Shamanic Magic

[Carrotix]

The Basic book in page 62 briefly introduces Shamanic Magic. It seems it should be described in detail in the Companion book. But it's not there.

Is it described in any other manual already published?

 

[Sinisalo]

Yes Cults Of Glorantha 2

 

[Carrotix]

:?
I'm interested in MRQ, but have never been interested in Glorantha.

Definetily I would have seen the system rules published in a different way.

Thank you for your answer ;-)

 

[Trifletraxor]

Definetily I would have seen the system rules published in a different way.

Hehe, I think we all would, glorantha players or not. :wink:

SGL.

 

[Carrotix]

Another question appears to me:

Is Shamanic Magic an OGL part?

In fact it's not in the Companion's SRD :shock:

 

[gamesmeister]

No, none of the Glorantha books are OGL

 

[Carrotix]

I would like to be in love with Mongoose RuneQuest, but it's so slippery.

It makes sense to have Shamanic Magic as OGL and Runic Magic as gloranthan Magic. The other way... what do I do with gloranthan runes magic in an X century Europe campaign? My vikings are very confused :lol:

 

[Sinisalo]

It makes sense to have Shamanic Magic as OGL and Runic Magic as gloranthan Magic. The other way... what do I do with gloranthan runes magic in an X century Europe campaign?

The runequest shamanic magic isn't all that similar to real shamanism. If you described real shamanism in some form using runequest mechanics I don't think you would be treading on any toes. In my opinion.

The runes described in vanilla runequest aren't very gloranthan at least as we previously understood Glorantha. I do use them but they are much, much rarer and therefore rune magic is much much rarer.

My vikings are very confused :lol:

I didn't think the Vikings were all that shamanic were they?. Feel free to set me right!

 

[Trifletraxor]

I didn't think the Vikings were all that shamanic were they?. Feel free to set me right!

Actually, they were. At least in Norway the worship of divine gods was combined with shamanic practices.

SGL.

 

[Carrotix]

The runes described in vanilla runequest aren't very gloranthan at least as we previously understood Glorantha. I do use them but they are much, much rarer and therefore rune magic is much much rarer.

I must say I know almost nothing about Glorantha ;-)

I didn't think the Vikings were all that shamanic were they?. Feel free to set me right!

The way Wotann's vision of the runes is described in the Eddas seems to be very shamanistic. And vikings believed in spirits everywhere living in stones, trees, etc. Even they thought bad crops and animal diseases were the acts from angry spirits living at the farms.