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  1. I think the system is robust enough to allow any levels you'd like. RQ2 leaned into the "zero to hero" trope, and starting PC's apex skills were typically well below 50%; RQG has the same basic chassis at the table, but char-gen produces much more experienced starting characters routinely have apex skills of 85% and over. I wouldn't bother with limiting to only +15% on combat skills... someone who grows up in a military family, or a hunting one, IS going to learn a higher level of weapon skills than the general populace... and that's honestly OK. Whatever level you pick: sanity-check your choices by attempting to min-max whatever you select in a few runs of character-creation.
  2. Honestly, you seem to be asking folks to do your own game-development for you. As to which book(s): I expect the core BRP book -- either BGB or UGE editions (UGE only if you're looking to publish) -- would have all (or at least most) of what you need. Try there, flesh out the majority of your talents, and look to other books when/if you find yourself unable to fill out your last few. Also -- fwiw -- the every-other-line format seems hard to read. I'd collect the ages, and indent the sub-points:
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    Kitori Warbands

    Hmm. Can you lay out a few rough outlines for us?
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    Kitori Warbands

    Not even all Orlanthi have leadership confined to the "Rex" cult. Sometimes an Ernalda priestess, or someone Solar, or even a Goldentongue, will become leader. And the Kitori aren't entirely an "Orlanthi" culture.
  5. Back onto the Furthest book: does it have any other artworks (besides maps) going onto (or already on) Redbubble?
  6. One must -- quite Obviously, my friend -- write in an archaic fashion, with Randomly Capitalized letters, such that the Modern Reader is utterly Befuddled, and quite entirely Forgets to Post their so-called Corrections.
  7. Thank you, Jason... this answers exactly the question I was about to pose (and confirms the rhetorical "it's probably a PITA to reconcile..." I was gonna include).
  8. You are not exaggerating! 1st-10th is the "first part" of the month, 11th-20th is the "middle" & 21st-end is the "last part" of the month. Alternatively, we are 3 days from the single mid-month day (the 15th; or 4 from the 16th), vs. 11 days from the "start" of the month. 🙂 I am absolutely certain that Chaosim will give us "news" when there is "news" to give: they are, after all, in the business of selling us these books! But I think they do not care to be in the business of periodically saying "No news; no, not a single new." Nevertheless, I share your agony... all praise Danfive Xaron & the Lunar Way!
  9. No news because (at least some of) the books are still somewhere in the shipping process. So long as there is a piece of the process with events outside Chaosium control (storms re-routing container-ships, stevedore strikes stopping unloading, a ship going crosswise in the Suez, etc; which, IIRC, have each caused substantive delays in deliveries) I think "in the shipping process" IS the state of things, and the Chaosium position is that "there isn't any news to report."
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    Durulz & Death

    So, we know the Durulz are inherently "death-y" and show up with more Humakti than one would expect from your random bunch of Donald & Howard wannabe's. What about some other "Death-y" cults? Lookin atchu, Magasta, with your alongside your ... But also, Urox got that + thang goin' on. And of course, everyone knows the Ducks are only "small" because so much of their mass is stuck in the chip on their shoulder... so the whole vengeance-y aspects of Babeester Gor should appeal to (at least some) Durulz. Now, obviously Humakt "owns" ... in some ways Humake is ... so I see him being the most-apt for the drake schtick. But what of those other gods? Aren't they (at least some of them) also likely to pick up a few more Ducks than one would expect, simply because of the Durulz' runic affinity?
  11. Also: I have long been struck by similarities between the "timeless" eternal Now of Glorantha's "God Time" with (what I understand of) the Australian "Dreamtime."
  12. Given that Runemagic is heroforming your god... and that cattle-raiding is a ubiquitous pastime of most Sartarites... Orlanth is always stealing his own cattle.
  13. I haven't picked up QUASAR yet; it's on my "to-buy" list, but I'm unclear on this point: if you're still basically using BRP core(?), there's AFAIK absolutely no reason you couldn't submit your next(ish) publication to the contest.
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    map source

    It seems very possible that -- way back when, at a point now lost to memory or documentation -- somebody (Greg, and/or an early mapmaker) did in fact take some degree of inspo from Maiden Castle -- or Jerusalem! -- which was then informative of Jeff's stuff that in turn informed Jaja's. Or, y'know, could just be "convergent evolution:" most any hillfort built on a long ridge (rather than a round-ish hill) is liable to be relatively-similar, such as (to pick a random example) Jerusalem & Dorset's Maiden Castle...
  15. That FAQ is a nice supplement to the original announcement, and very useful. TYVM!
  16. n.b. that thread is periodically swept by Chaosium & addressed en masse, rather than each being addressed as it's posted here. I'd expect most of the recent items to be not-yet-addressed.
  17. Not boobs... Those are some massive cojones, man! 😉 (more seriously, the overall "humanoid" bodyplan shouldn't be presumed to mean every aspect is identical; maybe that's a water-reserve from an arid-planet species, or ducts for holding a binary-ignition incendiary, or etc etc etc).
  18. Thank you, @AndreJarosch & @MOB. Next question @Chaosium: I know Chaosium doesn't want to see any AI work in product submissions. What about AI in "mood boards" & "reference images" & the like, when the author can't find good images to show an artist? I could see it used in place of "found online" art, to help the artist & author communicate better... not in place of paid art. (I ask specifically because I've got some ideas I've never really seen adequately portrayed -- and wouldn't care to attempt even a rough sketch -- but I suspect could be explored via AI imagery)
  19. I admit to a bit of puzzlement, on a couple of items above... "A production budget for their game." If the creators are mostly "new and upcoming" then they don't likely have any reasonable background to estimate such a budget. If their target is a 48 page manuscript with at least a small color artwork on most pages, plus a half-page piece at each chapter, and a full-page cover... what should their art budget be? Are they up to 64 pages in total? If they have no skills/background in layout, what should they budget for? Etc... "A competitor market analysis of their game, showcasing where it fits in the market as a product." Similarly, I'm unclear how much competence the newbie author/dev brings to this element. I suspect that any of a half-dozen folks @Chaosium will do better at this with a minute or two of thought, than any given "new and upcoming creator" will do after 20-30 hours of research. Thanks for any assistance in helping me resolve these puzzlements!
  20. The Syphon river flows backwards -- "up"river (whatever that means in this context). That would seem to make the river an extraordinarily-valuable route for commerce to the interior of Heortland. Or is it too problematic, with Chaos/etc genuinely hosted there? Or am I missing something else preventing such use? Also -- is it a saltwater river, as it flows up from the sea? Or is this a magic-Glorantha-thing, where the salt / brack / fresh regions are similar to other rivers (and earthly logic is shown the door)?
  21. Hi, I've got 2 Durulz I'm looking to illustrate. #1 - an NPC I'd like to show a pic of, to my players. He's a Durulz Humakti, of the Bufflehead clan. Are there any Buffleheads in the Duckpac books? What about the old Mongoose supplement? Any other sources? My inital Google didn't find anything... At worst, I may have to ask a couple of AI-art junkies who I know, if they can gen something up. 😞 #2 - a PC, a female Common Merganser (with the bright russet head) who is a Lunar warrior, YT or the like. This one almost certainly will need to end up as a commissioned piece of art, eventually, as there are too many too-specific details; "found art" online won't suffice. But as a first-pass and/or moodboard for an artist to reference, any pointers are welcome!
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    Otters ...

    I have BoHM, but don't recall this element and can't lay hands on it, at the moment. Can anyone explain this "why" (don't need the full myth, just the tl;dr & will read the full myth later (and thank you for the page-ref, @David Scott -- it's one I don't have in PDF). I see "Heort threw a rock..." on the wiki (hosted on fandom), but it's unclear if he was intentionally chasing them away, or if that was an unintentional side-effect (and why, it not being a Dragonkill or the like, they haven't gradually found their way back...?)). I had previously imagined them largely across the southern coast of Genertela (certainly including the Mirrorsea). ??? Am I just mis-remembering that the term was also used in the RQ2/RQ3 era, in one or more of the books set on the Zola Fel? (and to others in thread -- thank you for your suggestions & info & assistance!)
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