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In addition to this - who would supply the necessary fertility rune? One might assume that the grain goddesses have a fair number of these in their temples but would they give them out to non-cultists - (even those from the same pantheon) or would you need to bring your own?

Absolutely - there you are enjoying a bit o' sky-surfin when a fellow cultist on the ground casts Smashing Downpour from your cloud or some idiot casts Cloud Clear and you're taking a terminal quantity of falling damage. :shock:

Has to be Cloud Walk. I mean, what's the point? OK, borrow Orlanth's Flight but there's bugger all to do when you're up there. Why does Heler give this to his worshippers? He's about rain and clouds to be sure, but why let them walk on it? Also Smashing Downpour - is that in the sense of...

I've read the Ralios PDF and am now clear about the snakes. I think we're going to move. Streets alive with serpents biting people was not what I had in mind. That said maybe there's a St Patrick style HeroQuest in here somewhere...

Yes, but the poor Grey Sages don't get to have the three detect spells they are promised (paper, dragonewt and timinit) so they need to be able to detect something... The other possibility here of course is this is an example of a God Learner trick - "these gods - thery're all same really.." :)

Thanks for these. I'll look up the Ralios PDF (altho' I've had some problems with the DriveThru site previously). I'm intrigued about the snakes thing. Hadn't thought about snakes. Also - what do you think "Offid" (US Eng.) or "Oafid" (UK Eng.)?

I'm planning on setting my campaign around Ophid in Ralios. Primarily this is because it's location suggests that it is on the periphery of a number of different civilisations (EWF to the east over the Rockwoods, God Learners to the south, Orlanthi to the north and the remnants of the Stygian...

Damn straight.

Thanks team... I like your approach Licheking. This makes a lot of sense to me.

As has been said - character creation. There's a real sense of development from rolling the stats to moving through previous experience before play even starts. You spend 20 minutes or so growing into the character. Realism is clearly the wrong term to describe a fantasy RPG but there's a...

RQ2 was my first and true love. I must have been 11 or so when my friends and I started playing in 1982/83. My first ever RQ adversary was Biglaugh Bigclub who killed me second melee round.

H'mm OK but I'm not sure about the low status thing - remember Muriah in High Holes? She was hated by her gang because of her infertility but were still prepared to be led by a female - albeit a human. Why didn't Mujabjab and co. simply kill her if they despised females?

I know this is a bit rulesy for this forum - forgive me for not adding something obscure yet interesting about Gloranthlore - but I've a basic question about how characters improve their skills. The pp 94-95 say you need improvement rolls from adventures/story/session to undertake either...

My lucky 18 month old daughter is getting it for Christmas - I'm just going to look after it for her for a few years...

All good so far and in the same spirit of you-really-shouldn't-draw-an-analogy-but-here-goes Teshnans are pre-moghul India. But what about Vithelans? That's got me proper stumped.