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The rules also say that at character creation a character with access to a Grimoire learns 4 of its spells, limited by rank, of course. Now, your games may add restrictions; in some settings, access to Grimoires may be limited by social status or favor. An order may ensure that an apprentice's...

Each Grimoire has its own Grimoire skill. A Sorceror usually is inducted into an Order's school and learns the order's Grimoire. If he manages to gain access to another Grimoire, he learns that grimoire's skill at base. Some orders have limited access to other order's grimoires; the skills are...

Whatever you do, you need to have potions to increase strength. Elric used some when he tried to forego Stormbringer for a few years. These should be addictive too. I don't recall if he developed a tolerance for them; given the society Michael Moorcock was in, he'd have known people with drug...

I would also give out improvements rolls for certain basic skills like candy, either giving them for free or mandating them. For example, an adventurer who spends a season in a foreign culture new to him should pick up its language skill at basic level. A caravan guard on his first jungle trip...

I didn't see any form of divination in the lists earlier in the thread. Certainly the most important well-known aspect of the Greek Priesthoods was prophecy. Now, even though Divination existed in Chaosium/AH RQ, only Draconic Dream-questing seems to provide true divination in Glorantha; we...

I believe that's available from an obscure Trickster shrine. Some Uleria acolytes will pay for access to it. Some cruel Trickters will cast the spell on males who offend them.

Under those circumstances, your character should be looking for a better class of opponents. Your Gamesmaster should finesse the encounter. In Chaosium/AH RQ, you should not bother checking off skills for experience rolls. Consider Cthulhu's stats in CoC: Cthulhu devours 1D3 adventurers per...

Remember also that Waha in Chaosium's Cults of Prax prohibited worshippers from learning more than Heal 1. They're supposed to get their healing from Eirithia worshippers. An Orlanthi steadholder might offer healing to an injured guest out of hospitality. Other societies might strike a harder...

If you take Medieval Christian Europe as a guide, the two skills wouldn't be correlated. First Aid would be the common skill; at higher levels it would include stitching up wounds. At still higher levels, it would be associated with barbering. It would be considered lower-class. Healing, true...

One minor disease from Cults of Terror would affect a random hit location by adding 2 points of armor to it, but make the location unhealable by both First Aid and magic Heal spells. Instead, a Repair spell would have to be used. Each time the disease progressed, an adjacent hit location would...

Is this an example of the association of trolls and drumming and other music? Is there a Gloranthan version of "Midnight Special"?

Note that this spirit is also opposed by the cult of Indlas Sommer. Indlas likes his drummers.

In most games I've seen, permanent magic items like the D&D "Amazing Ginsu, +1, +3 vs. Samurai" were few and far between. In Chaosium/AH RQ, one could sacrifice POW to enchant an item with a spell matrix, usually Common Magic. This would make a spell available, so the wielder would have to...

In fantasy terms, Air, Water, Earth, and Fire may be Elements. In Glorantha you get Light and Darkness too. But that doesn't mean everything airy is 'Air'. Consider that Glorantha has both Undines and River spirits. The Zola Fel is worshipped as a great spirit, and she has her servitor...

Does anyone have a copy of Sandy Petersen's old mysticism rules? Perhaps you can get ideas from those.