Becoming Rune Touched

[Ein]

Are starting characters which are cult members automatically rune touched with the rune associated with their cult?

 

[Loz]

No they're not. Becoming rune touched is an additional step that happens through HeroQuesting (typically) or some other high level cult ritual.

Are you using Cults of Glorantha? If so there are rules in there for choosing a rune to follow your god through, but that isn't the same as becoming runetouched. There are also full HeroQuesting rules so if runetouched is something you're interested in, I recommend this book as worth a look.

 

[Ein]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

 

[DramaticExit]

Just to add (and mini-necro), the question of whether starting Divine (Initiate) characters were Runetouched came up here. It was this text that got us wondering:

Adventurers can become Rune Touched in any of the following ways:
* Divine magic: HeroQuest as part of initiation into a cult, or to advance within it.

A similar question then: just how common is being Runetouched? The S&P adventure 'Initiation' has all player characters becoming Runetouched at the end from a Heroquest as part of initiation into the Orlanthi tribe (not a cult?).

 

[ThatGuy]

I will add that there is another way to become runetouched (potentially in ADDITION to your religious runetouchings). The background event has a 1 in 100 chance of producing a "runetouched at birth" result.

Meta gamer's GM's beware. This can push a characters stats way up with the Man or Earth runetouching.

 

[Dan True]

I will add that there is another way to become runetouched (potentially in ADDITION to your religious runetouchings). The background event has a 1 in 100 chance of producing a "runetouched at birth" result.

Meta gamer's GM's beware. This can push a characters stats way up with the Man or Earth runetouching.

In our first RQ2 group, TWO characters got this result

- Dan

 

[carandol]

Just to add (and mini-necro), the question of whether starting Divine (Initiate) characters were Runetouched came up here. It was this text that got us wondering:

Adventurers can become Rune Touched in any of the following ways:
* Divine magic: HeroQuest as part of initiation into a cult, or to advance within it.

A similar question then: just how common is being Runetouched? The S&P adventure 'Initiation' has all player characters becoming Runetouched at the end from a Heroquest as part of initiation into the Orlanthi tribe (not a cult?).

I wouldn't like to claim "The Initiation" as Gloranthan canon - it was my first foray into Glorantha, and the first adventure I ever ran in that background! I'd say being runetouched is exactly as common as you'd like it to be in your game. YGMV!