Godlearner

14 minutes ago, metcalph said:

which was kinda silly.  

Sense Assassin in kind of silly. Sense Law makes sense as it focuses on a Rune.

IMO, Humakti should have gotten a Sense Undead skill instead the Detect Undead or Sense Assassin.

7 hours ago, mfbrandi said:

Detect ?

Krashti get Sense Law.

In the past games we had following:

• Sense Lunar
• Sense Dragon
• Sense Spirit
• Sense <Rune>

2 hours ago, Lordabdul said:

I once (long ago) wrote an RPG rulebook that happened to be an "in world" item of the RPG's own setting, written by a mad scientist that went insane when he realized the "reality" of his world... which is of course that everything can be described by dice probabilities, and that everybody, except a chosen few, are controlled by an uncaring "god" (the GM).

Of course, many years later, I learned about the secret of the God Learners which is called the "RuneQuest Sight" or something, and which might be very well the same thing! So maybe Glorantha does indeed work that way, but only the God Learners ever knew it

What you are describing has its own literary genre LitRPG LitRPG - Wikipedia. "RuneQuest Sight" can be viewed (and is by me) as manifistation of this. 

7 minutes ago, Joerg said:

Paulis was trained as an Irrippi Ontor scribe, tasked with observing the barbarians he visited. There is a good chance that he used quantized jargon from the Imperial College of Magic to document what he witnessed.

In other words, a nerd.

I man after my own heart.

I avoid all of this because in my world all santients can actually see their character sheets and made decisions based on that information.

2 hours ago, metcalph said:

Except the Cult of Silence still exists.

 

So do those spells

I think that the cult of Gark the Calm is either an offshoot of the Cult of Silence and most likely allied to.

54 minutes ago, metcalph said:

Since mention is made of psychic surgeons and magical communication, I think the cult's magic is sorcery (ie Speak to Mind as Mindlink no loner exists).

Hmm, I would say they used Mindlink and Mindspeech and this is why these spells are no longer around. 🙂

Anyway, players in my game just discovered and contacted a Spirit of Silence and are able to get a couple of interesting spells from it, but are of course obligated to total silence on the days when summoning it. Lets see where this takes them. 

I was hoping for a little more detail on its magic and why it spread so quickly. What was the attraction?

Is there any information, besides Guide to Glorantha, on the Cult of Silence? 

26 minutes ago, Shiningbrow said:

What about the numeric value of variable spells? How do they deal with that? (or, is it not necessary?)

This being a game, I do not worry bout that.

18 hours ago, AndreasDavour said:

Maybe there's a language barrier involved here. Let me try again. Do people talk in game term in your Glorantha? For me that is to cram a big world into a very small RQ box. But YGWW.

IMG yes they do, because my game is GAME centric. People, intellegent beings, see cause and effect and make deductions based on observations. 

On 7/6/2023 at 5:29 AM, AndreasDavour said:

I mean, do people in your Glorantha really talk about "bladesharp" and so on?

Yes

33 minutes ago, jajagappa said:

Because they are gods, not small spirits....

What's good for a goose is good for the gander.

7 hours ago, David Scott said:

For example a shaman that leads the Shadow People, may be a member of Malia is times of great broo attacks and the spirit is added to the society for a while, but no worshipper learns rune magic. They just pay the propitiatory magic points. When the danger is over, they stop, the shaman no longer includes Mallia in the ceremony. Another shaman may not include Mallia like this (for many reasons), the worshippers would have to have a separate Worship (Mallia) skill.

Ok, then why not have a single Worship Lightbringers skill to cover both Orlanth and Issaries?

18 hours ago, hipsterinspace said:

My understanding is that if they are not a part of the spirit society it would be 6. If they are, it’s 1.

Makes sense, but it seems that its a house rule for now. Is that correct?

20 minutes ago, hipsterinspace said:

They are likely to be initiated into the other Praxian water spirit cults: Frog Woman, River Horse, and Dew Maid. Some might also be initiated into more peripheral or situationally useful water-aligned spirits like Diros, Moonbroth, or Rainbow Girl.

And what if they are not? That would be 6 Worship skills.

A shaman and his followers may be worshiping multiple spirits. If these spirits grant Rune magic how do the are these pools reagianed? Would they have to have individual Worship <spirit> skills? Seems excessive.  Can they also know their CHA worth of Rune magic from each spirit?

9 hours ago, JRE said:

If I understand the question, it is more about the ratio between sorcery using LM Sages, and spirit magic using sages. 

As presented now, there is no true sorcery using vs. spirit magic using sages. They are all spirit magic users and some use sorcery as well.

9 hours ago, metcalph said:

They will always be beaten into third place by the Zzaburi (regardless of which school they come from).  Lhankor Mhy is important in Ralian lands but the further westward one goes, I think he will displaced by the rival cult of Enroval the Philosopher whose worship is more compatible with the Zzabuiri mindset. 

I suspect you are correct, but we will only be able to see this once the rules for Mlkioni sorcery are published.

The only reason I would think that it would stop working after the shapechange, is that previously it was stated in various places that spells cast on weapond with multiple striking surfaces, like spears with both sharpened ends, or animals with multiple attack forms (or humans), had to be placed on a specific end/attack.  In the case above, the Ironhand would have most likely been cast to affect a punch or a kick, or a head butt and bears do not have those forms of attacks. If the spell was lets sy cast to improve the humans bite attack, and in certain situations that would make sense, then I do not see a reason as to why it not continue to work in bear form on the bite.

3 hours ago, Brian Duguid said:

Do you mean the RQ2 battle magic spell Ironhand? I'd say that will definitely carry over. But it only lasts for 10 melee rounds i.e. two minutes, not 15 minutes, and it has a maximum benefit of +20% skill / +4 damage, so it's not great.

5 minutes in RQ3

On 5/29/2023 at 7:02 AM, soltakss said:

Personally, I don't bother with Sorcery in RQG, as a Player or GM, as, in my opinion, it is too complex, not interesting, and doesn't feel right.

Sorcery has been mistreated in all versions of RQ and its a shame.

So various Holiday Dorastor supplements have dungeons and scenrious for this type of play. Not it Prax, but you could adapt. If you want something more specific, I can direct you better.

4 hours ago, Erol of Backford said:

Thank you for that, it's no longer iron when it has fire blade.

I can just see ZZ getting a trolling a Fireblade having it cast on the Humatki iron swords to "lessen the damage"

2 hours ago, Squaredeal Sten said:

In your view, would such a feature give the Adventurer a detectable chaos taint? 

If its a Chaos Feature (which also gives the character a chance of becoming a Broo) then YES!!! even if its not visible.

If its not a Chaos Feature, but attunes the character to the Chaos Rune (similar to becoming an initiate of a Chaos cult), then YES!!!  

If its neither, then how is the charater tainted?