Orlanthatemyhamster

@Ironwall Yes, his/it is the period just before Time was created when things were at their Darkest. So just before the Great Compromise et al.

@jajagappa Thanks for these, do you have the PDFs? If not you are amazing! Good anyway. 🙂

Yes, the answer was there [in the three Staffords] all the time, I just needed to do a thorough index search. 

Thanks once again.

A short cut to Power Gaming? 

Carefully.

Kazkurtum was/is a part of Yelm, his Other? So is it everything bad about centralisation and hierarchy? The cult of Stalin and Mao? Beyond socialism and communism. Or the caste system of India at its worst? Both? 

No one knows anything about Kazkurtum?

I am surprised at that. 

3 hours ago, Shiningbrow said:

Propitiation.

Thanks a lot, I know it, I can just can't keep in mind. 

Placatory worship, I think? 

Notice I didn't say 'Who'. 

I believe it is as much a concept. Death taken to its ultimate, annihilation? A lack of all Virtue? 

Is it 'worshipped' by Dara Happans? 

Worshipped to keep it away [what is that word?!] ? 

On 1/31/2022 at 5:22 AM, Sid Vicarious said:

 

Its celebrated once a year, but the celebration lasts 365 days.

Of course he is, he's one of the god Glorantha cannot exist without! 

On 2/3/2022 at 3:59 AM, Shiningbrow said:

Maybe. Sometimes. Depends.

Some people are quite ok with it, and are ok with referring to themselves with it. Hence the Canadian TV show "Freaks and Geeks".

That's Canada... 

And I said 'usually'. 

Try walking up to a random person on the street and say, 

"hey you little freak, tell me the time." 

And see where it gets you. 

On 1/31/2022 at 11:09 AM, French Desperate WindChild said:

🥰

They come out at night... 

Even to Disneyland? 

What if it was only an extra 20 Mins drive? 

It's when the damage goes through the large iron shield, through the iron plate, through the arm, through the iron plate again and still does double HP damage to the chest that you need to worry...

Oh, almost forgot about prot and shield 4.

On 2/1/2022 at 10:04 AM, JRE said:

Not up to speed on DH myths. The Glorious Reascent of Yelm has always blunted my attempts to understand yelmites. But woudl it be possible that most of DH culture just skipped the whole Greater darkness, going to the underworld and returning with the sun? That way only the Alkothi and the nomads (as well as the Uz and the ram people) really survived Chaos, and remember the events of the Chaos war...

I started it no end of times, and am enjoying it now, but only after tearing it apart and putting it mentally back together. 

I think a lot of the SL needs to be read before you can read it. If that makes sense. You have to already understand it, before you can read it. 

On 2/1/2022 at 5:07 PM, davecake said:

the image of Kazkurtum is based on an Australian indigenous figure, who is both a storm deity - Namarrgon the lightning man - and a grasshopper (not a cockroach). 
The connection is more obvious if you can see the grasshopper - they are electric blue - and appear at the same time of year as storm season. 
https://parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu/discover/culture/stories/ 

I’ve visited this exact image a few times, it’s very impressive, I love it. I’m actually a bit uncomfortable with the way it’s been incorporated into Glorantha for such a different deity. 

It looks like a person with no skin, I would have guessed it was from native Australia culture, but no more than that. 

Just to point out, 'little freak' is usually an insult in English. 

So, freebies? 

On 1/29/2022 at 8:09 AM, Alex said:

Now I'm thinking of the assorted "damps" in mining...  fire-damp, white-damp, etc.   Obviously gusty-damp, damp-damp, and stinky-damp are various well-known Orlanthi deities to that particular Lodril subcult!

I think you are getting confused with the Spice Girls. 

2 minutes ago, Martin Dick said:

I don't get what you are trying to say here, perhaps you were trying to be mocking or sarcastic? Perhaps you might actually reply to the content?

You seem to dislike the system at a fundamental level, why play it? 

Use a system more to your taste. 

D&D is a good system. 

1 hour ago, Ironwall said:

Yes but as a bear he is also a hunter

So it's like one of those paintball games where you switch sides after being killed?

Try to think like a worshiper, why would you worship something like that? 

Get rid of the great hunt bit and it makes perfect sense. 

You could say someone who keeps cows and eats them is a hunter. 

On 4/6/2020 at 3:30 PM, 7Tigers said:

I recommend to check Jeff's answers in FB similar topic:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RuneQuest/permalink/1274988552677141/

Could you copy and past that here, please? Some of us aren't on Facecrook. 

18 hours ago, Alex said:

I think this will often depend on how conflated "the city god" and "the local religion" are -- and just how local the local religion is.  For the Theyalans, I think the pattern we see in Sartar will be a common or even usual one:  there's a clan-tribe-ring-kingdom hierarchy, so it's all Your POW Points At Work from the same social and religious structure.  The city god will be a hero subcult of Orlanth (or of Ernalda) corresponding to the founder.  Pavis is a somewhat similar but different case of a city founder cult, but one that's much more divergent and much more regionalised as a religious practice.  So there's a bunch of people that primarily worship Pavis, but very few that primarily worship Sven or Wilm.  But there's prominent shrines to Wilm and to Sartar in the local temple, so the locals would be puzzled (and per Orlanthi tradition, likely angry and violent) if you were to suggest they were slackers in their piety to the founders.

If people don't worship the founders enough then the city falls apart, this is obviously less important in a town and less so in a village. 

God knows how Noshit/Notyet works then, if founders are merely subcult in stature? 

On 1/30/2022 at 2:11 AM, Ironwall said:

i see him not as a god of the hunt but of bears and bears hunt and are hunted

So he's what they hunt on the 'Great  Hunt' then? 

On 1/30/2022 at 12:33 PM, Martin Dick said:

(putting aside research and training)   

Yes, let's ignore two important parts of the skills and stats system. 

Why not? 

On 1/30/2022 at 12:33 PM, Martin Dick said:

Yes, I don't get this at all either. If I never succeed at a skill, then I never get the chance to improve it in the current system (putting aside research and training) . As it says a checked box means  "This means that the adventurer has successfully used that ability in a time of crisis and may, at a future time, learn from the experience." As well, it's not a skill roll, but an experience roll and it is run completely differently to a skill roll, so it's not really a failed skill roll

Play D&D then? 

It's a nice system.