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His children do.

Uggh, how dull! No offence but we [you and I] can do better than that. I've given her an Oslira voiced/centred myth and history [rather than the usual Orlanthi one masquerading as the God Learners], Summon Naga Rune spell and others away from the usual run of the mill ones [someone really has had a failure of imagination], and actual connections with the gods of where she is most important, rather than being associated [Associated!!! WTF?] with the god that supposedly destroyed her. Someone really seems to think that every female god that Orlanth looks at wants to get into his pants. Living in the 80's much?

Is there any newer news, please?

Not talking about the skulls, but about the dinosaurs, but whatever.

Rowdril, is that Lodril with a lisp? Who dreams this stuff up? Lay off the wacky backy mate.

In the illo with the labels for the Goddesses, the labels for Barb and Maran have been switched. Barb is with the Dinos, surely that should be Maran?

Have you seen the levels [lore] starts at or Sense Chaos? No thanks.

No, it sounds bloody awful! It means that 2/3 might well have a penalty, so, many will be ineffective. I want all of my army to be effective as they can be. Battle is harsh and chaotic enough without parts of it being useless.

The Praxian starting skills in the book are fecking awful, I'm not sure why there is such a discrepancy in skill points given out, are they all held back in school or something? I've never understood why some cultures are less skilled than others in some editions of RQ. Bias in a way that makes no sense.

Let's start at the beginning. It's spelt chaparral, and Prax is not, 'chaparral' anyway. But that's by the by. They have a substantive number of Yelmalio initiates in the tribe, so Catseye and Farsee become a great ambush combination. Speeddart can deal with the 'thickest' nomad armour [use your common] and surprise attacking from the rear at night could give you a pretty good chance of an aimed blow [heh, sic] and if you miss, no one is going to notice anyway. Have others create a diversion then overwhelm the guards that are left. So yeah, pretty good at night attacks me thinks.

Fun to use on an opponent's steed, and horses aren't born broken.

For almost everyone in Glorantha there is absolutely no difference. Or if you want to be absolutely clear, you could, just about, get a cigarette paper between them. Gloranthans don't sit upon high being able to view the world's deities with our understanding.

'Making an absolute cockup of everything, like their god, is right up their alley.'

How dare you cast suspicions on our beloved Arkat! Isn't he the incarnation of the great Argarth? Wasn't compassionate? Loving all men, roasted or scraped raw? Carefully choosing those he sent to the rack, or the slow embrace of the Bronze Friend? How could such a man be called cruel? Wasn't he fair, killing only those who hesitated to surrender longer than an hour, leaving their children younger than 10 alive in the city after all others had perished? How could such a man be called unjust? Wasn't he true? Didn't he cleave to his purpose when the good all around begged him for some understanding of the people he injured? Wasn't he single minded in his destruction of all that was in his way? How can such a man be called extreme and inhuman?

He's having a go at the Guinea Pigs now! It might be interesting to have this aspect as one of the Rebel Gods, Orlantus, Terminus, other, as a Jakob Marley like figure in the Dara Happa pantheon? Chains an all.

Do we really need another Orlanth subcult? Wrote, 'Orlanth and Pamalt are the ones who make it their problem.' You probably know better than me, but Pamalt never killed the Sun out of envy, so quite a big difference between the two? Orlanth only does something when his halls are and empty and he notices (Notices!) his wife has been gone for the longest time, he's pretty much a terrible leader. He doesn't regret in any way what he's done admits it was even partially his fault, he's mostly going to find out where the hell [sic] his wife is (has she run off, or been unfaithful?). Not much evidence for Orlanth the Repentant I think.

I think you maybe missing the whole point of StormBull. He's mindless violence against Chaos, fighting fire with fire, that's how he won, not with clever plans or cunning, but brute force. Best buddies mates and pals with ZZ, who's mindless violence against everything. 'Slowly Slowly catchee monkey.' just isn't him.

I knew there was something 'cheeky' about Snakepipe...

Yes.

I can feel the love from many of the other commentators from here. Not. Losing new players is always bad, and not fulfilling on something that was officially advertised 3 years ago is bad, no matter how you look at it. some older players here think they can keep the game going single handedly, they can't. I went to a big RQ con this weekend and not one of the players in any of the RQ games I played were under 30 [and I'm being very very generous in that] That is not good, not good for the game at all.

It's a pity you didn't get/ aren't getting the starter set as I think it would help you with the world and system at least a little. But I really understand your disappointment. The line manager decided to go with the great big book of cults instead of the GM's guide in the production line, so maybe that might change your mind? The only other thing I can say is, sorry you are leaving.

I meant 'I will do it by', but I can see the subtle use of persuasion some leaders are able to employ, by your example.

Has anyone noticed the very Durulzy look Sekhmet has...

That's very rare in cats. Is in a, 'By sometime next week.' kinda way?

Yes.