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John Biles

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    Gamer since 1982
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    FFG Star Wars, TORG Eternity. Love many others but don't have infinite time
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    A texas historian of Britain in theory; a historian of the US in practice. I've lived on two continents and was born in Uruguay but grew up in Texas.

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  1. The Party, all young adults initiated two years earlier: 1. Robby Flay, Troll Trickster searching to recreate the perfect meal he had during his initiation 2. Mercutio, A Seshnelan whose village was wiped by raiders and ended up in Dragon Pass as a priest of Lhankor Mhy (home brew class posted on this forum.) His purified grimoire gave him reskinned Magic Missile as an at-will, which he used a LOT. 3. Bill, a Duck Humakti whose father, a great Duck General, was slain by the Lunars during the Duck Hunt 4. Sanria, an Elf raised by the Ernalda Priestesses, who is now an Ernalda Priestess 5. Thumpson, Half-Orc Wind Lord, who was found in a mysterious cosmic egg as a baby and no one knows what a 'half-orc' is, since he seems to be entirely present. What ensued was a scenario where everyone tried to figure out their abilities and I, the DM, screwed up and had made encounters too brutal for them, though technically not overpowered. I had created weaker Tusk Riders, but they came in a pair of a level 1 troop and a large level 2 troop. So two riders and two boars and that was far more brutal than I realized. The PCs had to scout in the woods around the men's initiation for the year, protecting five boys. They stumbled on the tracks of two tusk riders and their mounts, who they followed and ambushed. Sandals of Darkness proved a brutal power for Thumpson, as he basically vanished just before the attack and on round 1, cut one of the riders in half. A brutal fight ensued in which we learned: The lower access to healing was brutal. The trickster, the windlord, and the humakti all got knocked out at least once. Feckless strike is a really good power. Tricksters in general seem very effective. The Earth Priestess basically sucked. Possibly none of us understood how to use her, but she was mostly worthless unless she used a daily. She was awesome at negotiations, though (Charisma 18 and a +3 relevant background.) All the other PCs did well, but I'd made the encounters too hard. They did win, alert the Blue Quartz Clan, and get help from another clan; next time, I'm going to add a healing oriented NPC (a reskinned cleric of Chalanna Arroy) to help them and avoid any large creatures until they have more HP.
  2. Bat-whispering is a pretty good description for what the Bat-handlers do and I can totally see that basically being how it works. Going back to the original topic of this - Illumination is a cheat code that lets you abuse divine power. Nothing could be more in the spirit of illumination than being illuminated, initiating to Storm Bull, then using chaos detection to have sexy hookups with Chaos creatures. Sure, this means you're occulted and doing wrong, but doing wrong seems much more common than doing it right.
  3. I hate Tex-Mex food; much of it makes me ill just to look at it. If I was illuminated, I would stop hating it, but I would still be able to tell the difference between that and Italian cuisine. It's not that an illuminate thinks they're the *same* in every way. It's that he stops hating chaos (or law, if he was an illuminate chaos critter.)
  4. People incarnating Jaldon can raid Sartar, so I would assume Waha could ride you all the way to plunder Glamour if you didn't die first.
  5. In the real world, branding has been around since 2700 BC. So it makes sense to me that it would exist in Glorantha.
  6. The black ops wing of Project Blue Book.
  7. Yelmalions on a heroquest about Ernalda's days with Yelm who mistake the whole thing for a kidnapping.
  8. It is a great myth. The term 'Pilgrimage of Grace' in English history, however, refers to angry Catholic peasants revolting against the Reformation and then getting killed by Henry VIII.
  9. I'd suggest that the closer you get to the exact frontier or beyond, the less control the Emperor has except in the vague sense that if he gets interested in the Po-Dunk clan's Seven Mother missionaries south of Wilmskirk, he can have a big influence while his eye is focused there. Being missionairies, some don't even operate inside the Empire. Some past face of the Emperor set the theology but right now, he's too busy brooding and singing Suspicious Minds to care.
  10. Now imagining a young Argath painting anti-Lunar slogans on the walls of Pavis and a Lunar minor officer comes and corrects his writing.
  11. Like Ramona Quimby, star of her own book series.
  12. Make it a former tax collecting station from the period of trolls charging Orlanthi taxes for protection. You could find ancient weapons, armor and ancient coins as treasure, troll tax records and darkness creatures who still hang out here. I love the idea of a big 'poster' of the Great Old One (a big rectangular hunk of stone with carved art)
  13. That's part of the premise of an ongoing fanfic series of mine.
  14. Pomatoes would probably cause him to immolate.
  15. By the Guide - Fonrit Kralorela East Islands, home to the goddess of chili peppers, Orandaliel
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