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The USA was going through a phase of attempting to go metric at that time. I presume Greg (or others @Chaosium at the time) were either trying to be forward-thinking, flipping the bird at regressive traditionalists who found metric to be unaMERikun, taking a stab at something that would feel "exotic" to the USAian buyer, or some mix thereof. But I don't actually know.

Also IMHO worth doing is a Google image-search on "reed boat." The technology is pretty ubiquitous, and ancient. Note how common very-high prow-and-stern can be (unless tied off and trimmed short); some of these use the space for figureheads/totems. IMG, these are often human figures, and often humorous or mocking of humans... occasionally even mocking a particular human. One bright morning shortly after the Duckhunt began (when Durulz were seldom found at Duck Point; but many of their boats were still in use by humans), as a new Imperial Garrison was arriving with a fresh new commander, it was suddenly noticed that -- overnight -- all the figureheads had been replaced with figures of notable Lunars... particularly Fazzur and even Moonson himself! All having some ridiculous or mocking aspect. YGMV.

Or just generally ripping off legs, not necessarily starting with the horse, or stopping after six legs... I think there's several figures where that line would provoke "interesting" reactions. Argrath, Harrek, Jar-Eel... My pick? Solanthos. He was the Lightson leader of the Sun Dome temple that supported the Lunar effort to take over the new Cradle, IIRC. You've got the "female PC taming/riding a misogynistic male" theme. You've got Yelmalian horse-schtick. You've got your Lunar affiliation. It's pretty good all round, IMO...

No. But he keeps himself a step removed. The Lightbringers wouldn't have been needed if they'd just behaved honorably in the first place! But even though Orlanth performed one of the most massive F***UPS EVER, he did eventually fix things... mostly.

Earwax. All the way through. You can spot the Chaos when the earwax starts to form horns. Heeeeyy... waitaminnit there, "Bill..."

Given that HQ:G is the current version available for the HW/HQ line, and CS/11L is the most recent release... I can see an argument in favor of spoilers there; probably less so for S:KoH, P:GTA, etc. But even though CS/11L really isn't "new" it's probably the most-likely HQG content to "spoil" a newbie-experience. Once the new edition and new Glorantha genre-pack is out -- and a campaign -- then it probably makes less sense to spoiler-tag CS/11L. I'm ambivalent about spoilers on the RQClassic content. Yes, it's all several decades old... And yet, it's only recently become re-available, with much of the spoilers buried on old ML archives &c... For the Glorantha newbies, it's likely to be UTTLERLY FULL of spoilerbait, and new discussions likely to unearth secrets better left buried... But on the other hand, places like BRPC are just full of grognards who love delving freely into the lore and deconstructing it and analyzing it... And those wants are worth taking into account, too!

I think it follows from Yelmalio having a substantive place in Lightbringer myth cycles, not so much in the Survival Covenant myth cycles. Yelmalio had a key role in survival through the Darkness, for the LBQ folk. For the Praxians, wasn't it more "Star Captain" action from the sky? And Yelorna, IIRC, has both Sun and Star-Captain associations... Edit: then there's the purely socio-political, with their whole "superiority" fetish & purity taboos, vs. the "commoner" aspect of Eiritha. Might if have behooved them to make some overtures, maybe even some alliances? Absolutely! Was it in keeping with the mindset? Absolutely not!

But not merely as a "subcult.". Orlanthi was a secret subcult. Arguably -- because of this Cultic format -- Barntar is ironically a better way to get to Illuminated Orlanth than is mainstream Orlanth!

Of course this bit you're arguing does NOT say misogyny! But (a) you're ignoring how much she's an exceptional case, and (b) there's that bit you didn't quote... "prejudice, derision, and chauvinism on the way"... That kinda DOES say misogyny. Luckily, we have Jeff telling us that the one temple is a bit of an outlier...

<from somewhere nearby, you hear a quiet, evil chuckle...> </GM>

But if MGF suggests to someone that some "heir" of Greymane survives, then... sure, absolutely! If the OP wants maximum agreement with "canon" and yet (as jajagappa suggests) "all are dead," you could just hypothesize some heir (a bastard son, maybe?) who had logistical problems getting to Pennel Ford from somewhat further away.: A blocked pass, a small side-battle (20 leagues distant) that they just can't break free from, etc etc etc... Their unit was SUPPOSED to rejoin the main army a week earlier, but... shit happens, ya know? There's also the whole "fallen and left for dead" schtick. Someone unconscious under a pile of corpses, etc.

Who had that campaign (looks suspiciously at @soltakss) where there was some sort of broken Mostal unit (not sure if it was a "Mostali" per se, or some kind of micro-Jolanti) that was, in essence, a walking, talking, distillery? I don't -think- it was ever canonical, but my memories are a bit vague on this unit... NO, not from imbibing!!! IIRC, it looked not dissimilar to a little pot-bellied stove on legs -- animate legs -- with a tray on the front where cups/etc could be set, and some arms sufficient to move said cups to various external valves and spigots. As I recall, it moved relatively slowly, but NEVER needed to rest, so the players could "leave it behind" but it wanted to follow them, it would have caught up by morning (and still be ready to trundle onward). I don't know WHY the players were eager to leave a mobile bar behind, however...

Very "sort of." I doubt that more than a handful (in total, from both cults combined) could see it that way. Most of those would be the wierdo PC's and Illuminates & such. That said... solar/sky militant purity cults with extreme gender bias, one M one F? It's hard NOT so "see it that way!"

I admit, this makes me envision a bunch of Uroxi priests duking it out in a general melee to see who's the High Priest at THIS meeting... edit: thanks a lot... you may've just made My Glorantha a lot more violent-I-mean-colorful; the force is strong with this meme!

<insert obligatory Barbossa quote>

So the joke goes: "A Yelornan and a Yelmalian walk into a bar (by opposite doors, duh) and... everyone else in the bar pisses themselves diving for cover."

You, sir, are an officer & a gentleman... and a gentleman & a scholar ! ... and, of course, a terrible tease! 😁 We need to know, now, if this content is aimed at a particular upcoming release? And (if it's on the fan-maintained list of "upcoming" material) which one? 🤗

Mmmmmm! This is shaping up to be a VERY nice resource for fans... I'm looking forward to more, of course! But I'm also thinking that (after the flurry dies down, and the thread begins sinking downforum into obscurity) the material might valuably be collected & preserved somewhere that newbie's might go looking for examples and inspirations...? I'm just not sure where that would be ...

Never read that one, no. It's a NASTY little setup there! The nominal "good guys" are inherently untrustworthy to the vast majority, without actually having to do anything wrong or bad... They just make all the Normals uncomfortable. But then you add that this minority says (if they even speak up to say it, since it's liable to get them further distrusted) that it's the "normal majority" who's actually abnormal, being mind-controlled by an undetected parasite! And then... they go and kidnap & torture the Normals... apparently "breaking" them and "brainwashing" them to become more of these inherently un-trustworthy wierdo sociopathic kidnapper-torturers. And even then, the wierdo sociopaths will recover (or get reinfected, depending on POV) after a month, or maybe a bit longer. I mean... each group has an internally-consistent POV. How does even the reader of the story actually know whether the psionics are just deluded torture-victims? I mean... maybe Vance wrote a victim-POV story about evil aliens brainwashing an Earthling to become the nucleus of a deluded cult of evil torturer/brainwasher types?

And Worship!!! For the Uroxi, "Battle" may be the same as "Worship" ? 🤡

Simple, functional. There was a big hoo-ra about art/etc on sheets' this won't please the "need moar art" side of the debate, but I'm kinda art-agnostic... appreciate3 it being there & well done, but not very attached. ]I like this'un... TYVM!

Huh? It's a form-fillable sheet, so do it on your PC -or- your Mac! I mean... Better it be organized on a sheet than just entered in a notepad app or word-processor, right?

Hmm. Lost in Space actually works: he said "at least" 40. I'd bet against Atomic Robo: it already got RPG'ed (by Evil Hat, for Fate) and did remarkably poorly on the market; EH actually disposed of a bunch, I think...

Oh, I liked it fine! I just thought the Travels was better, both as "setting evocative" in showcasing each cult and its fit into the world, and also just as forming a storyline of the character. Of course, the entire POINT of the Cults in CoT is how much they DON'T "fit into the world," so there's that. CoP is a PC-centric resource, CoT is GM-centric. Possibly it was that Travels featured the "main character," whereas in Reminiscences, Paulis mostly seemed to be somebody else's associate (not the lead).

The Dresden Files is very much a matter of taste/preference. It's a genre mashup of { modern urban fantasy X noir detective } but also action-adventure-comedy . The first 2-3 are notably weaker than the rest; the author got a lot better (rather infamously: as an (unpublished) writing student, his professor challenged him to write modern urban fantasy because she thought he'd be good at it; he wrote the first entire novel of the series in an effort to prove her wrong!) . Our Hero (Harry Dresden) is a P.I. in Chicago, and a wizard. In a "masquerade" style setting (where the mundanes mostly don't know of (and mostly don't believe in) magic, and most supernaturals LIKE it that way, and some take steps to KEEP it that way) Harry has an ad in the Yellow Pages under "Wizard." This... pretty much sums up his attitude toward "authority" in general. He's got a mouth that runs snark on autopilot AND autofire, especially when he's snarking at someone who could mop the floor with him. Harry has some go-to magical specialties, including fire; there's usually some collateral damage, such that the first line of one novel is, "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault." Some people love The Dresden Files, some people hate 'em, some are meh. Rather like most books, in fact. 🙂 Personally, I like 'em! It's among my favorites... but then, I'm a bit simple at times. I'm eagerly awaiting the next installment: the author has announced he's done, but the publisher is oddly silent on announcing an actual publication date. Fans are grumbling and speculating (the best theory I've seen is that the reader (James Marsters) for the Audible release has a scheduling conflict, so they're waiting on announcing a release until they can be sure they can release the Audible at the same time (the last time they got an alternate reader, the Audible edition bombed and they had to re-record the book with Marsters)). There is more than a little of "Harry digs deep to cast one final (high powered) spell," but that's really not a summary of the books, just something that happens (in more books than it doesn't happen; but not at all reliably as the climax of the story). But "desperation" -- yeah, by the end of the books, things are usually pretty desperate. Very action-hero-y stuff. I mean, he doesn't ALWAYS "save the world," sometimes he only saves a friend, or takes down a magic-fueled drug-dealer, or whatever. They definitely lean toward the "rollicking story" rather than the "profoundly moving." There's a prequel short story (Restoration of Faith) free online: https://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/side-jobs/restoration