Pavis and Necromantic Arts

[Vagni]

I bought Necromantic Arts last week, it looks pretty good with lots of interesting undead, loads of spells, heroic abilities, rules for fear and madness etc. There are a couple of minor errors on references to other rulebooks and the seemingly hard to eradicate 'dodge' appears a couple of times, but I think it's a great book with lots of ideas. The tweaks to creatures such as zombies, skeletons and ghosts are also very good.

The book is written as a generic source for RQII and so could be useful in many worlds or games. For the Glorantha fans it contains the cults of Vivamort, Order of Thanotic Inquiry and Homago Bone Stew Cult and many of the creatures and spells are perfectly usable in Glorantha as well.

I've also just got Pavis as well. A very quick scan looks very promising, the two page section on ancestor spirits and their abilities caught my eye straight away!

I shall report more as I get the chance.

 

[PhilHibbs]

Has Pavis hit the shelves in the FLGSes yet?

 

[Exubae]

For the Glorantha fans it contains the cults of Vivamort, Order of Thanotic Inquiry and Homago Bone Stew Cult

Only problem is the spells are wrong or don't exist in book...
...When I first scanned through the book, I thought this looks promising only to be disappointed as I read it through properly...
But there are saving graces to the book.

I'm still waiting for the errata for it.. but I pretty much doubt they'l appear.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Has Pavis hit the shelves in the FLGSes yet?

should be tomorrow I believe

 

[Vagni]

For the Glorantha fans it contains the cults of Vivamort, Order of Thanotic Inquiry and Homago Bone Stew Cult

Only problem is the spells are wrong or don't exist in book...
...When I first scanned through the book, I thought this looks promising only to be disappointed as I read it through properly...
But there are saving graces to the book.

I'm still waiting for the errata for it.. but I pretty much doubt they'l appear.

I've just checked and as far as I can see there are 3 missing or wrong spells for the Glorantha cults:

Darkwall - listed as a cult spell for Vivamort, this is actually a Common spell from the core rules.
Raise Undead - I can't find this at all
Undead Bane - I can't find this at all, maybe it's the same as Counter Undead from Cults?

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Has Pavis hit the shelves in the FLGSes yet?

should be tomorrow I believe

...and if you'd waited until later to go in, they'd have had Sartar Companion as well...

 

[PhilHibbs]

...and if you'd waited until later to go in, they'd have had Sartar Companion as well...

I'll probably pick it up eventually, but I'm not playing HeroQuest, or running a game in or around Sartar, or even in the Third Age, so it's of limited applicability to me at the moment.