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We also have the LBQ if the slain were a king or chieftain. Slaying Yelm was an ill that couldn't really be atoned-for... It had to be un-done.

Yes, but only the truly hardened (or those utterly broken & unshackled by any SAN whatsoever) ask about Gloranthan stirrups.

Lots and lots of lube. Because nobody here has been squicked enough, and now you can't un-see it.

You are completely correct... but not at all to the point. The notion (that I was proposing) was a specific proof-of-worth / teaching event for prospective Full Priests. Not trying to re-stabilize a population in famine, but (temporarily) re-create the events of the Covenant at an intimate, personal scale. Remind them that the Herds were once 4-Legged People, that survival is hard and the risks are real.

Don't worry. I'm sure it will arrive in this glacial epoch... Of course, if the Climate Change folks are right, that may last an extra quarter-million years or so. As always: YGMV

If none of the above work, you could just grab something like D&D "Tabaxi" and add a SIZ and pretty much done...

AFAIK, the covers are the same (I don't think Chaosium announced any change): you have to crack the books open and look at specific differences. ButI don't yet have them both to compare.

We'll have to see (unless Chaosium wishes to spill some beans). 😉

The heroquest has revealed some critical info/perspective on healing the feud -- something that can shift a bitter hater on each side into firm allies who want to end it. Maybe a Telmori warleader doesn't just "spare" but actually saves the child of someone on the RedCow Ring, while (simultaneously, and each unbeknownst to the other) the RedCow Ring-member saves the another-close-kin-but-not-child-because-thats-getting-silly of the Telmori. And so they meet in secret, because honor demands that thanks be given, and things (potentially) heal from there. Maybe the CA can help each actor make the merciful choice? N.B. this doesn't have to be "instant peace." It could (arguably should) take years. So the 1620 events may still happen, but as a schism within each tribe. They may each need to cut away diseased tissue (exile unrepentant feuders).

Ah. I may have misunderstood that then. In any case: thanks, as always, for your excellent presence online!

RQ combat is VERY deadly. It is crunchy & simulationist, and still quick. 40 years on and I still consider it a top-tier exemplar of rules. Hit+locations and HP/location (and armor/location) are integral parts of RQ combat and indeed the setting itself. I don't recall if CoC7e has this as standard, or optional, or not at all, though the basic core d100 roll-under is of course BRP. I'm going to presume it doesn't, to clarify RQG combat. I suggest you d/l the (free) character-sheet from Chaosium, to help make sense of the following... In RQ, hit-points are derived mostly from CON, so mostly peak at 18 (though lucky rolls and minmax design might theoretically get you well up into the 20's). More critically, you have 7 hit-locations with much-lower hit-points in each location. The attacker rolls a d20 for location alongside the d100 attacking skill, to see where the hit lands. Armor subtracts from damage, and armor is ALSO per-hit-location. Some gods may inflict geasa upon a follower to, e.g. "wear no armor on the left leg," etc (as I said above, the setting influences things). The character sheet has a "Man Rune" prominently showing, with hit-locations & HP & armor in each location. This makes for a VERY quick & easy-to-use visual interface, so having 7 different HP tracks doesn't actually slow down combat at all, in my experience. Indeed, RQ combat is quick, often frighteningly quick if you care about your PC... One solid hit is often enough to take a location to zero (or below), incapacitating that location: a leg won't bear weight, an arm will drop anything held, a head will go unconscious, etc. ( I am a bit more generous on this point than some, house-ruling that a 0-hp leg still allows a DEX roll to prevent falling, a 0-hp abdomen allows a CON roll to prevent dropping in agony from the ruptured organs, etc. But that's a roll each round, getting harder each round, and harder/impossible if you try anything "hard"; and negative HP's in a location is still insta-drop. OTOH, I am also nastier, sometimes inflicting e.g. a DEX roll (not required under RAW) on an injured limb, in order for it not to fail under an exceptional effort, etc... ) . Specials and Criticals do things like maximize damage, slip through the cracks to ignore armor, or leave pointy things stuck in the victims. This gives combat an "emergent narrative" quality, where crunchy simulation leads naturally to dramatic stories... THIS character looses their sword, and backs away desperately parrying with a little buckler; THAT one took a dizzying head-shot, and only has 2hp left in the location, THOSE two dropped their foes in one hit, and look around for better challenges... It is entirely possible for a character to be dropped with the first hit, in the first round; even a hero-level character. Experienced RQ players look for opportunities to attack with surprise, or from ambush, to volley ranged attacks, to attack with numerical advantage; and often, to retreat if the foes have such advantages! In the world of Glorantha, surrender and ransom figure prominently.

Chaosium contracts with distribution / fulfillment centers around the world. Last I saw, the USAian one was BangPrint. I (strongly) suspect that Chaosium does not try to micromanage order-of-shipment with the fulfillment center -- fulfillment is what Bang/etc do. I suspect that the reason Bang (and others) can offer good rates is, in part, that THEY work with FedEx/USPS/etc to maximize THOSE efficiencies. It's most likely NOT like a concert/theater first-come-first-serve-until-sold-out model, although I expect Chaosium sends a bulk order to Bang at least daily, and may even have autimation that passes the orders through as they come in... but I STILL would expect the fulfillment houses to re-order shipments for efficiencies. I am only guestimating here, and could be off-base.

Wait, but the one guy Fumbled. Isn't there a "Specially Bad" Effect...? I had thought there was. Am I just misremembering?

It doesn't appear to be thrivingly active, but I'd begin at Tekumel.com -- it is, I think, the place with the most info collected together & links to other resources. The FB page is active, but my recent view suggests that the main interest there is in wargames of Tekumel rather than RPG's; OTOH, maybe that's just because there's a recent mini's KS for Tekumel, so it's got all the attention. You could also ask on a bigger forum like RPGnet, ENworld, or GiantIP, where sheer numbers suggest you'll get seen by some grognards of the Tekumel community. Also, you'd be starting a new thread with a relevant title (instead of one 3 pages deep in a "new to RQ ..." thread). But again, this loops me back to Tekumel.com -- they have a forum there, and it's ALREADY filled with Tekumel grognards. They just... don't have much to be excited about, I guess: no recent posts. I presume if you hung a "newbie" steak around your neck and dove in, a few of them would come to take a bite... 😉

It has been mentioned a few times, I think. GaGoG is actually a complete ms. at this point -- it needs art, it needs layout, it likely needs proofing and other editing; but it's a complete text. RBoM is not text-complete; it's still being written.

Yes, a 2-vol Pavis/BigRubble set is planned. Noted game-designer & longtime Gloranthaphile Robin Laws will be the author. No ETA.

I cannot speak for the other distribution centers, but I know that -- at least in the U.S. -- there has (in prior "big" product pushes) been a considerable time from when the orders begin rushing in, until the distribution center is able to physically fulfill the order. The warehouse folk have to pull cases, open, pull books, fill the slipcases, wrap them, pack that, etc; and Chaosium isn't the only customer they have. IIRC from the RQClassic KS, that physical in-warehouse fulfillment took over a week.

Say "slumbering in embers" rather than moribund. Tekumel has enough content for a resurgence, and avid fans to spark a fire; it just hasn't got widespread-enough attention, nor a fabulous new edition to get some buzz (any "sparks" would need to be "fanned" as it were, to become a blaze). But yeah... not much action over on Tekumel.com or TekumelFoundation.org; their FB site seems reasonably active, at least! I hope it happens for that community, I really do; Tekumel is every bit as much a work of creative genius as those game-worlds with a bigger audience. It deserves that bigger audience! I was never lucky enough. Arneson's Blackmoor originated in the 1970's. Stafford's Glorantha & Greenwood's Realms both began in the 1960's (pre-RPG), though AFAIK all 3 saw first publication as games (admittedly, Blackmoor & Glorantha were first gamed as wargames (but Arneson's earliest Blackmoor wargames were already developing proto-RPG elements)). Barker's Tekumel was born in the 1940's(!). It may not "technically" belong alongside Blackmoor, Glorantha, and the Forgotten Realms: Tekumel was published as fiction before RPGs existed, whereas 1st publication of the others was actually as game settings. Arguably, then, Tekumel might be just the first "other media" IP adapted to a RPG. But it's also one of the few (if not the only) adapted by the original author, who created RPG game-rules and ran the game himself... you never saw Tolkien or Roddenberry tweaking game-mechanics, nor slinging platonic solids 'round the table!

Small groups making single trips on the occasion of elevating an Assistant to a Priest hardly seems like it's overgrazing. If the biomass/bioenergy model is anything close to Earth's, the net grazing goes DOWN -- it takes about 1/10 as much Earthly grass to produce a pound of cow, than it takes to produce a pound of omnivorous human eating stuff that eats grass.

I think it's a "likely to get printed, eventually" item, but likely not until after some "minor" but famous cults get printed up in their respective books (e.g. Pavis).

Technically, I think that honor goes to Tekumel. Their fan base & grognardia kept (is still keeping) their flame alive. It may yet blaze forth again, burning brightly. But MARBarker had about 2 decades' head start on Ed Greenwood & Greg Stafford...

Oh... a Lunar duck strong with the Fire rune? Sounds interesting! 🤣 (which reminds me, I've gotta get going on creating a key Durulz NPC, who I recently realized is a Lunar, and in fact a disciple of Jar-Eel's...)

An excellent point! It is, after all, the Survival Covenant. Some must become Beasts, and live from Eiritha's provender; others must guard and guide, and eat at one remove from Her blessing, so that all might survive. I may need to Vary My Glorantha to make this a requirement of becoming a full Priest of Waha -- take some People who are dear to the Priest-Candidate, make them Beasts & lead them safely from one place of plenty (an Oasis, the Paps, the Zola Fel valley, etc) to another.

One is perhaps unsurprised that Loz can sum it up so elegantly! 😉 Quick question, as I'm away from my books: if I roll a Fail but my foe rolls a Fumble, what happens and does it differ from had I rolled a Success vs. the foe's Fail?

Oh yeah, lots of potential for a Scooby-bad, mundane evil dressed up as occult. Wolves were rare, but not unknown (last verfied sighting in 1930s, until some Italian wolves crossed again in the 90's); some howling, and fearful peasants muttering about loup garou, can ratchet the tension up. Bet none of their ammo is silver!