From: Bob.Luckin@tiuk.ti.com
Date: Tue 23 Aug 1994 - 16:10:48 EEST
Hi from Bob Luckin !
Darkwalk
> On to another point, I would like to throw a question into the arena
> for debate. In all available sources to me (i.e. RQ2, Trollpack, CoP, CoT,
> original rulebook, and RQ3 GoG, Trollpack, Trollgods, etc.) Orlanth is
> given the spell of Darkwalk (which confers invisibilty AND silence), which
> all sources state he stole from Kyger Litor. Although Kyger Litor has no
> such spell, Argan Argar does. How does one account for this???? Also, in
> RQ3 the only god which confers an invisibilty-type spell is Annilla ( the
> spell is Conceal).
> Any, explanations would be helpful.
I assume that Kyger Litor lost this power when Orlanth stole it, hence she no longer has the spell. Since it wasn't stolen from Argan Argar, he still has it.
Something similar happened at the Hill of Gold; when Zorak Zoran defeated Yelmalio he took his fire powers, and so ZZ cultists are able to learn Fire Arrow, Fireblade and Ignite, which are prohibited to other troll cults. CoP states the first two of these are unavailable to Yelmalio cultists for the same reason; I suspect Ignite should be unavailable to them as well.
I have a friend who used to both GM and play as a PC in other campaigns. He's moved away now, but I remember he was most dischuffed when RQ3 came out and he discovered his favourite character (Villa - a thief - and yes, the name was inspired by the character in Blake's Seven) would lose his Invisibility spell under the new rules.
Martin (X-RQ-ID: 5796) says :-
> Bob Luckin says:
> >We have the hyenas - we can rebuild him
> I don't know when I've laughed so long--thanks for making my day!
You're welcome ! Amazing to find someone else with a sense of humour as warped as mine... :-)
This also suggests a good number to use when your Issaries PCs ask how many pieces are left to find before the God can be reassembled; just tell 'em "6 million" and charge them for a Divination.
Lunar Toons
Simon Hibbs (X-RQ-ID: 5811) suggests a Toon Quest. I hadn't gone quite as far as adapting Toon rules to Glorantha, but yes, perhaps we don't need to beat on Greg to publish HQ after all; we'll just use Toon instead ! :-)
Which reminds me, now that we've assigned Elmer and Sam to Gloranthan analogues, who gets to be the Martian ? The Only Old One ? I suppose it could be some Chaos deity who wants to destroy the lozenge because it obstructs his view...
Th-th-th-th-at's all, folks !
--
Bob Luckin voly@tiuk.ti.com "Able was I ere I saw Corflu"
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