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Mine is still "Awaiting Shipment", but I suspect I ordered relatively late.

The Bestiary has some cool Zorag necromancer Rune spells that I was thinking about turning into sorcery ones. The sorcery section in the Core book is a bit disappointing. The only necromancy spell in there gives no real explanation how it works. I'll definitely take a look at your stuff if you want to send it!

The guide was the only new book I decided not to buy, so I'm not super worried about strict canon. I wish the book of cults and gods was available, but I'm hoping I can get close enough to a necromancer with sorcery. I haven't made it through all the magic chapters yet though.

The picture of the pregen Yanioth Vareena's Daughter has glowing blue snakes on her arms. Is that just fluff roleplaying set dressing, or is it a more meaningful spell effect? One of my players was inspired by the picture to ask if she could have some simple "cantrips" that do things like make her eyes glow and have spirit-like dragon wings appear from her back when she casts a spell. Is it normally cool to allow PC's some free roleplay "cantrips"? Can this stuff be done with a Rune roll?

Would there be a better way to be a necromancer of the animate dead variety? OR is there another cult? (I doubt it would be detailed in RQG yet, but maybe I could sub in the Zorak game mechanics)

I can't weigh in on the main topic, but when I start running the game the argument above has certainly sold me on dropping failure penalties for augment rolls. I'll still apply a penalty on a fumble, but a penalty for failure just doesn't make sense to me.

Turns out my players are so eager that they already know the world better than I do from wikis and such!

So you would augment your Rep before rolling your Rep to augment a social roll? That's actually pretty cool. What would that look like in game? Something like flourishing your weapon and making a weapon roll while stating your reputation?

Reputation seems useless until over 50%. You get a penalty for failing a Reputation roll to impress someone, so why would you risk it unless you had at least a 50% rep? This is all fine, because characters should have to build a rep before it means something, and it's cool that someone unimpressive gets ridiculed for trying to be impressive. The worrying part is that important npc's in the GM Kit (Rune Lords and such) have Reputation below 50%. It seems like those types of people should certainly be at a level where they could comfortably use their Reputation to their benefit. Is it a bit wonky?

The pyromancer player had done some investigating of wikis and was already considering Lightbringer it turns out. I found Zorak in the Bestiary and it sounds perfect for the necromancer. (do humans belong to the cult as well?) I'm assuming that the create zombie spell creates a zombie and not a revenant like the text says.

Semi-forbidden necromancy will be good for story purposes! I'll look into Dara Happens, as that seems to fit fire scribe pretty well.

Thanks man, that sounds perfect.

Thanks for the pyromancer options. That dream dragon thing sounds great actually! I'm pretty sure she could mold that into her basic idea too. Thanks!

Thanks for that! Being totally new, I had no idea where to begin with necromancy in the setting. What would a "pyromancer" look like in the setting?

A great idea! However, this was almost exactly the background plot of her D&D4e dragonborn character. Still, I might be able to work it in as it would make all the stuff we don't know easier.

All the setting depth is pretty daunting, but I'm looking forward to a deep dive into the Core book this week. Hopefully I'll come out with a better overall idea of things. Looks like my player group will tentatively be: -the "necromancer" with some sort of dragon ties. (Are there necromancer's?!) -either a centaur hunter or a baboon farmer. -a human "chronicler" (scribe I think) "pyromancer" (not sure what this would be, possibly someone who summons fire elementals) -one undecided.

Are they acceptable as PC's? I'll probably start the campaign in the recommended year from the Core.

Wow, this is a great community. I've already run out of "likes" and "thanks" to give people today (I didn't know there was a limit!) Thanks for all the advice and insight so far! Video Pete's idea of a dragon transformed to man is very close to my wife's original idea. I'll definitely be looking into that! I'll also check out the Path of Immanent mastery, magisaurs, and Maran Gor Priestess after work today, as they all sound very cool.

I'll probably drop some of the wacky nature of Dragonewt, and make them a bit more like samurai or Zen monks in my game. It feels like that still follows at least the basics laid out in the Bestiary. I like to go big in campaigns, so what if this act was something involving the human world, maybe an act of vengeance on a human or a settlement. The Inhuman King or a human sorcerer/shaman (or a temple's/cult's god) punishes her by making her reborn human, and out of the cycle of rebirth. She eventually finds and reanimates her old body because (right or wrong) she thinks she can re-enter the cycle with it. (She also wants revenge) I know I'm sticking hard to this background, but I generally like to let the players make whatever characters they want to play within reason in the system. I also realize I don't know much about Glorantha (yet!) I'm not even sure how the Runes relate to the gods.

Thanks guys! So here is what she has decided upon. (Keep in mind we are Gloranthan noobs, and advice/suggestions are more than welcome!) She was a dragonewt who really failed during her last lifetime. Was really evil or something. Instead of reincarnating in another dragonewt form, she reincarnated as human. Now, this part we haven't totally figured out yet, but she wants to be a necromancer and to have her old body as an automaton/mount. (It wouldn't be any more powerful than a bison or something) What she was thinking is that she was really advanced, almost dragon, and then really messed up, OR alternatively she was cursed by a rival/god/etc. Thoughts?

I was wondering if the Dragonewt would be possible as a PC? My wife loves playing lizard/dragon types, and it's the only real lizard type I see in the Bestiary. Also, the Telmori werewolves are listed as being a possible PC race, but in the book there isn't a section calling them out as such.

Hi all, I just went ahead and purchased the entire RQG collection so far. Is there going to be a GM book that is different than the GM kit? If so, what's going to be in it? (I guess I assumed the GM Kit was the book that is mentioned in the Core) Is the errata mostly fixed in the current PDF and print version? (I see an enchanted iron bit of errata that doesn't seem to be fixed in my current Core PDF) The GM kit (I think) said something about Rune-fixes, but I don't see those anywhere. Probably some other questions I'm forgetting. Awesome looking game, can't wait to try it. I owned the first edition way back in the day, and the 6th edition more recently, but have forgotten almost all of my Glorantha knowledge.