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  1. And remember the great thing about ladies loving ladies, it ant covered in the bible and produces no bastards.
  2. Swords are very very expensive compared to a shield. Plus swords don't block ranged attacks. Also the repair spell reduces HP by half lost so eventually you have to see a Smith. Broad Sword is 50L a medium shield is 14C. For hide 1L Wicker and 12L for wood. A large shield is 25C for hide, 5L wicker and 40L for wood. With zero difference for material, as in stats, hide shields are a smarter chohidein stats.
  3. Also the Dragon Newts didnt kill off the EWF, it was essentially every body out side of Dragon Pass dog piling EWF, then once the barbarians won, the barbarians deciding that sacking Dragonnewt cities was a good idea and wich sparked off the Dragon Kill War as a result. Draconic Mystism works. Attacking a Dragon Newt Nest does not.
  4. In Cults of terror they kind of alluded to different outcomes of illumination. Almost as if illumination is the first step of enlightenment. The first is the most constructive Nysalor style, accepting that chaos is a part of this world and how it interacts with the world, the problem is not with chaos perse but rather the corruption of chaos with out direction wich is of the devil. This gives you Gabaji illumination this is the selfish destructive form that if chaos and order are the same, then any desicion i male is the same as any other so I do what I want. Then there is Arkat's style of illumination, this one resulted in a broken world ruled by darkness, perhaps the best form maybe as it tries to teach iĺlumination with restriant. As the members try to police other illuminates in making sure they dont go down the path of Gabaji. What I think is the problem with illumination is that it is only a brief moment of the light going off of an epiphany and after that it takes hard directed work to keep that clarity with out making assumptions with out going down god learner and EWF paths of self destruction.
  5. With every one mentioning storm bulls forgets one thing. Not a lot of people enjoy having them around. Stormbulls are massive A plus ranked jerks. They are only barely tolerated, and that is only when a obvious chaos threat pops up, or all other methods have failed to solve a problem. So treat Stormbulls as just barely better than the cure. So when a bend of Stormbulls show up, they kill the chieftains prized horse, drink all of the booze, took a dump in the corner of the hall, impregnated your daughter and ate the prized cow, but took out a band of broo, and you still had to pay them.
  6. I like the bottom one. Is there a reason that ghouls went clive barker body mod on us for 7th edition?
  7. There is Ernalda, Chana Arroy and any other goddess of healing with life or fertility runes. You can chanel Runes to boost childhood survivability. Also ancient societies often ,especially agricultural, had lots of kids to have maintain populations. Also reading through the the core rules. Even a free farmer might not live much above poverty. After tithe a single Hide only generates 64 L a year. With a Free lifestyle thats 60L a year. That only leaves 4 L a year in profit. Vs a cotter making 32L a year after tithe for a 17L in excess. So a free farmer to maintain a middle class life style with room has to own atleast 2 hides and have it either worked by a cotter or more preferentially by Thralls/bondsmen/slaves. Then use your local cult to maintain survivability of children. So more likely a tentant farmer will also engage in some light cattle raids to boost income. Or pocket high productive years to eventually either purchase his land, or gain slaves to act as an overseer to improve lands he is renting.
  8. So I think poor is sappose to be a temporary situation that most characters will find them selves in. If they are poor due to lack of lands then the clan is sappose to expand and wage war on neighbors for an award of land and herd for service to country. Now the main remover of the number of children that nobles have is a probably a combination of contriceptive spirit magic, and violence. Most Nobles after the hier and spare are expected to be warriors of some sort. Even the hier and spare are expectedto maintain skill of arms.
  9. There is a supplement that I cant remember the name. The supplement was a 3rd party equipment manual for the 1920s. It was super extensive and had body armour and weapons and cars out the wazoo.
  10. Can we please make the ghouls look like the canine hoofed bipeds thst like to eat a corpse and not some edgelord grimdark cenobite thing. Look just because it ate Uncle Mastiveus a few months after burial does not mean it needs hooks, chains and barbs threaded throughout thier body. I saw that as more propaganda than an accurate picture. You know the tall tale that gets passed around rather than reallilty.
  11. Or... Elmal exists not as some grand hero but a loyal servant. Elmal did not go in the light bringers quest, he was stuck keeping the hall and making sure Orlanth had a throne to come home to. His is the god servants and stewards. Loyal but often forgotten till needed. The position is important but never wins honor. Yelmalio cults arrival and importance in Sartar is only because of diplomacy. What about Heortland or other Orlanthi civilizations? Would Elmal not have a place at the table then? Plus one can assume not every Orlanthi in dragon pass was ruled by Sartar or his short lived dynasty (almost a century) beyond name. Plus what about the Ducks. Dont they hate Yelm and his progeny, I could definitely see them being Elmal hold outs.
  12. So two sessions in with a new group and just finished The Haunting, taking down Mr Corbitt with a sucessful run with only one death, a result of an Impale with a .25 Derringer. Mr Corbitt him self falling to a critical roll on a 1911 Pistol, just a epic strike at the last moment with barely any life left in them.
  13. The problem wast that the God Learners lost or failed. The problem was they were very successful but didnt have a complete understanding. Everything they did worked, they were just kind of sloppy with thier experiments or failed to forsee an unknown variable. The God Learners still exist just not as a giant civilization, Aragrath, Arkat, and Sartar were very educated in God Learner methadology. Think of them as the scientists of Glorantha, and those works were the big Manhattan Project.
  14. Amongst the Oranthi I would limit literacy amongst urban and noble Satarites under the sway of the Sartar dynasty, until the Lunar invasion. The reason being Sartar did develop a program to facilitate education and literacy.
  15. This was WEG starwars, when jedis sucked until they didnt. Most of the time we didnt mean to kill the cannon characters its just when ever they showed up the GM would start rolling very very badly, and we would roll many exploding dice and 6s.
  16. Honestly I always treated metaplot as one varient of how things can go down. Kind of a "no fate but what we make" suggestion. I dont think we even think we played a cannon star wars campaign. I cant tell how many times we killed Skywalker on purpose or even accidentlty or just failed at being a bothan spy. Eventaully our GM either stoped including famous events or played in whaf I called the broken galaxy, where every one lost and the entire galaxy balkanized.
  17. Remember that its not just weight but carryability aka awkwardness. Like backpacking with a 50lb backpack is not too hard bit trying to walkaround with a 50LB desk or chair is weird and clumbsy so is more encumbering.
  18. Something hit me, while looking at my books, I have 3 source books Down Darker Trails, Keepers Handbook, and Pulp Cthulhu. Each set in a different "era" wich changes the theme of the game or tone. Pulp is in the 30s amd gives investigators that two fisted oppertunity when fighting the horrors to survive, before being swollowed by the inevitability of WW2. DDT focuses more on a expansive unknown inhospitible wilderness where all that lies before you is desolation and doom. 1920s you hope to seek answers in books only to succeed in buying mere moments if you win, at the cost of your soul. These are what I have found, the source book that has the brightest hope is in Terror Austrailis what with the Dreamtime of the Aborigines maybe offering a means to battle the eldritch horors if only we can stop the destruction of thier culture and let they can find new stories.
  19. As much as I enjoyed so far what I watched so far, my watching is constantly getting restarted, I found the current demonizingnof HP Lovecraft to be irksome. To claim his views were not common of its day is disengenuous as the man was a product of his environment and nature. He was raised in a time peak of thenaccepance of eugenics and some 8f the worst atrocities committed in the USA, he was very much thenclassic WASP. But most important was the untreated crippleling anxiety. HP Lovecraft was a man tormented by mental health issues that not only enriched his writing but unfortunately also fueled his more unpleasant opinions. Like a good author he used his fears in this case seafood and people turned it into some thrilling tales. His views softened overtime as he came out of his shell and maybe had cancer not ravaged him might have had an opportunity to retract his statements. If you dig into 1920s history and social norms you will realize it was not just HP Lovecraft but humanity as a whole who had some questionable traits, and pretty sure ifmwe dragged outnevery ones private thoughts they would find some issues. That said lets celebrate his contributions to litiature and remember that HP Lovecraft was not a monster just a man with problems who was around a time when racist grand parents were dealing with their racist grand parents.
  20. Honestly just swap out the beast rune for shamans this will help make them alien compared to the rest of the village, which is what they are. The core book has some gaps as far as rules and the runes we see right now is only the beginning, i have a feeling that as the game grows we will get more runes and how to add or swap runes in the characters soul. Also we dont have rules for enlightenment/illumination wich im thinking will remove the one rune runs counter to another ie death and life, movement and stasis so on and so forth.
  21. I think they dropped the ball in not maling it clear but there is only one rule book. The Keepers Rule Book is the core rule book. It has all the core rules and everything needed and more to play. The Investigators handbook just has expanded character options, all the 1920s background info and guidance on how to play a investigator with out being killed, by tge usual techniques. So if they do a updated release dont call it the keepers rule book, call it the Core Rule Book, as that also slowed down my acquisition.
  22. What about runequest fiction, instead of conan as he is a historical figure.
  23. Wasnt the Great White Space more like the Webway from 40k, ie a artificial plane outside spacetime to facilitate travel and extradimensional storage.
  24. Heres the thing about Call of Cthulhu. The differences in editions are mild. 7th edition is the biggest leap forward in difference in the game since 1st to 2nd edition CoC. Those changes are going from 3-18+ attributes to percentile based, clarification of chase rules, simplification of melee (material pf weapon use to matter for parry), addition of push rolls, and bonus and penalty dice with caps. Infact I use the 5th edition Dreamlands source book. Unlike Dungeons and Dragons the BRP based games have not really change all that much. They evolve gradually and changes of edition are more or less done for refinement and clarification and not to invalidate your library.
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