PhilHibbs

On 10/12/2023 at 9:32 PM, Jens said:

Turns out I guessed wrong- only a single mention of Nysalor as the Illuminator, no other details on Illumination.

Mythology was never going to have any game mechanics, but I am surprised that the subject is not mentioned at all.

On 10/8/2023 at 7:39 AM, Shiningbrow said:

No need for synergy - nor most Rune Magic.

Eurmal's Lie is OP in the right situations - cos there's no resistance rolls.

Most lies could be revealed with a Divination. Yeah, I know, I'm such a spoilsport, but it's well known how much I despise munchkinnery.

Or, trade the spell to an Issaries and get them to cast it. No rune points tied up!

1 hour ago, David Scott said:

The overlapping of spell effects gives me a better overview of how CA healers work. Given the Rune point cost of spells, I'd give weight spells according to RP cost (low to high):

If you've three Rune points, the 1-point spells are a no brainer (Summon Healing spirit, Healing Trance and pick one of the others - heal wound is common). You can be the most effective, letting you summon three healing spirits or Heal wound etc.

This lets me have a room in the Jonstown temple where entranced initiates spend their 10% free time serving the temple, with Healing trance.

The next big spend is two points of Regrow Limb. 

If you have three RP, then surely Heal Wound, Cure All Disease, and Heal Body would be logical choices. You don't need to spend 2 POW all at once to learn a 2 point spell, or 3 for a 3.

Also, should Healing Trance appear in the first and third columns, or am I misunderstanding the purpose of the chart?

2 hours ago, Malin said:

"This spell cures the damage in the locations touched, as well as total hit points."

Does this mean Heal Wound can be used against pure total hit point damage (like a systemic poison or a thunderbolt)?

Hm. Interesting. Traditionally, I've always thought that Heal Wound could not be used against poison etc. Looking back at previous editions, the only substantial change from RQ3 is that "location touched" is now "locations touched" so you explicitly can use it to heal more than one wound.

I think the "location touched" is what led us to believe it is a "one wound only, and it has to be a location-specific wound" interpretation.

Also, TIL that Heal Body restores missing limbs which it didn't do in previous editions. That makes Regrow Limb almost pointless, although it is one less Rune Point. And not everyone gets Heal Body.

10 hours ago, Squaredeal Sten said:

I have seen it confidently and repeatedly stated that while a rune spell is "up and running", in other words a spell with duration is in effect, the rune point(s) used for it cannot all be replenished.

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Is that just someone's house rule, or is it actually an official written rule, or derivable from the written rules?  If so, how and where?

I think it's in "Rune Fixes"...

Yep:

https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-rune-fixes/

It's also in the official Q&A corrections:

https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/home/catalogue/publishers/chaosium/runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-qa-by-chapter/cha4028-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-chapter-14-rune-magic-spells/

20 hours ago, Tyrian Telbenj said:

so no news about the game?

Correct. When there is news, it will be announced. It's probably something that they have to agree with the developer/publisher, NDAs and such.

On 9/15/2023 at 6:17 PM, French Desperate WindChild said:

a good question

Is it even a chaotic action ? I mean what is the difference with cannibalism (human on human at least) ?

Not sure that it is chaotic. They just die, and go to their regular death-place.

However: it's a cult special spell, and the Meld Form has to be done when the initiate sacrifices for the Proteus spell. Hard to imagine a Mastakos priest sanctioning that at a holy day ceremony.

The wording is something of a hold-over from when individual spells were gained rather than learned and cast with Rune Points. In RQG, you only learn the spell once, so you could interpret that as only ever learning one form. That is clearly not the intention. I'm not sure if this needs a Q&A clarification or not, but there is the possibility that someone might come away with the wrong idea.

Actually, I'd forgotten this but @Scotty's Q&A response to my first question implies that Meld Form can be traded (or stolen) and used on non-cult-members. The first line of the spell seems to rule this out.

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This ritual must be undergone whenever a cultist sacrifices for the spell of Proteus.

That implies that it can only be done during a Mastakos worship ceremony, on a full member of the Mastakos cult.

I'd say that MGF dictates that it is possible. If you go to the effort of acquiring the spells, and let yourself in for the hassle of trying to regain/recharge the Proteus spell when you've used it, then a hard-nope from the GM is no fun. Also, if the GM wants a bad guy to have this, then that's cool as well. Killing a PC and impersonating them, that's less cool, but who am I to dictate what kind of fun people are allowed to have? I've certainly played a trickster who would have cheerfully done this if he could, although "Become (Rodney's Character)" is easier.

Also, add this to the list of ways to prevent someone from being resurrected.

p.14: Yinkin is not labelled.

Also... I want to see Page 4 posters. Both Pages 4. I mean, I have posters of them already, because I have an A3 printer, but I want better ones.

I'd love to see the art direction for the Prosopaedia cover. Well, for all the art really!

Does anyone know how the posters are shipped - are they folded or rolled into tubes?

On 8/26/2023 at 11:32 PM, AndrewTBP said:

Orlanthi are cat people.

On 8/27/2023 at 6:35 AM, Joerg said:

Such as the Greydog clan?

85% of Orlanthi are cat people...

31 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said:

I mean, say what you will about Avalon Hill, but they knew how to write rules.

...except that they didn't in this case. It was all written by Chaosium.

v1.10.2 Alpha 3:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ll2jDjWhX-x9b-uTFPnhJeYh7axQlJlWQO_vjRuFwzM

• Added the new skills. These have been added to CharGen tab, but not to CharSheet. If you want to make them visible, then either pick a different skill to replace by editing the formula, e.g. the Fly skill cell contains "=CharGen!$BG$7", if you want to put the Skate skill in here, then replace it with "=CharGen!$BG$11" because the Skate skill is on row 11 of CharGen. If you want to add Shadowing to the Stealth skills, then copy the block from B58:M61 up one row, and put "=CharGen!$BG$99" in on top of the second Move Quietly. I might add this as a rule, but the danger is that when translated, the last skill in Communication might not be a "Speak ( )" line so an important skill might be overwritten.

Known Issues:

• Base chance for Streetwise is set at 5% as this is the lowest. Add a value into the Culture column to bring it up to the right level - 5 for urban nobles and 20 for other city folk.

RQ3 seemed very professional as a game system. A lot of things had been tidied up and streamlined, there was consistency across character creation, if was well balanced, and easy to extend. RQ2 seemed quite haphazard in comparison. I guess a lot of people liked RQ2 because of that charming haphazardness, it had character, it was uncompromisingly its own thing.

So yes, I loved RQ3. I'd play it again in a heartbeat if a friend wanted to run it.

I quite like both of options #2 and #3 but I don't think that they are necessary unless you're in a long running game and this prohibition has come up in play and you want to change it in-world. It can equally be considered a game mechanical correction.

v1.10.2 Alpha 2:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G_HH0TKWG4NcbLUYWoE7Zt5acbLIrRRPjgtABmtRJOo/edit?usp=sharing

• Added Cults of RuneQuest: The Earth Goddesses

Page 127, Initiates of Ty Kora Tek, Prepare Dead -> Prepare Corpse

Page 118, Rune Spells, Gnome-to-Gargoyle -> Gnome to Gargoyle

Is Ernalda no longer supposed to have access to Seal Soul from The Good Shepherd?

Known Issues:

• Transfer from Old Version is a bit broken.
  The feature relies on the skill list remaining consistent. At some point I added a second line for Cult Lore, so now when transferring data from a version before that change to one after it, everything from that point onwards ends up on the wrong line.

1 hour ago, Darius West said:

So essentially an opponent who is skilled in unarmed fighting like a Kralori martial artist cannot be fought by Humakti.  That's a problem imo.

Hmmm yes a challenge indeed. The Humakti could reasonably conclude that they are skilled enough that their fists count as weapons. And whilst there's no specific prohibition against parrying someone's fist attacks with your sword, again you're into splitting hairs. "Yes, I swung my sword up, and my sword connected with his arm and severed it, but that was a parry, not an attack". Gloranthans don't know about the details of the RuneQuest melee round mechanism.

On 8/23/2023 at 9:15 PM, Akhôrahil said:

Even instinctive behavior is something you can sometimes count on. "Large Fire Elemental and run" should often work if you're fine with collateral damage.

Yeah we did this in a convention run of the Runegate scenario. Vostor summoned his elemental using the enemy camp fire as base material.

v1.10.2 Alpha 1:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PkJ_pmoqnYTzVArs39lii72s5HqO2VICChzObZfJNC4

• Added Cults of RuneQuest: The Lightbringers

Cults from the Lightbringers book have been mixed in with the core rule book cults. I think that the ease of finding them alphabetically makes sense, whereas the nonhuman deities from the Bestiary are still in a separate group. I might merge the lists alphabetically when I add The Earth Goddesses, as Aldrya would then be out of place. Maybe not though.

I have not added any new skills! Lanbril, for instance, is a real challenge as it adds a whole bunch of new skills, and I just don't have space for them all. I'll have a think about what to do about this, extending the skills list has been praying on my mind for a while.

For now, if you want to maintain a new skill, you will just have to overwrite an existing skill with the new one. For instance if you want Feign Death, then pick another Manipulation skill to overwrite such as Craft or Play Instrument. Not ideal for Shadowing as a Lanbrili is going to want both of the other Stealth skills...

P.183, Valind.

The Lay Members list of half price spirit spells includes Cool. The Initiate list of half price spells does not.