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Completely true. The cold in itself is enough to make hunting dangerous, some of the game can also be, but trolls and demons add another layer of potential troubles.

Because you need food all year long, you hunt all year long, including cold weather. Meat is difficult to keep for long duration, and you need bones, skins and sinew for making clothes and tools. It is also possible that some game can only be hunted in winter (migrating species) and are needed for such or such reason.

I hadn't noticed I am so unaverage: 15 as Height and 16 as Weight

IIRC, Acolytes were in the rules (at least in the Deluxe box), along with Ernalda cult. By the way, Oriflam's french edition replaced Ernalda's cult by Orlanth.

Completely true. The cover by Hubert de Lartigue, and the illos by Guillaume Sorel, Thierry Monter and Alain Gassner were frankly adult. At time of printing, most french RQ players were quite old (25 to 35). The youngster played Stormbringer (with same artists), and some pics were interesting, to say the least. I remember having read on the RQ mailing list a post by an avid australian RQ player that wanted to have it, just because it was the prettiest RQ version to time (his comment was that french RQ players were very lucky). An avid US chaosium collector told us he 'can't read French so I can't say I've done more than look at all of the cool art they did for the books, which is mostly different from the art used in the US, UK, etc.'. Of course, the look and feel is not canon anymore, but it is still nice. For those who want to know what can mean 'more adult', I refer you to P 2 and 3 of Tatou #9 (Oriflam in house mag).

Completely agree here.

I haven't seem the movie, but if it is half as good as Joseph Kessel's book, 'The Horsemen', by John Frankenheimer could describe a grazelander community. It is about Azaras, in Afghanistan, but they are the grand-grand ... grand sons of Genghis Khan's Golden horde, and it shows.

Completely agree here. But I think most of this 'technology' is achievable with creative use of the current Spirit magic spells (like disruption for rodents killing, or slow for catching a cow, like we discussed recently). A few others may be needed, but not much. I think the rest is rituals and habits, but not necessarily magical.

According to RQG p52, if you increase (or decrease) the SIZE of x for extra height range, you should lower (on increase) it of same amount for weight range. A 13 SIZ character is supposed to be 76 to 80kg and 175 to 178cm, but he can be fat and be 86 to 90kg (SIZ 15) and 166 to 170 cm (SIZ 11). Your proposal goes further and is more precise. Is it interesting, yes. Is it worth it, I don't know. It depends on the level of details you want in your game.

Seems to me a good idea. I need to test. Off topic, perhaps, but very good proposal nonetheless.

In that case, I misunderstood what you meant.

Yes. The real problems is for new players/GM, that will not automatically go to a Q&A thread on a forum: They buy and try to use the rules as they (try to) understand the rules, especially when they are not native english speakers (most of my players don't speak english, and are thus unable to search this forum).

As far as I remember, archeological examples of skis appear 5000 to 6000 BC in Russia and China. They are perfectly OK for a bronze age setting.

In fact, for me, even with time, internalizing (as you said), it is difficult to understand what the authors wanted. For me, RQ3 is still the golden standard of readability and clarity. Sometime it is, but mostly not. Some cases are really problematic, but most are not. Yes, it is, and I think an errata would be sufficient. A document that summarize all the changes and clarifications (like pxxx, replace A by B). If done through an errata, yes. If it requires a full rewrite, no. Fully agree. Same. The sheer fact we needed pages and pages of discussion about how we should understand the wounds rules is proof there is a problem. You're harder than I am. I'm also on the crunch side, but I now use RQG with RQ3 replacements. You were not. The points you raised are valid and you were polite. I think you are not alone here in that age position, but nonetheless, RQ3 (that I love) and Pendragon (that I don't like) are far better written and explained. The nicest, prettiest RQ version ever. Completely agree here. I had some problems with new players that were completely unable to understand some rules, so it is not (only) a problem of rules changes, but also a problem of writing and examples. Unfortunately, it is sometimes difficult even if you have a lot of prior experience. In some case, it is even more difficult if you have some prior experience.

I think 'Guided Teleportation', available to Orlanth Rune Lords, is the answer. No range problem, reusable, transports you to an Orlanth safe place.

To increase the value of the sacrifices, I play that the roll has to be below the skill value plus modifiers not counting the MP to earn an exp check. But the full value is used for the success and the result of the worship roll.

Considering the number of correction and clarification, this would be a third. I would buy it. Agreed.

Completely agree here. This is also why I am requesting an official errata. A Q/A thread is of course good, and I am not denying the Well's usefulness, but the sheer value of a clear rule or an official correction or clarification in an offline document is invaluable.

Frankly, I don't know if the gods benefits of it. I just said they like it. If they do, that may explain how Sartar, that is much smaller in size and population than the Lunar empire, can have such results. A better 'Got mit uns' in effect, so to speak.

Agreed, but the gods nonetheless like to receive more MP, and the priests should at least teach that to childrens, so I expect NPC (at least the religious ones, but in Glorantha, that means a lot of people) to spend more than the 1 or 2 mandatory MP. My characters have always spent more MP than what was necessary to go to 100% (I usually go to about half available MP, keeping the remaining ones in case of problem), and I assume that NPC have also the same kind of behavior. The bonus to Worship roll is just a side effect of the gift to the god, not a goal in itself. The 5 to 6 MP added to the temple and High Holy day (or even Holy day) modifiers are sufficient to push the score of a standard Joe Farmer above 100% naturally, meaning a 95% roll.

Completely agree. Figures seems correct. Don't forget the POW gain bonus for priests (Leika is High Priest of Orlanth Rex). It seems a correct usage for 6 POW spent and a few POW gain.

On average, a farmer has 11 and a rodent would have 7. That makes a gap of 4, not 10. Right. If it is running away and you don't want to loose a cow, for me, it does matter. Whatever, my counts were not including that kind of rolls, only High Holy days, sacred time, raids and the occasional spirits.

For a farmer or a tenant, a running cow does matter, and a cow has 3D6 POW, same as the farmer, so it should count.

As far as I remember, disrupting rodents was described in an official RQ product, and was one of the reason most farmers had disruption. For the POW of pests, in the bestiary, almost all living creatures and animals have 3D6 POW. Some have 2D6, the rubble runners have 1D6+6, and some have more than 3D6. We can assume a basic rodent has 2D6.

I'm counting 95% success because of the modifiers Akorahil describes and because I don't see a reason not to push to 100% or over because more MP augment your score and more importantly makes your god happy. This is purely religious fervor (my personal way is to go to around 120% with my characters). And I am not even counting Scotty's rules that told us that tithes count. I was not even counting those not so egregious munchkins tricks. I barely counted 1 raid done or 1 raid received or 1 spirit encountered per year. With those (and disruption against rodents is for me a logical use), you have your 6 rolls per year. Agreed.