PhilHibbs

Oh, you're right. W&E does not forbid awakened alynxes. Unfortunate wording, I think it should say "Alynxes are not bought and sold, but they often choose to follow and aid hunters." Saying "An adventurer cannot choose..." is what led me to think that it was related to the prior section.

Me too, but... ...but technically you could have a SIZ 2 alynx, so I can see why people would argue that they could. Yep. I would not let an awakened animal join a cult as an initiate, so they're limited to spirit magic only. Or if they are in a cult, it's not a mainstream human cult, and their rune magic is different and not as useful for adventuring. Why would an alynx not be a member of Yinkin? Because the cult writeup we have is for the human cult. Yes, it could worship Yinkin, but through a different mechanism, not a human temple organised the way we are familiar with.

Is his state of mind "bad"? Is it a result of trauma, or is it a result of his deliberately chosen path? https://kingofdragonpass.fandom.com/wiki/Board_of_Nails "Helps keep our farmers from becoming too unhappy". I remember getting that in a game, and thinking "Nail Boarding will continue until happiness improves". So you could go a number of directions with this one...

I mean characters created before W&E was published. No, I mean W&E says you can't have an alynx as an awakened companion.

Weapons & Equipment, p.46: So yes, in the core rules, there is no restriction on awakened alynxes other than only the smallest one third of the population (and what happens if they grow?). W&E does restrict them, which could be a bit of a rug-pull for some. But my instincts weren't far off that awakened alynxes should not be as common as adventurers might like. I would not take away an awakened alynx from a player that started off with one under the core rules. They just won't be quite as loyal and dependable as most awakened animals.

It's not a limb. This would need specialist magic, IMO.

Sadly in significantly lower image quality. 42% of the original size. Some of the text is barely readable. Compare original:

My 85 year old auntie got COVID a week and a half ago, but tested negative on Sunday. She is a staunch anti-vaxxer, but she was just tired and not eating much so it does seem the dominant variant around here (UK) is less dangerous even if unvaccinated. But yes, do get vaccinated, and wear a mask, and wash your hands. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that everyone is going to get this new strain. But if we reduce our exposure, through masking and washing, we give our bodies a better chance to fight it off and build natural immunity on top of vaccination resistance.

Cleaned up version of Andre's:

Yep. Changing the Ul-metal (silver) circlet to Lo-metal (aluminium) is fine. Changing the Hu-metal (bronze) ingot with moon rune and coins to Ul-metal (silver) is also fine. The main mistake is leaving the copper clacks as Lo-metal (aluminium), but to be fair no-one spotted this. The iron ingot with death rune, and the sword, were correct (Ur-metal) but this seems to have been changed incorrectly to Hu-metal (Bronze)! Yep. All we need now is a set of three Redbubble stickers that we can slap on the page!

Not quite - you get stuck on Page 4, the "Next" link goes to itself, as it does for subsequent pages as well. But if you switch to English at that point, you can continue.

There are no changes to that picture of the metals, so if it was wrong then it is still wrong in print. Those copper-coloured squares and spikes, and the silvery circlet at the bottom right, can't both be Lo-Metal. This is a bit shoddy. Clearly the "PDF first" method did not work from a quality control perspective, even though this mistake was spotted (I take it on trust that @Lurking Grue is correct that it was, if not then I will owe an apology to Chaosium). Whoever does the proofreading - whether it is community or professional - someone needs to actually read the feedback and do something about it! *Update* It looks like @AndreJarosch did raise a query about the incorrect element runes, and the colour of Hu-Metal, but no-one spotted the two Lo-metals! So by my calculations a half apology is due. The subject was raised, but not in sufficient detail to cover all the issues.

Sadly the links are all messed up on that site, if I go back to the start I get the German version and it breaks in other ways as well. Page 3 links back to Page 1, but if you edit the URL to http://www.princeofsartar.com/comic/4 then you can get to numbered pages directly. Some numbered pages don't exist so skip them if for example http://www.princeofsartar.com/comic/10 takes you to page 100.

Some people have their print editions already, mine should arrive today so I can check soon. I'm hoping this is just another case of Chaosium being bad at updating their PDFs.

Children born "both" or "neither" are probably going to have a hard time. If other omens are good, then they might be hailed as something special and precious when they are born. But as soon as anything odd or dodgy happens around them, someone will blame them for it. They're going to have to be really lucky to get through childhood without being thrown out of the clan for some misdeed or even some misfortune that was nothing to do with them. So I think that the subject of initiation rites is going to be even more rare than the birth of a truly "none" or "both" baby. There are plenty of myths and stories of children cast out or abandoned going on to be raised by animals, strangers, or faerie folk. And if they aren't thrown out, but the community instead ostracizes their accusers for being closed-minded bigots, then there's an arch-nemesis story seed in that as well.

Ooh that's a big file size increase! Thanks!

Got any pictures of the physical miniature?

Those are genders, the question is about the other two sexes. Yeah, it can be confusing.

Those just allow you to tick the check box, which you then roll for normally at the end of the season, so it only makes a difference if you didn't get a POW tick for another reason that season. Disease spirit gains are in addition to the seasonal check chance. Risky though, and the way I read it you can't just find and beat up a spirit. It has to attack you and then you fight it off.

Depends on how many disease spirits you can find to fight off.

Not sure I agree. Tests of faith and tests of character are all over our mythology - Abraham about to sacrifice his son, Jesus being tempted in the desert, etc. And if you ask your god to do something against its nature - sure, grant it, but it will wreck your progress towards being more like that god, unless you can heroquest to prove that it was in keeping with the god after all somehow.

That's not the ad-hoc group creative questing system that has been teased. I've got a bunch of fan-written HQ systems, including my own homebrew.

Yes I would argue that, and I think many Gloranthan inhabitants would perform dozens of heroquests whilst participating in maybe one battle if they're unlucky. We have the rules for the reward of these common heroquests, but no rules on how they work. I've been playing and running in Glorantha for 40 years and it is a glaring omission. I started my campaign on the assumption that the battle and heroquesting rules would be out by now, and the COVID hiatus has saved us from that omission derailing it so far, but I'm at the point of winding it down until the rules do come out. "Write your own rules" is not helpful. For anything else, where we all have some level of real world experience to call on, it's fine. For battles, less so. Heroquesting, not at all. Whilst I do feel that @Zelmor is overstating the case a little, maybe even a lot, it is a legitimate one.

That's not what I was thinking of... but I found it now, it's in Six Seasons In Sartar.

Can someone remind me where the detailed description of female initiation is? I remember reading it a couple of months ago but I can't remember if it was a fan post, a Stafford Library piece, etc.