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<points at Ernaldan's actually becoming Orlanthi> What is this "V" you are speaking of? This is RAW canon! };-D>

Hellow, Rukbat, and welcome! I agree that wolves' fangs just aren't long enough to Impale -- the fangs don't penetrate far enough to do extra "impaling" damage, even though they are "puncture" wounds. Properly speaking -- that is to say, for maximum accuracy -- teeth like that should probably do a new type of damage on a critical, "tearing" damage or the like. Another possibility is to roll some extra crushing damage -- some of those bites can crack bones! I would (just off the top of my head) define a "tearing" critical as -- does normal damage, but destroys the armor in that location (rips it loose from the bodypart hit), leaving the piece flapping loose, attached by a few straps; it will probably foul movement (on the legs) or actions (on the arms), etc. === Finally -- you handled the issue perfectly, actually! Chaosium has made it clear that they don't think the rules should cover every conceivable case or condition; they think the GM should make a ruling and move on.

Lots of good Ernaldan "home and hearth" types find, in a crisis, that they can henna-up and go Vingan. Ernalda becomes Orlanth! 😮 There is always another way ...

Birdcalls have, presumably, diversified a lot since (the rest of) the dinosaurs died out. Everything today descended from those few species of birds that survived the Cretaceous extinction around 65 MYA (birds as a whole having diverged from non-bird dino's about 140MYA; but leaving plenty of feathered dino's not pursuing a bird-ish track). Dino vocalizations may have been a LOT more diverse than that... they had a lot longer to diversify!

I believe additional family-history information is planned to some of the upcoming supplements (e.g. Robin's P&BR), but I could be mistaken...

I imagine one could loosen the pancake, then toss it in any given direction (zero G, all directions equal), and quickly move the pan 'round to catch the 'cake; the raw dough should adhere to the hot surface, at least moderately well, and you return the pan to the heat. It'd probably take some practice, but should be do'able. Of course, pancakes have this "bubbles rise" effect that you won't get in zero G, but I think most of the cooking there is conductive rather than convective, so pancakes may still work OK. Sort of. Waffles would probably do better, with the simultaneous 2-sided cooking...

Personally, I regard tactical maps for combat to be very useful & appreciated, but not quite essential... Maybe "highly advised?" Basically, there just aren't all that many ways that position and facing &c engage mechanically with the RQG rules. d20's "flanking bonus" and "attack of opportunity" and "reach" weapons and such give certain tactical-combat options that are less represented in RQG (much as RQ's hit-locations and armor and such represent things d20 does not). All the same, there are SOME things where a precisely-mapped battle does engage with a RQG rules; particularly limits of movement, ranged-attacks, attacking from where the foe will be "unaware" &c. And more than once, I've seen TOTM combats break down when it was discovered that people at the table were engaging in combat in wholly-different "theaters:" suddenly, something ONE person wanted to do was immersion-breakingly-impossible for another person, or the GM stated something (which clearly would have been self-evident) that nobody at the table had found evident; etc. Resolving those and getting everyone back onto the same page is IME/IMO are a real buzzkill. Edit: but I'm neither pitching to run a game, nor asking to enter one; just reporting my own experience FWIW...

I'm inspired actually by the title of the thread, I'm picturing a a cultist modeled after the Dos Equis "world's most interesting man" commercial. This guy has been in various cults all over the world. He's had cults shut down by Delta Green, by The Laundry, by stick-up-their-ass New Englanders, by the Church, by rival Cults, by failed rituals consuming the entire priesthood. He has looked away just in time from more Sanity-Blasting-Horrors than anyone else has even heard of. At the end of the day, he only asks one thing... Drink responsibly, my friend.

In some ways it's unimportant and irrelevant... but I still get the "warm fuzzies" from this. TYVM Rick, and other contributors (and to the OP for asking!)

Well, I was gonna say "Uleria..." But then I realized that was wimping out. It's Hon-eel.

I'm a BRP grognard, myself, don't know the 7S fandom. Is there maybe some other more active site, a FB group or something, where such things ARE known? Or is this "the place"? Given that it IS Chaosium's "official" forum space these days, maybe it's worth doing a summoning... @John Wick, is that you? @MOB I do know that's you! Should I @someone else? @OldSoldier -- something I've found lately from Chaosium is that their policy seems to be, "give updates when there are updates to give" (i.e. news, changes, progress, setbacks... you know, a change in the status of a project). If things are in the same status they were at last update (still getting art, still in layout, still at the printers... I dunno, what WAS the last status?)... then they don't really seem to see the point of "updating" with some weasely version of "nothing new to say" pretending to be news. Or so it has seemed to me. If they have another policy, I'm happy to be corrected. Edit: The OTHER thing I've gotta point out: Chaosium is really good at this. They may be slower than we fans would like, but I'll place long, l-o-n-g odds on them having first taken a good hard look at the 7th Sea product line, the sales history, the KS obligations, their own resources, and have a really solid footing & business-plan for the project. It may not be the top priority, but I'm sure it IS progressing; that's just how they seem to operate. Edit2 -- I think I do recall that John Wick is currently pursuing the "New Gamemaster Month" in support of 7th Sea; I'm betting that's where he's most active right now.

uhhh ... Skaven?

You know... this strikes me as really spot-on. Nicely called! You'll need to add the "iconic WH" non-human races, but that's easily done!

Neither of us is doing it, unfortunately! We clearly know far better than they do. 😳 I'd hope they'd even be open to someone in their late teens... I've seen some really good performances from the young set! James Marsters has remarked that moving to TV from stage meant adopting a LOT of new techniques & abandoning favored and familiar ones, and that it was really challenging. On stage, actors all need to go big, fill space, project loudly & articulate/enunciate in a similar way, even in the quietest scenes. Because of the initimacy provided by camera views, that comes off as wildly inappropriate in tv & movies. (This was in the context of him being the voice-actor for some audiobooks, where he found the voice-acting let him roll out some of his favorite vocal techniques he used to use on stage)

This is an excellent point. What's more: if the producers &c have the guts & the vision to lean-in on this, they could cast someone with that sort of "odd" look that ISN'T a hugely attractive "leading man" image, and give someone a leading role who'd normally only be up for "character actor" roles. I think that'd be a really good sign that they "get" the stories, and that they understand how much this can't follow the formulaic tropes if they want to stay anywhere close to true to the Elric vibe. I was (and remain) really annoyed at the HP directors casting Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. One of Hermione's defining traits in the books was that she WASN'T a "cute" girl, but plain at best and maybe below-average in looks -- and she was self-aware of this -- it was one of her major personal issues -- and she didn't let it stop her. Sitting in the theater watching Emma Watson introduce Hermione, I said "that's a really cute girl, she's going to become a very attractive teen and have beautiful 'leading lady' looks; before they film the final movie, they'll have a raving beauty. They blew that, on multiple levels."

Hmmm. Paging @Ian Cooper and @Jeff The question was asked a while ago, and the ONLY feedback so far is folks hitting the "Thanks" button ... Which I presume indicates that they share the puzzlement... Which sort of suggests that Someone Official may want to answer.

I would presume this to be an allegorical account of the same facts, or maybe a record of some sort of vision/oracle/etc (which so often comes in allegory).

That'd be the dragonewt instance, that we already knew: "neotenic" means the adults never gain fully-adult features, keeping "juvenile" (aka dragonewt) features into adulthood. Someone upthread alleged (I thought) an actual "devolution" path -- where a dragon strayed from the Draconic Way, & became a Dino -- existed in canon. But maybe I mis-read...?

I think the "pragmatic" reason is that Orlanth is real. And he and Yelm don't get along ... The mythic reason IS the pragmatic reason! Good Orlanthi dan't stay good Orlanthi if they actively worship Yelm, and Yelm frankly can't stand the Orlanthi anyhow... they'd need to convert -- and change their behavior! -- to be acceptable Yelm worshipers. Fortunately, the Orlanthi have "little sun" deities; and even more -- they worship Ernalda, who can manage that bastard Yelm (because she's just that awesome). So the Orlanthi worship Ernalda, and get their bountiful crops and their healthy flocks and etc (all relying on Yelm) and Ernalda manages the unpleasant stuff about Yelm.

Yes indeed. He collated and edited the input from this thread: https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/8203-crowdsourced-old-characters-and-1610s-family-history He'd be the person to contact for corrections and/or improvements, I think!

My thought here is that, given the other 'Questers, it could turn out that you get a bunch of (rather shocking) Sword Trollkin! Lay Members of both ArganArgar and Humakt...

I'm pretty sure there are chat (text) channels with dice-rollers (either built-in, or having an API where others have already built the dice apps). Add a shared Google doc map, and/or other image-share(s) as needed. That should suffice to run a combat scene... always presuming you can schedule a time that works for everyone!!! === The other thing, of course, is a rigorously-enforced SoI -- everyone SoI's each day, GM resolves the round, and narrates the results back. Players reply with new SoI's. Repeat as needed.

TYVM! That is indeed useful! So I think we now have current "canon" which states (at least) 2 sources for Dino's -- M.Gor X Hykim, & Dragonewts (strayed from the Draconic Path). What's the most recent source stating that Dragons can "devolve"? Any other sources for dino's ever appear in canon? I'm guessing that there's some ordinary "animal descent" just like almost every other other Mikyh/Hykim animal (this will likely be the case IMG ... possibly depending on whether canon (or the extended community here) comes up with some sort of particularly-interesting myth on the topic! ) . There are the Jaskali dino-hsunchen, although the Glorantha Wiki tells me they don't shapechange into dino's; did they used to do so? What happened? I do not believe we have any canon which unambiguously states whether differently-sourced dino's can interbreed (or can do so fertilely); nor whether any particular species come from a unique source (e.g. maybe all large carnivorous dino's are draco-sourced?), or whether some species DON'T come from a given source (e.g. M.Gor originated nothing whose adult is smaller than a horse, that being the minimum size to "shake the earth"), etc etc etc... Canon being silent on this, I guess we have to say: ALL Glorantha's Will Vary.

I think you underestimate how much effort they put in to that project! Both of them have said that it takes a lot of time.

I do not believe death provides a "spiritual teleport" effect. IIRC it begins a 7(?) - day journey. Some RW traditions use other durations, up to 40 days IIRC; I think Glorantha has a canonical number here, but don't recall what it is... And may be misrecalling that such a number even exists in Glorantha...