Recent content by Zaron

Actually, it took a while of searching through this sight, but I did finally find (before I read your reply) Lesser Striped Mongooses's post that the 4 spells in the grimoire's were assumed to be memorized already. I'm creating a True Malkioni sorceror and LSM's errata was helpful.

Can a character who has grimoire and manipulation start with spells from that grimoire? All I could find was that a spell took 1 week and 2 improvement rolls to memorize. Can one not use the free skill points to learn spells? if so, how many?

I don't know my roman weapons, but if that sheild is not rated as huge (or larger), it would only block 1/2 the damage when the barbarian struck. (page 86 of rule book.) That is one advantage of carrying a 2H weapon, if your oppenent didn't spend the silver for a huge shield, success vs success...

I had an idea on those spells. Perhaps they can only be used by the rune touched (by the appropriate rune, of course). Of course, now that runes aren't laying around in dungeons (or troll camps, or shrines or ...) anymore, it would be difficult to find someone to teach you once you actually...

After your input and some thought, I decided to change the blacksmith profession slightly, an update really. Instead of giving a +10 to hammer, it now (for me) gives a +10 to hammer (one handed) and shield. I was uncomfortable with the idea of 1H and 2H hammers being the same skill, as I know...

Ok, let me ask the question behind this question. Blacksmith gives hammer +10%. I can see that blacksmiths use 1H hammers a lot and are used to swinging them. of those people who have looked into this historically or who have done LARPA or something similiar, do you think that the act of...

Does the hammer combat style, or any other single name combat style, cover both the 1H versions of the weapons and the 2H versions?

The little blurb about Glorantha, second age said " Its heroes achieve power by questing for runes, physical manifestations of the eternal abstract forces that shape its destiny" Runes aren't physical anymore (which allows those warrior-mages to cast spells without dropping a weapon.)

Found the rule myself right after I posted. If the defender does not roll defense, it is treated the same as if he/she/it rolled a failure.

How are Success Levels and Combat Manoeuvres handled when the defender does not defend, either through not wishing to use a CA (and perhaps strong armor, defensive magic) or through not having CAs to use.

Word is getting around about those huge profits your crew is making. You better watch out for pirates at the edge of the next solar system. Hmm, maybe you should invest in an escort ship and its crew. Maybe those Megacredits should go toward better weapons and a better gunner. It's a shame...

Perhaps, your ship's credit and mortage is part of your docking procedure and is protected by a -6 DM modifier to hacking. No port rated C or above will allow you to dock without seeing your nearly hack-proof data wafer. Of course, if after a few weeks, the accountants find that the records...

How much of a downpayment is needed for a starship? Mortage paid at beginning of month instead of end?

Greater Spotted Mongoose, What about spells from allied cults? At initiate level, there is one spell that War gods get, but no spell that is "specific" to the cult. How should I deal with that? (I haven't really looked beyond initiate level for spell types.)

Zozotroll, I'm one who sometimes picks up an rpg and reads it just to see the structure of the rules system. A long time back, I did read runequest, but never tried playing in it. I think I have read a previous edidtion where you got an improvement roll for the skills you used, but I don't...