you run into him, tell him to put the extras on eBay and let us know! 😄

I think one of the better options for pistols of the era is the Luger LP 08 "Lange Pistole", also called the "Artillery Luger". This was essentially a Luger P08 with a longer barrel, but it came with a detachable stock and a 32-round magazine; essentially you could, if you needed cover fire, put the stock on and gain more accuracy at distance. A lot of these became available after the Great War, as veterans needed to sell their firearms to stave off starvation during the German Economic Crisis.

This isn't completely accurate. The firing range of the M28 Davy Crockett was 1.25 miles; the M29 version increased this to 2.5 miles. They fired the M388 nuclear round which contained a W54 Mod 2 nuclear warhead; this thing only had a yield of 20 tons, as opposed to the 21 kilotons of Fat Man and 15 kilotons of Little Boy. The M388 had an instantly lethal radiation dosage (in excess of 10,000 rem) within 500 feet, and a probably fatal dose (around 600 rem) within a quarter mile. The blast radius was somewhat larger, but still fell short of the range given above. Of course, it was always possible to accidentally fire the round short, but that's not following the manufacturer's requirements and so voids the warranty.

I have a search pinned on eBay for Beaumains, but it never pings on any of the fanzine issues. I fear I will never lay my hands on any!

Since you, too, are Wakboth, it would require self-destruction, which Liberates your consciousness, and therefore puts you outside of Glorantha anyway.

"The Devil is the Howling Void -- all chaos voids in Glorantha are The Devil. Each hole is a part of the Devil -- like individual leaks in a boat, yet all let in the same Ocean. The Devil is the Ocean. The personification of the Devil is a mistake or misconception resulting from ignorance. Wakboth is the Guise of the Devil -- the insulation between the Devil and Glorantha. He was the ultimate scab formed by the world to protect itself from the invasion of chaos. "Thed is called the Mother of the Devil, which is to say that she opened the hole into the Void. Her broo followers recreate this act when they worship her, creating other holes into chaos to sacrifice their foes and gain new allies. "Rashoran knew this secret, and tried to teach it to the gods of the world; but only a few understood it. The Unholy Trio killed him when they thought they had all his knowledge. They planned to reduce the world to its primal essence and then remake it in their own image, but they failed because they did not understand what Rashoran had tried to teach them. Thus, they were doomed to ultimate failure: The Devil remade them even as they made Wakboth, and they became their own nightmares. "Only I understand the terrible secret of Rashoran, and this has brought me to the sill of sanity. We are all chaos, for life itself does not exist. We are all Wakboth, fighting against ourself to save the non-existent world. I am Wakboth, I am The Devil, and I write this book to show you that you too are The Devil, if only you could realize it." -- The Book of Drastic Resolutions

After 1961, my Investigator characters always try to get their hands on the BGADS, better known as the Davy Crockett.

For Mythos beasties, get yourself a decent-but-not-pretty used trench gun and use Dragon's Breath rounds. The rounds replace the shot with exothermic metals like magnesium, so it basically becomes a gout of flame and shrapnel. It's recommended to use only single-shot breech-loading trench guns for this, because having a full loadout of Dragon's Breath rounds that "cook off" when the magazine gets too hot is not conducive to Investigator longevity.