Godlearner

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I agree. As with all spirit spells though if your cults don't teach it, and you don't know a shaman who knows where to get it, then it effectively is not available.

Never really had an issue with this. Players always seem to be able to find a shaman willing to teach if they just go handle this little problem.

The most useful spell, but one you do not see very often is Detect Detection.

 Detect Chaos this one used to be problematic in my games. I never want to give a spell that is for one point is better than a rare skill. I think it would be better now days with something like:

Detect <Rune> - Which would detect a presence of an association to a particular rune. The range of a spell would depend on the strength of association. 

Yeap, I remember them. Added some of mine to JC publications.

Did not fit the Bronze Age theme of Glorantha.

In a game we played in the late 80's and early 90's the Sun County got involved in a Civil War between the various pro and anti Lunar factions. The end result that their military was mostly destroyed, but the anti Lunar faction won and there were representatives during the liberation of Pavis.

18 minutes ago, Agentorange said:

Imagine an alternative universe where RQ etc had proved to be as  popular as D'n'D/d20

Yeah, I would not be working in my day job that's for sure.

2 hours ago, Martin Dick said:

No one ever gets out of Dorastor 😈

Not exactly true, lots of things get out of Dorastor. 

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 9 hours ago, Godlearner said:

Not on the planning board ... yet.

It's on my planning board, but not on yours, yet ...

 

Ok, twist my arm, but at this pace you are never getting out of Dorastor.

Do Chaos cults such as Primal Chaos, Puchango, Krarsht, Krjalk, Seseine and Urain have Holy Days? When? Asking for a friend.

4 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

Telmori for Risklands then, perhaps? Or is that in some other product?

Not on the planning board ... yet.

One if the things we are doing is including previous experience for Spiderkin  in Spider Woods and Ogres in Seven Hills just in case you want to play something different or from a different angle.

2 hours ago, Akhôrahil said:

Why doesn't this interface have a ❤️-button?!

Also, what year are you going with? The 1617 of Dorastor or the 1625 of "modern" time?

Its not any year specific, but in my mind I would say closer to 1625

On 5/23/2021 at 4:43 AM, Agentorange said:

I don't think so, I never saw or even heard of it being published. It was mentioned at the back of the Dorastor book somewhere wasn't it ? Along with a supplement called Gods of Dorastor which also never saw the light of day.

soltakss and I have also published Holiday Dorastor: Temple of Heads  https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/356993/Holiday-Dorastor-The-Temple-of-Heads?affiliate_id=66807

as further adventures in Dorastor. That does not have additional Riskland campaign stuff, but the one we are working on Holiday Dorastor: Spider Woods will and could be integrated with an existing Riskland campaign. After that we are working on Holiday Dorastor: Seven Hills. We are considering more, but got enough on our plates as is. 

LOL, and that is on top the two new supplements we are working on and two others that I know off that you are working on. Good thing your wife is away for a bit. 

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Johnstown Compendium would be a great place for anyone who got the RQ bug and wanted to publish an adventure in the same way adventures were published in White Dwarf magazine or by Judges Guild or anywhere in between (with most of the JC content probably trying to hew close to canon).

As someone who is doing just that. I agree.

The key to, as far as I am concerned, is to start on a micro level with Glorantha. Don't worry about what is going on on the macro level, and just try to kill that Broo which has been eyeing your herd.

48 minutes ago, ffilz said:

Honestly, much of what I have heard about RQG turns me off. Part of that is because my Glorantha is NOT the Glorantha of today. It is the Glorantha of RQ1 with Cults of Prax added on. The implied setting of RQ1 is NOT bronze age, it's more medieval, or at least "D&D-like fantasy" (with skills instead of classes and levels...). That's the setting I've played on and off, with at least some play in every decade, since 1978. I don't NEED all that stuff that ties RQ more mechanically to Glorantha because it isn't making ties to MY Glorantha. Sure, my choice NOT to buy RQ2 a year after I bought RQ1 set me on a path of sticking with the original, but it's what I am comfortable with and like. I don't need to absorb hundreds of pages to run my RQ. Picking up RQG for me would actually put me in the deep end just like the OP. Or worse because I'd have to unlearn something...

All that said, that's ME. For others, I'm confident RQG is the right game for them.

And the Starter Set will help people get in. And I'm going to buy it for the cool content. And I will eventually buy RQG to see if there's anything I want to steal.

In that case you should stick to RQ1 or invest into RQ3 or BRP as it supports that style of play. You would still be interested with various published scenarios published for RQG. 

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 impoverished farmers might not have any combat-related spells

I found that most Spirit Magic is combat related, or can be if used correctly.

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Which is totally fine. I don't know why people feel that they need to make more work for themselves than this.

Work at playing a game ..... yeah, I can see it.

2 minutes ago, Godlearner said:

Stat blocks are great as samples of what can be made and the unusual. I love making stat blocks for rarely played cults to explore the range of abilities. For the mundane, I use the average listed in the Bestiary or wing it by just assigning a certain competency level for core skills like 50s, 70s and so one

Now having said that, I am not exactly sure just how many stat blocks I did for the Temple of Heads supplement, lets just say it was a bunch, but most are very unique.  

Stat blocks are great as samples of what can be made and the unusual. I love making stat blocks for rarely played cults to explore the range of abilities. For the mundane, I use the average listed in the Bestiary or wing it by just assigning a certain competency level for core skills like 50s, 70s and so one

4 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

Hoiy... to which god?

That's the thing, the only cult I know off which can create Holy water is Zola Fel. I would assume other river cults and most water cults could do it as well, but all of those would lead to the reawakening the Gloomshark Temple. (que Jaws soundtrack)  

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Thanks, I'll fix this promptly.

Wait a couple of days, just in case there are a few other things that need changing and do it all at once. Otherwise you can get into numerous versions listed at the same time.

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Raiding a Thanatar temple full of tentacled sharks!

Are you trying to awaken Cthulhu? Because, let me tell you, that is how you awaken Cthulhu!

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my intention of having my players raid this place over and over until they burn it out and sprinkle holy water on the trampled ashes.

Wish them luck

hehehehe

8 minutes ago, svensson said:

Well, Ogres and Thanatari are 'ambush predators' by nature and training. They may not have to hide avoid retribution in Dorastor, but hiding for the sake of setting an ambush is still likely.

Not in Dorastor. Ogre centric supplement (Holiday Dorastor: The Seven Hills) coming after we finish Holiday Dorastor: Sider Woods