[Glorantha] Deciples, Feats and Heroquesting

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> From: Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi>
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> Subject: [Glorantha] Deciples, Feats and Heroquesting

> As I understand it feats are learned by heroquesting. How exactly is this
> done, and what level of quests are these?

These are full Otherworld HQ. It is done by going to the Hero Plane and observing what your god did the first time that he used it, and then doing it yourself.

> How does the character learn to
> do the new feat. Is he told how / trained in the feat before attempting
> the quest?

It is not somethig that he does, but something that he IS. Sure, he learns the story of how it was done, and he may learn some gesture or prayer to do it, but
the main thing is to do it in the Otherworld. but he

> As I understand it devotees pretty much learn all the feats of their
> chosen subcult (plus the non-subcult-specific ones) is this a
> simplification in the rules?

Over simplification. Remember that the list of feats given there are not ocmplete. They are only samples. Default samples, sure. But each subcult has many Feats.

> Do the devotees acutally quest for each and
> every one?

Yes, separately. They don't et them as agift (except in Character Generation.) They spend a lot of time observing their deity and learning these magics.

> And the last thing. In the special case, when Humakt accepted the
> sartarite children as his Household of Death, do you guys think they got
> all the relevant feats immediately, or did they just get the magical
> potential, and learn the feats by questing for them?

Feats can not be given like gifts. They have to be learned. The children would have gone to the Otherworld and Underworld and quested for them. The significent thing was that they spent a LOT of dangerous time in their questing, and returned to the Everythign World in wha appeared to be a short time.

--Greg Received on Fri 07 Apr 2006 - 15:34:41 EEST