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Ah! That explains his dead eye!

A whale of a time?

Some of my key takeaways have been - Salt and Pepper Chicken from a now-defunct Chinese restaurant; Guo ba rou (sort of like Lemon Chicken, but with pork); Special Fried Rice; Thai Yellow curry; Butter Chicken.

You mean, he didn't disguise himself...

Seriously though, in RQ3 sorcery had a Fly spell, and I imagine it'll re-appear in the next book. The question will be how size & speed will interact in the intensity. Orlanth's Flight spell is, RAW, pretty slow Guided Teleport is good .. Once you've been there. It's (RAW) Self only, but I'm sure a HQ could change that. Teleportation with a huuugggeeee Farsee would work, and relatively cheap!

Well, obviously you take a shortcut... Find a gateway into the underworld, cut through there and back up again! Easy...

If you accept that logic, then Speedart and Multimissile become useless most of the time... So, yeah, "at the time of casting"' makes the most amount of sense... And, that's also when the spell takes effect, not just when you start chanting. Being the bastard that I am*, I'd also rule that you do indeed need to still be touching the target to Heal them.. If they decide to run after an enemy to attack, that's on them! (Why don't PC police get all uppity about the mis-use of this word??? So many children born to unmarried couples... Such an unfounded pejorative!!!)

That could be the start of a thread... Possibly a NSFW thread... (Speaking of, what is the thread count? :p)

I would think the most likely candidate for increasing INT from the Lightbringers would be LM... But no Fire there, only Truth. And if LM isn't one to want smarter devotees, I don't know who would!

Oh... I didn't check... The low POW can.be accounted for by previous Taps etc

It only clicked in my head that parchment is dead sheep! One of those "read, but didn't fully get" things. (Edit: not that I thought it was live sheep.. That would just be weird. Even as a mobile library)

What an awesome official license agreement... Chaosium and Lego... Lego.ducks, trolls, dragonewts... Awesomeness!!!!!!

Do you have any idea how many Lhankor Mhy Aldryami had to Heroquest to get to the technological level to have PDF???

Cos.... Spelling 😛

Not sure if this was specifically mentioned in the previous 19 pages, but bind yourself a low POW disease spirit (6 or so) so that it'll have a really low Spirit Combat skill, defeat it for the 1D3 POW (as per previous).... Then, Restore Health on its lost POW. This saves you all the trouble of the random summons.

Oh... Sorry. I misunderstood the intent.

Yelmalio elves & Orlanthi trolls??? That's just asking for trouble!

That's a "sad" face??? I'm really out of touch with emojis... I actually think it's people agreeing with you, about not getting that insight. At least, my interpretation. It doesn't make sense that they'd be sad at your request.

Could someone Heroquest under the effects of a Hallucination spell?

So, augment with any melee weapon 😋

It's been said before, but maybe not stressed enough... One PC non-human is easily doable. Multiple from different races isn't likely to last long as a campaign. There is, after all, a good reason everyone isn't all living in harmony. The "common enemy", IMHO, gets boring pretty quick... And doesn't justify a long existence for the group. But... IIRC, the Wooden Sword had to be returned to the elves to be used properly. So, there is Humakt - a cult that can be worshipped by humans, ducks, elves, and the rare troll. If Humakt gave them all a mission, they'd be forced to work together (but probably not happily). We could also argue that joining Humakt not only severs family and cult ties, but also racial. The PCs could be the beginning of an attempt to reform the Elder Council. (Could just be a vision they've all shared) Something has gone wrong with Dragonewt reincarnation, and their souls are ending up in strange bodies.. and worse, taking on weird personality defects. Or, similarly, Belintar's soul has fractured into these different PCs. A Trickster told a Lie to them that they were all good friends (in the middle of a 5-way battle over a sacred/magical object??) Fate has played a tricksy hand... They'd all sworn a weird oath (along the lines of "the next person who...") and has twisted them together. (Sort of like the Witcher's unexpected surprise thing). The bigger question will be... Can the players RP it properly? In LotR, the dwarves and elves were supposed to have this serious mistrust and almost hatred of each other. Certainly continual suspicion. However, Legolas and Gimli were really boring. I.e., they didn't play their characters well. (Reminds me of Star Trek and other scI-fi with similar plots). Or D&D, where Paladins happily hang around with the CE assassin, long after they should....

Lacquer. Or oil like the gladiators used to. I'd suggest Glamour or Charisma might also, as well as Shimmer, obviously. Beijing roast duck, and Cantonese crispy skin duck also shine..

That's what the Range manipulation is for.

You can have a very real cult based on fake or false beliefs. A fake cult would be one in which the members (at least the upper hierarchy) know it's based on fake or false beliefs. In the real world, that's basically what most religions (cults) think all the others are.

That's sort of what I was thinking... Before the SMU is actually formed. It came together as a ragtag bunch of magicians working together... Which sounds a lot like a typical adverturer party. I'd imagine it became a cohesive whole only after quite a while. Before that would have been lots of fun and shenanigans... Also, the PCs would obviously have to prove their worth before being officially accepted. Years of side quests there on behalf of the Prince...