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I was quoting from the Well of Daliath -- they used "herder hired as bodyguard" as an example-case. But I disagree about "adventurers" in Glorantha: it's not a "Profession" you can take in character-creation, no... but neither is there a W2 form! The map is not the territory. "Do heroic stuff" is the metric, agreed. The key question, to me, is whether that's a one-time or very-rare thing... or is the person a "habitual offender." The one-off-adventure Farmer, the very-occasional-adventure Hunter: they remain Farmer and Hunter If a character becomes the "go-to" person whenever a community (of herders/hunters/farmers/whatevers) needs an "adventurer;" if they have a "wandering" Profession (such as working caravans or ships... merchant, carter, guard, teamster, etc) and regularly do "adventure-y" side-quests from their nominal "Profession;" in short, if a non-trivial portion of their time becomes "adventuring" -- then I would consider them "professional" adventurers. And they will gain Reputation as-such. Once they are known as an "Adventurer," their nominal/original "Profession" has continually-decreasing relevance. People stop thinking of them as a Farmer, as a Hunter, as a Whatever. (that last is probably a Eurmali... "whatever" their nominal "profession" is)

But is that simply the fact that wraiths are always malevolent? That every time a Humakti meets a wraith, the wraith attacks? Humakt may see wraiths as something akin to a hungry lion: dangerous, needs dealing-with; but it is what it is, and it isn't a problem to Humakt's theology; it's "just another ghost," albeit an unfortunately-hostile one.

So far as I know, Humakt's beef is only with the walking dead, the embodied-but-still-active dead. Ghosts & other disembodied spirits are (theologically) just fine, normal, and unexceptional. Of course, any specific "spiritual entity" may (just like any specific living entity) be problematic for a slew of other ... reasons. Humakt got plenty of reasons.

IMG, it's possible to make the argument that it isn't income, and you may even be able to make that stick, depending on circumstances; but remember that Glorantha is not a modern society with a huge body of tax-law in place (I suspect the Lunar & Kralorelan tax-codes are rather larger & more complex than Sartar's). "Income" isn't limited to "ready coin..." that's just a convenience & a modern-day referrent. As @svensson noted: I think you probably owe 1800L in taxes (over and above the taxes on whatever you earned and/or liberated the rest of the year). At the least, your overlord likely thinks so... or at least feels so, and is grumpy about the 1800L-hole in their treasury. Your adventurer(s) may develop a reputation for being grasping, greedy, selfish. The Well of Daliath says: If your "adventurers" are recognized as-such (if they solicit or accept missions or assignments or the like from nobles/merchants/etc; if they don't act as land-owners / crafters / merchants / &c and don't actively pursue that path of earnings; if they use plunder as income (spending liberated funds on cost-of-living expenses (including friends & followers expenses) &c); etc etc etc) then their occupation has become "Adventurer" and they must count 100% of plunder as income... even inconveniently-huge-and-indivisible lumps of income. As always, of course -- YGMV & YGWV.

Very true! But much of it is pretty explicitly as "edutainment" teaching-stories, the sort of thing where you're gently introducing younglings to the story, or teaching the same moral outside the "Bible" context for audiences who will hear it differently in different contexts; etc... Not all of it, of course. But there's a lot of the "popular" stuff that's just thinly-disguised religion, which doesn't seem apt to lump in with the genuinely secular stuff. Even things that religiously-offend many believers (lookin' at you, Last Temptation of Christ) are still produced with a fundamentally-religious perspective. Every table & GM is different, of course! You are probably right. As you say, it likely depends very-much on the OP's table. Even if people aren't severely offended, there's all sorts of opportunities for people to have... feelings... about Biblical stories coming into their Glorantha (sociologically, there's a serious amount of Ancient-World in common, of course; but for many, that's not the "best" approach toi this content!). From my own gaming-experience: I don't know enough about every person I've ever gamed with to know if any of them were religious-enough to be offende; but I do know that I've had one or two ardent-enough atheists for whom any whiff of explicitly-Biblical content was offensive... unless it was explicitly-designed to be blasphemous & offensive to the believers! (Lord save us from 20something edgelords! 🤣 ) I don't think you can have that both ways, actually. Anything that's "touchy for non-religious reasons" is probably not "safe," no... And yes, this element is indeed "touchy!"

Well, in the context of "Honestly no idea why Gark zombies are Chaos and ZZ zombies aren't" ... there's this:

Honestly, I'd change: the total number of plagues the nature(s) of many/most of the individual plagues (e.g. not "frogs" but rats; not "hail" but a severe Storm Bull windstorm; etc) I would *entirely* dissociate the Gloranthan list of events from the Bible. Because the potential to give offense is just huge... and frankly, pointless. So easy to not.

I'm pretty sure that the circle the sling passes through can operate vertically -- alongside the mount & rider(s) -- and thus not endangering any of the 3.

☝️THIS!☝️ Orlanth forged alliances nobody else could. He convinced enemies to ally with one another. He conducted diplomacy in the mortal and Spirit realms alike. He may often be deep into arcane plans, delving into deeper insights... boldly going where no one had gone before... But when he turns his attention on you... it's inspiring, uplifting, empowering.

That'd be Argrath... because... It's Argrath's (secret) Ring!

TYVM for returning with a play-report!!! So often, people come ask & then never return to give feedback! This is really welcome. So now, let me ask YOU: what games-mechanical / PC-build / NPC-build things are you now doing, to convert BECMI to BRP+CF? 😁

As I Understand It: There was a time -- long ago -- when a very "tournament-like" Dart Competition was held by upper echelons of Lunar society. It was much like an archery tournament (i.e. aimed at targets not competitors -- small targets, moving targets, etc). At one of those events, one noble "accidentally" hit a rival, and killed him. The victim's family struck back not long after -- using a Dart as the weapon, to make the message clear -- and (as such vengence-fueled exchanges do) the violence continued -- usually with Darts in the style of the formal competition. Other noble families -- never ones to be left behind when new fashions arise -- began to get in on the action. And centuries later, it still continues.

Nobody's accused Mr. Brooke of being stupid! A treacherous Lunar proselytizer, out to conquer your conscience and your bank account, sure. But not stupid!

I'd cap a passenger's missile-skill at the rider's skill -10% I think. The passenger is experiencing all the bouncing & jouncing that limit the rider's own missile weapons... ... but without the communication & feedback the rider has, the "feel" for what the mount *is* doing, is *about* to be doing.

Ringworld is a licensed property. As I understand it, someone moneyed in Hollywood bought a comprehensive license, and Chaosium wasn't in a position to counter-offer: the RPG industry doesn't really have Hollywood-style money. Until/unless someone licenses it again, there won't be another Ringworld RPG. Amazon was developing a Ringworld movie -- or maybe a TV series -- so a licensed RPG doesn't seem outside of the realm of possibility... but OTOH that's like 18months ago (as the most-recent) and a quick Google found nothing since then, so maybe it died quietly, unremarked... 😞 In other news: Alephtar is now "Cloud Games" but I think their older BRP titles are more-likely to see new life under their own d100-variant ruleset, "RD100." @RosenMcStern would know more; I think he plans to ORC some of what they publish, but obviously cannot ORC a licensed product.

I think the current "hard-science" darling is probably The Expanse 'verse... but that's already got an official ("AGE" engine) adaptation 😟 (I think BRP would have been very well-suited!). But a general "hard science" game (where one could implement The Expanse (or 2001:SpaceOdyssey, or any other hard-sci-fi setting))... that could work! Including a book that came with its own worked setting: you could just start playing & running from the book, but also use the book to implement any other hard-sci-fi setting. And I think it well worth taking Chaosium's lesson to heart: BRP-based games with strong settings -- even idiosyncratic settings -- prosper; BRP-games with more-generic settings do not. Of particular note, since you asked about Orbital2100/2300AD & the like: there's @clarence Redd's M-Space (which began as "BRP Starships," which morphed into BRP-Space, which then moved over to the Mythras engine (largely for licensing reasons, AIUI)). It's still close enough to BRP to be directly usable, for those used to FrankenBRP'ing stuff; but that's not the finished-book ORC-Licensed goal, I think. However, he took lots of inspo from Traveller... so a similar-ish project could obviously be (re-)launched! I think, though, that Clarence is seriously considering an ORC-based re-issue of an explicitly-BRP take on the project(?), so it likely makes sense to check in with him (before just digging into re-creating the wheels he may just be completing!). I know that people have used M-Space to run adventures & campaigns that were written for the Traveller game-engine (I'm pretty sure some have also made explicit "conversion-notes" available), if someone's gristing their mill...

Yes! TYVM. I think I have seen that + one other; similar enough that I suspect they were taken together, or maybe even the other just a shorter out-take...

Note the new BRP space-opera game! QUASAR: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/459723/QUASAR?affiliate_id=810507

I think you don't need to "stay in your lane," but should produce intro-scenarios (maybe 2-3 in a collection?) that are in the "space opera" genre you see as core to QUASAR itself. After all, these will (inevitably!) form part of folks' initial impressions of the game. If you lean too hard on horror too quickly, people may see it as a CoC-variant, like "Eldritch Skies" or etc; less so as its own whole Sci-Fi thing. IMO / YMMV (obviously) -- so I might include 1 horror adventure in an introductory 3-pack of adventures, maybe...?

I have -- a couple of times -- seen a video here, tagged "Where in Glorantha" to which the answer is *CLEARLY* "at the Skyfall" -- an isolated rainshower that looks almost like a waterfall, it's so dense... Moving over a hillside, & thence to a river/lake. IIRC -- tho I may not be R'ing C -- the real-world vid was taken somewhere in Europe...? But I can't find it now! 🫤 HelpABruthuhOut? Anyone keep better track o' that link?

It really depends on the players. I know players who will not play if they have to be "mathing in their heads;" and others if they have to consult lookup tables. In many cases, I have seen such players accept the help of other players (who math and/or lookup on the unwilling players' behalves)... but not always.

Am I confusing some other cult which is confusingly OK with ZZ? Maybe Storm Bull? Does their "detect Chaos" ping on Gark-zombies & similar undead, but not ping on ZZ-zombies...? I'm sure I recall someone being "surprisingly OK" with ZZ's undead ... Or is this all just my own confusion from reading someone's Glorantha Varying, years ago; and thinking it sounded typically-weird & thus very-Gloranthan?

Except that (rather confusingly) the Humakti seem to have no problem with ZZ-style "undead." Somehow ZZ is doing something different.

What Andrew said. Also, a quick search with Google suggests this isn't a unique concept! You might ask 'round the bitd/fitd/*itd communities, see if any of them have Glorantha-specific advice. Come at the issue from both sides!

🥰 Maybe it's time to update your .sig here on BRPC? 😉