Recent content by Voriof

That was the intent as originally written. If you have the grimoire with you (and that has risks) you can cast any of the spells in the grimoire at your read grimoire skill. Of course, you can always learn a separate skill which allows you to cast the spell without the grimoire and as I...

The Godlearners always gave me more of a Shriekback feel... Jeff In a jungle of the senses Tinkerbell and Jack the ripper Love has no meaning, not where they come from But we know pleasure is not that simple Very little fruit is forbidden Sometimes we wobble, sometimes we're strong But you...

At Gloranthancon several years ago, Ken gave several talks about his just-released Morrowind and how he really wished that there was a "Gloranthan" skin for the game. Jeff

That very, very much depends on the culture. There is more to Gloranthan tricksters than just Eurmal and the Praxian ones (which are hardly accepted as boon companions). Very seldom are they celebrated. They are usually persecuted or worse. Jeff

Yeah, that was pretty much what I had envisioned... the rune spell choices were more determined by profession rather than the somewhat odd runic associations many of them had. As far as I am concerned, cults are very much a social construct and fulfill necessary roles in supporting the...

Karsht has or had a lot of worshippers in the 2nd Age as I recall. The God Learners had a lot of problems with that. I figure the CoG2 book was more of a Thanatar thing going. I'd written it up but I guess it didn't make it into the final publication. Jeff

You mean this? Doesn't fit into the rules as well as it might as it several important changes to the divine magic rules occurred post-ms. Unfortunately, many of the spirit spells in CoG2 were intended to be Divine spells belonging to cults that had a mixed magical heritage (Aldryami and Uz...

There was suppopsedly some work on Eastern mysticism in Cults of Glorantha but it seems to have disappeared. Hopefully, the work will reappear somewhere or be written by someone with a better grasp of Gloranthan mystic practices than I. Loz? Jeff

Yes. It is a lovely cover but none of the cults in Cults of Glorantha 1 practice human sacrifice. I thought it was more of a Thed ceremony, personally, from that cult in Cults 2. Jeff

He should be, according to the literature. IIRC, he was a young, active giant very busy helping the Jolaniti with their freedom from the Dwarfs. I think he was one of the last true giants born as all the subsequent births were plundered by the God Learners as they floated out to the Great...

When writing CoG I asked Greg about the imp found in "Atlas of Imaginary Places" and he said that it was definitely chaotic and not really a Trickster thing. I suspect that this book (and its resident) was a snare placed for the Malkioni in the same sort of fashion that the Abiding Book was a...

The trickster and moon related material was deleted from Cults. I can understand that as Trickster is really, really non-standard magic and, well, there wasn't much moon magic in the 2nd Age other than Blue Moon and some weirdo fanatics whining over the remnants of their crashed moons in...

That was the intent when I wrote it up that way. Grimoires are powerful and highly useful - and very much tied into the philosophy and ability of the School or Order Founder as much as any raw power of that group. Tinkering with a grimoire that's already established is tricky to say the least...

Ttrotsky did the writing. I just wrote it up in good form and added a bunch of Greggly notes and corrections. eeeeeyyeesss.... but.... I do think that some do change but some do not. I didn't have access to the file or I'd have noted the pygmies. For all we know, they become smaller when they...

I believe that is one name for them. There are several varieties of bat-hsunchen. There's an excellent article on the hsunchen folks written by Ttrotksy on the Gloranthan website (i cannot give a link as I am behind a firewall). I think they turn into the monstrous bats. Some branches of the...