Rodney Dangerduck

In our campaign, my Sartarite Vinga warrior, along with another PC's Chalana Arroy, visited The Block. The local Storm Bulls were polite to the healer, but obnoxiously hit on my red head. She learned a lot more Praxian - I noted it as "57 different Praxian terms to describe sex". The GM gave her a free +5% in her Speak Praxian. 🙂

I sincerely hope not. It means the effective elimination of Yinkin as a cult. No PC will join Yinkin when they can get all the benefits from joining Orlanth and paying the appropriate POW points.

I wonder if that 25% limit is just for speaking, or also for listening comprehension. For example, my ability to understand French, even though not that high, is much better than my ability to speak it.

When I looked a couple of days ago, all three of Andrew's books were at a discount on Drive Thru RPG. Came very close to pulling the trigger but I'm saving money for others...

Maybe the upcoming Cults books will provide a listing?

For future Chaosium reference, which they are free (and likely) to ignore, this pissed me off. If the Cults books had come out shortly thereafter, no problemo. Some early promotion and swag is standard practice and makes marketing sense. But, in this case, for roughly 5 years, a select few had access to very important materials unavailable to most, including our group. IMO, bad move.

Agreed. Same for evaluating a Horse or other mount - use Ride to choose the "best" one and as a possible augment to Evaluate.

Several of the better spells, like Ax Trance, Berserker, and Slash, do not use Earth. A BG at just 30% Death will face serious problems casting these spells.

THIS! THIS! A hundred times this! The RQG concept that there is One True Concept of Honor is completely bogus. Samurai concepts of honor are also quite different. Now, rename "Honor" to something else, like "Fidelity" (Semper Fi) or "Integrity", and it works as written. Maybe this is how we should think about it? As for getting the Lanbril and Humakti to work together, a mission to infiltrate a Zorak Zoran or Vivamort complex would certainly appeal to both of them.

Why would society allow these breakers of sacred Hospitality to live? If somebody like that, whether BG, SB, or Humakti, visits Apple Lane, where my PC is Thane, they either leave quickly or not at all. I agree with @kara: the psycho BG are way over the top and frankly unplayable. Why would other PCs, especially male, ever adventure with them?

Get the Humakti friend to kill the members of the Ring. Problem solved. Stop treating cults as character classes or alignments.

It would certainly piss off Berevenos, if the PCs accepted any of his aid. My PC took her oath to him seriously, and squelched any thoughts by the other PCs (which were very minor "hey, what if ..") of allying with Storn.

We have a new PC coming into our campaign who, at least tentatively, will be BG / Yinkin. I think that's a reasonable combination. Not sure how it will work in practice, but we will find out! Note: the player is a bit of a mini-maxer, and really wanted Bear's Strength for use in combats, but we both agreed that Yinkin was a much better fit than Odalya for the character concept. So we gave the PC a Bear's Strength rune matrix as a starting magic item. I had a similar concept for an NPC who appeared for a few episodes.

Mainly cards, dice, etc. I can imagine some Eurmal tie ins, and possibly Krarsht in the nastier darker areas. But anybody else for "fun" gamblibg? Donandar? I know Kolat does a little with tossing sticks. Thanks for any ideas.

Often some stereotypes. Pick genres you love. "Spoiled rich kid". "Fat disreputable merchant" (maybe Sidney Greenstreet from Casablanca). "Scheming political Machiavellian matron" (pick your favorite soap, GoT, etc.) might work for Leika. Or loosely base on historical characters. For example, I think Amelia Earhart works, as a rough guide, for Kallyr.

That's somewhat unfair. He made modest efforts to enlist. Arguably, he should have tried harder. It was mainly his studio that prevented it.

I will often loosely base an NPC, or even a PC, on a character portrayed on film or TV. For example, Josie Wales, La Femme Nikita, or Lagertha (Vikings). In Apple Lane, we have a Mrs Marlowe (Brokenwood) town gossip.

Relativity was a rules change (see atomic bomb) that changed Earth. With the change to reusable rune magic, "all" Sartarite males would join Orlanth and sacrifice 2-3 POW. Why? It allows them to achieve one of mans' greatest dreams for thousands of years: They can fly. Not to mention catastrophic health care (Heal Wound, possibly Heal Body?) and a host of other benefits, such as protection from spirits and in combat. Likewise, for "all" women, going through pregnancy without major pains, and in great safety, seems amazingly useful. I would expect that any Ernaldan, upon discovering that she was pregnant, would either get somebody else to cast Bless Pregnancy, or sacrifice a 2nd POW to get the spell for herself and cast it.

I strongly agree with the idea of letting the player, in conjunction with the GM and group, decide what is their PC's concept of Honor.

@Scotty thanks for the chart. As pointed out by many, the terms are very confusing. There seems no real difference between not forbidden and "yes but". Please consider simplifying or clarifying. Also the phrasing that shamen can join as initiates begs the question of whether initiates can become shamen, which is what one of our PCs did. (We didn't have your chart then)

We play that spells or augments that get you over 100% do decrease the opponent's skill. Given this, splitting attacks is usually a bad choice, so that question has not arisen.

Why do you consider this such a contradiction? One can be idealistic, perceptive, yet also proud and violent. Vasana the pregen is very similar: Air at 90% and Moon at 50%.

Your initial idea is correct. Honor varies, slightly, by culture and individual. Ignore "canon" on Honor. (... minor rant deleted... )

Wyrm's Footnotes #12, pages 16-18. You'd also need to think about his guards, aides, and servants.

Kind of like how we all too often handle rogue cops and priests today? 😞