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Page 86. I'm seeing the armor table duplicated. It should be shields. 

Scrolling through this thread all I can imagine is creating a broo with complex and profound motivations taking a critical firearrow right in the bean, mere moments after it's introduced. 

On 8/21/2021 at 8:20 AM, RandomNumber said:

Spot on.

I'm thrilled that there seems to be so much on the way. Jeff mentioned in an FB post that Weapons and Equipment and Cults are ahead of the Sartar Boxed Set for which layout may complete this year.  Given printing, shipping etc I'd guess it will be a while before we are able to purchase those. I recall hearing about a Gamemaster book, somewhere or other. It would be lovely to get some teasers of these books too.

I see why the Starter Set is going to published as print and PDF simultaneously, but I hope future books to come out as PDF's first. 

That was wonderful. I'll be waiting for part two. 

Still not sure how I should feel about an old character lopping off Belvani's arm in a duel...

I became interested in the West, 30 years ago, because you could run a campaign there after 1621. As a person that only had contact with Glorantha at the game shop it seemed like once the Cradle made it to the sea history was on pause in the central theatre of Glorantha. 

Out West you could be a mage constantly bickering about how to create the perfect society, or an Orlanthi making your bones getting paid to kill chaos, by said mages -- though they never did find that Thanatar temple. All with only a light sprinkling of Lunars to remind you how annoying they are. 

Now that history has played itself out in Dragon Pass I want to know what happens everywhere else, but Fronela most of all. I do hope Loskalmi sexual practices don't end up being too creepy. I'm hoping for the Thebian model, though I think Glorantha rich enough to not need models. 

My biggest problem running a Malkioni RQG game would be not knowing the myths well enough to run a heroquest. In the murder hobo days not knowing how to run a heroquest was fine. The only one my Malkioni  went on involved being thrown down a bottomless pit when he smirked while a Death Lord was lectured by his mother. 

Way back when I'd had Kingdom of War ended by massive sorcery in a final decisive battle. When the armies of Loskalm marched into their old territory they'd found nothing but elves, elves and more elves. Rather than become another Kingdom of War (a tired trope that I hope disappeared with the medieval stuff) they'd say this could totally work for us and go home. A buffer of a new elf forest that spans the Janube and swallows most of the land that sent mercenaries against them would seem like a blessing. Coming out of isolation isn't for everybody. 

I'd change almost nothing knowing what I know now. Except I'd have whatever godlearner bomb the Loskami drop on their enemies, that makes the living envy the dead, happen in Earth season, 1625. 

As a GM I wouldn't want my players to build up a reserve of Rightness or to gain any advantage if they did. Always being one failure away from being shunned by society, and the invisible one, fits the vision of Malkioni society I've built up over the years. Getting a free pass to break a taboo because you're got a couple points stored wouldn't. Maybe if you violate a taboo you should go straight to zero no matter how righteous you are. Or maybe players shouldn't know, and have no way of guessing, what their Rightness score is. 

But lots of play testing will be required to iron out the details of caste magic, and even "the Chain of Veneration", for that matter.

I'm just happy more of Malkioni society has been thought through than I expected.

When's she going to turn up in RQG?

On 3/19/2021 at 2:36 PM, Ian Absentia said:

I guess I never looked at this article more closely.  Ken was playing a 12-year-old girl?  And a Rune priest twice over at that.  Dang, they turn 'em out young in Sartar.

!i!

I can't believe I never did the math😕

On 3/1/2021 at 10:28 AM, kr0p0s said:

Is Horal an Ascended Master or just an exemplar of the way a warrior fits into Malkioni society?

Horal (and Talar and Dronar) might not be dead. 

1 hour ago, kr0p0s said:

It may be used by zzaburi tasked with monitoring and chastising the lower castes or interacting with heathens?

Western cultures have a long history of turning a blind eye to what the lower castes do, as long as they're not breaking any taboos and fulfilling their duties. 

41 minutes ago, kr0p0s said:

Its a new sorcery spell that is used by the Black Arkati, but its general enough that you would imagine its a useful spell that would be found in  some version of the Abiding Book.

Ooh, I have the RBM, but missed those. Which ones?

Humor for Talor and Flamesword for Gerlant. I least I think so. Can't imagine who else they'd be for. 

I see your point about See Rune Magic. It's not like someone couldn't just create it if they thought it would come handy too. 

5 hours ago, kr0p0s said:

There is a sorcery spell introduced in Smoking Ruins call See Rune Magic. 

--SPOILER -- Its Arkati magic. Anyone that has access to that spell in an orthodox western church isn't likely to share that they know it. 

There are a couple rune spells in RBM that come from western heroes too. I figure western warriors, and maybe others, will have access to limited rune magic. 

I loved what I saw. Thanks for doing this, again!

Looking forward to the products that are in progress. Some talk about the Malkioni was nice too. 

9 hours ago, Nick Brooke said:

If you're waiting for "official" expansions of Fronela, I think you'll have a long wait coming. Better to mash up the bits you like from the Orange Box, the Guide, Trotsky's version, the Tales version, and your own preferences and run a game there before you get too old.

Well, the thing is, I could never equate the rationalist Gloranthan West with medieval Europe. So everything between Genertela: Crucible of the Hero Wars and the Guide, about the West, holds little interest for me. I've read a fair bit of it. I didn't see anything that inspired me. 

Good stuff, even though I'm partial to playing Malkioni. 

I do like the way RQG requires you to integrate into your local, Gloranthan, environment. And, yeah if you're players aren't into it they should do something else. 

It would be nice to see what else is going on in the rest of the world, and get to run some campaigns and characters, from the East, West & South, before Dragon Pass' history is spelled out in great detail to 1640. That and I want to see if my old Fronela campaign ends up being even a little close to whatever ends up being official. 

I've wondered if it would turn up too. 

On page 16 of the guide it says enchanted iron's magic dampening effect is ameliorated for a specific person that the item was enchanted for, and them alone. For an player of RQ2 and RQ3 that was quite a surprise, but I've seen no sign of that being applied in the RQG rules. What happened?

7 minutes ago, Akhôrahil said:

An easy solution would be that they start to acquire the Chaos rune, and as they go on, Chaos features. This seems to be what happens to the Boristi "Chaos Monks", who specifically tap (only) Chaos. Under the actually really reasonable interpretation that Malkion's dictum "Do Not Ruin That Which You Love" doesn't extend to Chaos, as you shouldn't love Chaos.

This isn't covered by the rules, however.

Having to become, at least a little, chaotic to do it is the rub. It'll keep the players guessing.

23 minutes ago, Jape_Vicho said:

A chaotic swamp lays next to Akem, that would be a good place to start diggin

Dilis. That's exactly where he'd be. 

If you master the chaos rune you get a chaos taint: page 383 of Roleplaying in Glorantha. So if you can directly tap chaos you're already tainted. I want the chaos things he taps to die in some icky fashion too. He's an NPC so I can hand wave the actual mechanism of what he's doing when melts or turns a broo to dust. 

 My guy would be a Borist too. I guess I have a darker view of them, YGMV.

I'd like to hear people's ideas about using tap spells on chaotic things. Does the sorcerer become tainted if they steal air or tap the body of a chaos thing? 

Mostly I'm interested in what happens if a tainted sorcerer, that's mastered the chaos rune, taps chaos directly? Can they just consume a gorp, broo or whatever? Can they tap chaos sites? 

I'm pondering a potential NPC that characters might make a devils bargain with. How bad can he be, he eats chaos...

This just makes me want the cults book even more. I want to know who gets all those sun related spells...

And seeing Pamalt's spells reminded me how much I wanted to incorporate someone that worshiped him back in the RQ3 days. Running campaigns in Pavis and Fronela I never could come up with an excuse. 

The RQG rules make being a Hrestoli sorcerer easier. You don't need to learn four extra skills plus ceremony, enchant & summon anymore. Just master as many runes as your intelligence will allow and augment your spell casting percentages with rituals and meditation if you need to. Losksami farmers probably learn to meditate so everyone should be good at it by the time they're ready to be a wizard. So they'll be able to do what specialists can do. It'll just take a little longer. Depending on how caste lines are drawn, time will tell, if a farmer, or guardian, can learn a rune or two on their way up they might be pretty good at some spells long before they're a Man-of-All, too. 

Argrath does seem a bit off. And if he weren't he'd be the first major Gloranthan hero that wasn't.